Firearms - Law and legislation

Date: 2000

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: H-610-001/041

Description: 41 cartoons on political and social issues. The topics include Jim Anderton and employment schemes, the Americas Cup, children and guns in USA, Pinochet's return to Chile, Nandor Tanczos and cannabis, the Americas Cup victory parade, oil prices, the superannuation fund, the police review, new industrial law and the Employers' Federation, cloned pigs as organ donors, gangs and cannabis supply, China/Taiwan anniversary, air force purchases, Labour's popularity, petrol prices, dairy industry merger, Helen Clark and the Oscars, red cards and the Hurricanes rugby team, Queenstown tourist accidents, children not getting enough sleep, road rules and cannabis law, state agencies and medical records, property rights in non-marital relationships, Microsoft monopoly, genetic engineering, TVNZ 'star' system, A K Grant dies, the National Party, the new honours list, biosecurity, Elian Gonzales and starvation, US bear market and the NZ stock market, President Mugabe, Marian Hobbs, ANZAC day, Australias wins against NZ in sport, Zimbabwe under Mugabe, Helen Clark and the media. Quantity: 41 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: Bromides, approximately 220 x 160mm.

Date: 2000

From: Scott, Tom, 1947- :Forty-one cartoon bromides published in the Evening Post, 1 March - 28 April 2000.

Reference: H-610-004

Description: Shows a small boy holding a smoking gun. A young girl lyes dead in front of him. Refers to an incident in the United States where a schoolboy shot his fellow student. Exhibited in 'The Famouse Five: Manawatu's Cartoonists on Show', Exhibition curated by the New Zealand Cartoon Archive and exhibited at Te Manawa Art (Manawatu Art Gallery), Palmerston North, from 13 May to 23 June 2002, in association with Massey University and the Palmerston North City Council. Quantity: 1 laser copy. Physical Description: 1 A4 size laser copy

Date: 1990 - 1994

From: [Ephemera of octavo size concerning police, policemen, policing, crime prevention]

By: New Zealand Police

Reference: Eph-A-POLICE-1990/1994

Description: Includes: 1990s: Police Youth Education Service. About the Keeping Ourselves Safe programme; pamphlet for parents and whanau. Pamphlet [1990s?] Porirua Healthy Safer City Trust. Community Police Base, Hartham Place South [Yellow pamphlet. 1990s?] 1990: Nissan [and] New Zealand Police. Crime prevention; you can make a difference. [1990]. Booklet (2 copies) Business card for Fiona Shepherd, General Manager Finance, New Zealand Police National Headquarters [ca 1990] 1991: New Zealand Police Centennial Museum. Pamphlet 1991 Royal New Zealand Police College. Recruit graduation no. 120, Bob Walton Recruit Wing, 4 February - 4 July 1991. Police Health plan; comprehensive health insurance for you and your family [Pamphlet. 1991] 1992: New Zealand Police. Changes to firearms law; your safety is our concern [1992]. Pamphlet (2 copies) Wellington Central Police Station; an information sheet [1992] 1993: Harcourts / Police / Neighbourhood Watch. Neighbours, your fist line of support. [Folded card in the shape of a policeman's hat. ca 1993?] (2 copies) New Zealand Police. What you need to know about the new firearms laws. Safer communities together [1993] 1994: Document Examination Section, New Zealand Police. Pamphlet [1994] New Zealand Police [and] Land Transport Safety Authority. From 1 April 1994, children under 2 must use an infant or child car set - by law [1994] Neighbourhood Watch. Neighbours; your first line of support [Card to place on fridge door; magnet strip on verso] (2 copies) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, sizes varying.

Date: 1999

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: H-587-022/043

Description: Political cartoons. Jack Elder tries to explain his innocence in awarding a travel grant to a school cultural group containing colleagues' daughters. NZ First waken from political death in time to campaign for the 1999 General election. A green lipped muscle reads scary stories from the book 'Tales from the Lab' to his children. Refers to research into cancer cures. Infant looks suspiciously at mother's nipple and opts for the scrambled egg if there's any chance of the milk having been genetically modified or irradiated. NZ and Australian Ministers of Health have declared war on depression. A drepressed man says over the breakfast table, when politicians start slashing their wrist in large numbers, then he'll cheer up. Over a beer two men discuss All Black coach, John Hart's performance. Police warn the public of an IBM fugitive. Refers to the IBM scoop of public money for a Police computer main-frame that never eventuated. Politicians avoid the responsibility of the INCIS Police computer fiasco. Media woman interviews state minister on the tit for tat shooting down of Indian and Pakistan military planes. She suggests there may be a risk of it leading to nuclear war. The minister says they'll cross that bridge when they come to it. Helen Clark and Jenny Shipley battle it out in the preferred Prime Minister Polls. Shows the Statue of Liberty with a gun to her head. The caption says, 'tighten up the gun laws America, or the lady gets it...' Boris Yeltsin appoints his 5th Prime Minister in 17 months. The new Prime Minister looks distincly uneasy as his chair sits on a trap-door. Shows and elephant (IBM) being sting by a bee (Bill Birch). Refers to the Police INCIS computer fiasco. Earthquake rocks Turkey, they call for help. Academics discuss the government's five-step knowledge-based economy plan to restore NZ's stand of living. One says, 'Sounds fabulous, except that you can't take two steps across an abyss...' New Zealand Black Caps beat the English cricket team. World athletics is shackled by the weight of the illegal use of performance enhancing drugs. Mike Moore leaves government politics with a sense of freedom at last. Possible outcome of mixing human genes into cows. Petrol Companies hold motorists to ransom with higher petrol prices. The shadow of violence hangs over voting in East Timor. Derek Quigley steers the select committee looking into decommissioning NZ's air-strike capability. National are alarmed as they thought Quigley was on their side. Quantity: 22 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: B5 size bromides.

