Buying regulated products online
How the Police Mail Order Form process works, and when it applies to your order
When a Mail Order Form is required
A Police Mail Order Form is required when firearms, certain firearm parts or ammunition are bought online and shipped to you.
- Firearms, parts and ammunition — a valid New Zealand firearms licence is required.
- Air rifles — you must be 18 or older, or hold a firearms licence.
- Collecting in store — no Mail Order Form is required when you collect in person from our Taupō store.
Your cart tells you when an order needs a Mail Order Form. Once the order is placed, we walk you through it.
How the process works
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Place your order online
Buy the firearm, part or ammunition through our normal checkout. We collect your firearms licence details at that point.
Please order before you send us a form. Without an order number we may not be able to match a completed form to your purchase.
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Receive or download the form
Download Mail Order FormOnce your order is placed we email you a part-completed Section 43A Mail Order Form, with our seller details and your order already filled in.
You can also download a blank form here and complete it yourself.
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Complete section 1
Fill in the purchaser, product and delivery details.
- Seller
- Forms we send already carry Hamills Precision's details. On a blank form you enter them yourself.
- Firearms and parts
- Enter the make, model, calibre and quantity you are buying.
- Ammunition
- Enter the calibre and quantity you are buying.
- Delivery address
- Suppressors, magazines and other firearm parts can be sent to a non-rural home address, or to a licensed dealer or freight depot.
- Firearms must go to your nearest Mainfreight depot or a local firearms dealer. Contact the dealer before you nominate them.
- Air rifles can be sent to your home address.
Delivery to a Mainfreight depot costs you nothing extra. A firearms dealer may charge their own receiving or transfer fee, payable directly to them.
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Take it to your local Police station
Print the form and take it, with your firearms licence, to your local Police station in person. If you cannot print it, your station will have mail order forms on hand.
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We dispatch your order
Police verify your licence and return the completed form to us by email. Once we have it and it is approved, your order is dispatched.
Parts that require a Mail Order Form
These parts generally require a completed Police Mail Order Form when bought online:
- Barrels
- Actions and receivers
- Bolts
- Magazines
- Grips
- Frames
- Stocks and chassis systems
- Magazine adapters
- Flash suppressors
- Silencers and suppressors
Sending a firearm to another dealer
Having a firearm delivered to another firearms dealer does not remove the Mail Order Form requirement. Hamills Precision is the seller, so we are legally required to verify the purchaser's firearms licence.
Questions
Call us on 07 378 5665 or send us a message. See also our shipping and delivery page.