NSW Premier Chris Minns praised Keith as a ‘hero’ after the incident, but the Labor leader was criticised in parliament this week by Shooters Fishers and Farmers MP Mark Banasiak, who revealed Keith’s gun licence has now been revoked.
The philosophy should begin by identifying legitimate public safety objectives, defining measurable outcomes, and evaluating laws according to evidence rather than political instinct.
If the billions that Australia devoted to bans and buybacks had instead been used to understand and treat mental health, including phobias, perhaps we would have something other countries would be interested in.
In Episode 23 of The Good Oil Podcast, Cam sits down with Hugh Devereux-Mack, public spokesperson for the Council of Licensed Firearm Owners.
All in all, these changes mark real progress in rolling back some of the knee-jerk restrictions imposed after the Christchurch tragedy. But National’s lingering attachment to overly cautious policies shows it has not fully shaken off the influence of its predecessors.
Police will be stripped of looking after the Firearms Safety Authority, with a new independent agency replacing it. The controversial firearms registry remains, and eight new offences will be created.
He recorded the sales against other people’s firearms licences without their knowledge.
The registry doesn’t make New Zealanders safer – it just punishes the compliant while criminals laugh. National’s refusal to back a proper review, coupled with Mitchell’s blind faith in a discredited police narrative, betrays a coalition more interested in optics than outcomes.
McKee’s broader agenda, including her push for limited access to military-style semi-automatic firearms (MSSAs) under strict conditions, reflects her commitment to balancing public safety with the rights of responsible gun owners.
The new police commissioner wants to have police routinely armed. That would be very dangerous.
Who would name an organisation "KOCS"? The Labour Party, of course.
You may remember the case of Knob Oddy, the poor family man who police decided to victimise for no reason other than he had made some mean posts on X. I spoke with him when I was at Reality Check Radio. This man, who we will call ‘Gareth’ was visited
Police breach the privacy of a third party in an email to the author, revealing details of the location of restricted firearms.
Mark Mitchell is a G-man...that is going to be hard for Nicole McKee to get around.
Latest gun crime statistics show, unsurprisingly, that criminals are committing gun crime and not licensed firearms owners.
Bryce Edwards, and other lefty lickspittles with an axe to grind against the Government, keep on saying that Nicole McKee is in the thrall of the gun lobby. The only problem for them is that there isn’t such a thing.