Date: 1998

Reference: H-505

Description: Political issues of 1998 Quantity: 22 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopies on archival paper, sizes vary slightly, average cartoon frame being 14 x 20 cm.

Date: 26 July 2010

From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-:Original cartoons. 1986-2011

Reference: A-453-397

Description: A man holds up a bank with a blowpipe through which he blows darts; one of the darts is lodged in the head of the male teller who comments as he and his fellow teller put their hands in the air, that there is always a way round airgun licence laws.' Refers to an announcement by Police Minister, Judith Collins, to government plans to change the Arms Order to require anyone who buys or owns a pre-charged pneumatic (PCP) air rifle to hold a firearms licence. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and felt-tip pen on paper, 230 x 340 mm

Date: 2019

Reference: Eph-B-GUN-2019-01

Description: Circular letter discussing proposed changes to gun laws. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Flier, 274 x 180 mm.

Date: 2019

Reference: Eph-B-GUN-2019-02

Description: Circular letter discussing proposed changes to gun laws. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Flier, 274 x 180 mm.

Date: ca 1960s-2020

From: Ephemera donated to and collected by the Alexander Turnbull Library from 2020

By: Bank of New Zealand; Boys' Brigade in New Zealand Inc; Hastings District (N.Z.). District Council; New Zealand Police; NZ Transport Agency; Social Credit (Political party : N.Z.); Victoria University of Wellington; Yates New Zealand Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-OCTOBER-2020/2

Description: Comprises: McDonalds Monopoly chip packet, dated verso September 2020; Bank of New Zealand envelope, dated verso 1970s; Yates beetroot seed packet, circa 2013; Pix Rite-Change conversion wheel, used to convert shillings and pence to dollars and cents when New Zealand switched to decimal currency in 1967; Invitation for Brian Van Rooyen to attend dinner with then-Prime Minister Helen Clark at Premier House for the 2005 British and Irish Lions Tour of New Zealand; A Boys' Brigade Jubilee Trek sticker, dated 23 March 1985; A Sanyo Rally of New Zealand sticker, dated 25-28 June 1983; A booklet issued by the New Zealand Police titled "What you need to know about the new firearms laws", circa 1993; A sex and relationships pamphlet issued by Victoria University of Wellington, which primarily discusses consent and sexual harassment, date unknown; A COVID-19 flyer regarding Hastings District Council rates and annual plan, dated April 2020; A pamphlet campaigning to save Newlands supermarket, dated 1995; A Social Credit Party pamphlet, dated verso 2020; A Firstlight Broadcasting Network pamphlet relating to The Great Controversy, circa 2020; A Jehovah's Witness pamphlet, circa 2020; A Waka Kotahi New Zealand Transport Agency flyer titled "COVID-19 impacts on expiry dates and fees", circa 2020. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing 15 pieces of ephemera.

Date: 1900 - 1999

Reference: Eph-B-GUN-1900s

Description: Includes: 1913: King & Henry's 1913 catalogue of rifle shooting requisities & aids to shooting. 1963: Turner & Le Brun Ltd, 615 Colombo Street, Christchurch. Re-loading price list 1963-4. 1964: Ammunition House. Price list. 9 November 1964 1965: Ammunition House. Speer projectiles order form and price list. 6 August 1965 Turner & Le Brun Ltd, 615 Colombo St., Christchurch. Reloading price list 1965. 1976: John H Mayhew & Son Ltd, cabinet makers, 86 Pururu Street Rotorua. Flier advertising gun cabinet. Raymond J Carvell. Carvell's antique gun catalogue no. 5, Spring 1976 1981: Raymond J Carvell, licensed firearms dealer, Howick Auckland. Catalogue no 15. Winter 1981. 1982: Belmont Firearms. Invitation to tender for the sale of collectors and modern firearms, holsters & a[c]coutrements. Tenders close 10 August 1982. Belmont Firearms. Winter price list June/July 1982 1993: Warning! Don't do your client a disservice. Philip Alpers = Boycott [Call for a boycott of Bond & Bond "Electric City" chain of stores, because Philip Alpers (Spokesperson for an anti-gun pressure group) is their advertising frontman Fort Taiaroa historic display and Armstrong disappearing gun. Dunedin, New Zealand [tourist fact sheet] 1996: Sportways Gun Shed. Duckshooters catalogue & price list 1996. Urgent urgent. Gun laws. Only a few days remain to have your say on New Zealand's gun laws. Flier with photographs of Jo Winter and Liz Parker-McKibbin (2 copies) Fact sheet; guns in New Zealand. Philip Alpers, October 1996. VIC Fact sheet.(2 copies) Quantity: 8 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) programmes. 9 sales catalogues. Physical Description: Booklets and fliers, sizes varying up to 330 mm.

