Tuesday, 25 March 2025
Vote: Bills — Arms (Shooting Clubs, Shooting Ranges, and Other Matters) Amendment Bill
— Third Reading
🗳️ That the Arms (Shooting Clubs, Shooting Ranges, and Other Matters) Amendment Bill be now read a third time
Moved by
Nicole McKee
(ACT New Zealand — List Member)
DAN BIDOIS (National—Northcote): This is a good bill. It’s fit for purpose, it returns to practical common-sense regulations, it balances the needs of personal freedoms of law-abiding citizens versus the safety and regulations required. All three... Read more →
📋 We've linked this vote to our
“Streamlined shooting club and range regulation”
policy - our best judgment is that a vote for this is a vote
for Streamlined shooting club and range regulation.
Third Reading — this is the last vote a bill needs to
pass before it's sent off to become law. Earlier votes (first reading, second reading, and
any votes on amendments along the way) decide what the bill looks like and whether it
keeps moving forward, but this is the one that actually decides whether it happens at all.
✓ Passed by a narrow margin
(68 Ayes – 55 Noes)
Hansard didn't name individual MPs for this vote, only how each party voted overall, so
there's no per-member breakdown to show here.
🏛️ Party breakdown
| Party | Aye | No |
|---|---|---|
| ACT New Zealand | 11 | 0 |
| Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand | 0 | 15 |
| New Zealand First | 8 | 0 |
| New Zealand Labour | 0 | 34 |
| New Zealand National | 49 | 0 |
| Te Pāti Māori | 0 | 6 |