- An external review shows the firearms registry is keeping people safe, says the authority
- The ACT Party claims the review is not good enough and has invoked the “agree to disagree” clause in its coalition agreement
- The NZ Firearms Registry was established in 2023 in response to the Christchurch mosque attacks
Just adding on to this, I found this study of Australia’s firearm reform.
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Fatal-Firearm-Incidents-Before-and-After-1996-Chapman-Stewart/9146a5543654d64227c688abc8a1a821f665039c
Now this could easily be attributed to the other changes made. The study was not looking specifically at a register but at all the changes made:
I would welcome anyone that can find a study on gun registration independent of other changes, this is the closest I have found: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/85-002-x/2022001/article/00009-eng.pdf
It shows after Canada ended registration for rifles and similar in 2012 gun crime rates slowly rose after slowly falling up to that point, but I am not convinced this is related (and the document makes no connection as far as I can tell). Canada still registers hand guns and similar, which are the main guns used in crime, so this is in no way definitive one way or the other.