Date: 1989

From: Bromhead, Peter 1933- :[25 original cartoons published in the Auckland Star in September and October, 1989.]

Reference: A-225-259

Description: Cartoon shows a man in a NZ hat dubiously looking at a line in the ground that separates him from an Uncle Sam figure armed with several machine guns, and pistols in holsters. This highlights the differences in the gun laws and their rationales between New Zealand and America. Other Titles - September Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, on card 172 x 261 mm.

Date: [1960-1980]

From: O'Connor, Peter Selwyn, 1926-1994 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5981-3

Description: Paper, `Arms control in New Zealand, 1845-1930' and `Firearms policy' (two papers) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 2005

From: Hubbard, James, 1949-: Digital caricatures and cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0006142

Description: Shows George Hawkins, the Minister of Police, sitting at his desk addressing the issue of the Maori activist Tame Iti. In front of him is two baskets 'Iti' and 'Outi'. The 'Iti' basket is full while the other basket is empty. In the window behind Hawkins is Tame Iti pulling faces. Refers to the 2005 incident where during a powhiri at a Waitangi Tribunal hearing Tame Iti fired a shotgun into a flag in close promixity to people. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2007

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0009710

Description: Shows an American cowboy pulling a face in the target of a gun sight. Refers to American gun laws. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Winter, Mark, 1958- : Digital cartoons published in the Southland Times and other papers

Reference: DCDL-0014809

Description: The cartoon shows an outstretched arm that represents the 'armed police debate' holding a gun. Text above reads 'Is there enough ammunition?' and small text below reads 'jumping the gun?' A second version is the same as the first but does not include the 'jumping the gun?' phrase. A third version has the words 'Jumping the gun?' above and the words 'Armed police' printed on the arm and a fourth version includes a Martin Amis quotation reading 'Bullets cannot be recalled, they cannot be uninvented, but they can be taken out of the gun'. Refers to the debate about how far New Zealand police should be armed. A senior Australian firearms instructor believes police feel safer carrying guns, but an anti-gun activist fears arming officers will lead New Zealand down a "slippery slope". Quantity: 4 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Reference: DCDL-0014883

Description: The cartoon shows Minister of Police Judith Collins as a sheriff riding a fat pony. She carries a large pop gun which has the words 'New gun law' printed on it and she says 'Me an' this baby gonna clean the town up good!!' Text reads 'Sheriff Collins ... and the show pony'. Refers to people with air-guns being required to have a gun licence. Judith Collins has announced that the Government will reclassify pre-charged pneumatic air rifles so that only people over 16 years old and who have a gun licence, or are supervised by someone with a licence, can own or possess them. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-: Digital cartoons published in New Zealand Herald

Reference: DCDL-0015370

Description: A man holds up a bank with a blowpipe through which he blows darts; one of the darts is lodged in the head of the male teller who comments as he and his fellow teller put their hands in the air, that there is always a way round airgun licence laws.' Refers to an announcement by Police Minister, Judith Collins, to government plans to change the Arms Order to require anyone who buys or owns a pre-charged pneumatic (PCP) air rifle to hold a firearms licence. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

From: Moreu, Michael, 1969-: [Digital cartoons published in the Christchurch Press and Fairfax Media]

Reference: DCDL-0010908

Description: Two American policemen survey a crime scene that has been cordoned off and see several chalk outlines of bodies. One of the policemen comments that the killer went on this rampage because of all the publicity over shooting rampages that he believed would cause his guns to be taken away. Refers to the not uncommon incidence of mass shootings in the U.S. Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1997

From: Moir, Alan, 1947- :Three laser copies of original cartoons donated for the New Zealand Cartoon Archive auction 6 November 1997.

Reference: H-464-003

Description: The cartoon shows a man cleaning a gun at a table. He has a patch on his arm which reads, "guns don't kill". His wife, who is holding a baby, is looking on with great concern. Refers to firearms and the mentality of their owners. Inscriptions: Verso - bottom left - Signed by the cartoonist. Quantity: 1 laser copy. Physical Description: Laser copy A4 size

Date: 2009

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0010919

Description: 'The Underzone' cartoon strip. The Statue of Liberty holds the 'U.S. gun laws in one hand and fires a gun from the other at a fleeing group of people. Refers to the struggle in the United States for tougher gun laws and the intransigent stance of the pro-gun lobby. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).