I was on Counter Culture with Maree Buscke yesterday taking about gun ownership and crazy law making. Enjoy. Help Fund Our NewsDesk We are building a NewsDesk, hiring journalists and taking the fight to the mainstream media. Will you help fund our NewsDesk? * For security reasons, credit card donations require
The police are forging on with their arms register, assuring us all that everything will work as planned and it will be safe and secure. No matter that people involved in the project are quietly telling others that the project isn’t fit for purpose and that the software selected
Sporting Shooters Association of New Zealand Inc. www.sportingshooters.nz In August 2021 the Office of the Auditor General issued a guide for “The setting and administration of fees and levies for cost recovery with four basic principles: 1. Equity 2. Efficiency 3. Justifiability 4. Transparency The guide further states
Sporting Shooters Association of New Zealand Inc. In a discussion document released yesterday entitled Arms regulations: Review of fees 2022 Police seek to recover the full cost of administering many of the laws and regulations covering the ownership and use of firearms, together with the partial cost in some instances,
Sporting Shooters Association of New Zealand Inc. Neville Dodd President www.sportingshooters.nz Licensed firearms owners do not want to harm anyone so why is $1 Million a week being spent over-regulating us? As a shooting community we are very conscious of firearms safety and practice it carefully and consistently
Neville Dodd President Sporting Shooters Association of New Zealand Inc The ‘othering’ of a minority group is as old as society. Throughout the ages groups have been picked on, singled out (‘othered’) and marginalized, stigmatized for their differences, invariably to deflect attention from some other flaw in society. Licensed firearm
A former Department of Conservation ranger says plans to remove 55 backcountry huts in Te Urewera is “a shocking abuse of departmental power”. “What we’re witnessing is the biggest case of backcountry vandalism ever committed in New Zealand being promulgated by the government department charged with the role of
Neville Dodd President Sporting Shooters Association of New Zealand Inc The 1983 Arms Act that licensed owners rather than their guns was a great success. The requirement for vetting licence applicants, secure storage of their firearms and safety training saw accidents involving young people almost disappear, unintentional shootings decline and
Neville Dodd President Sporting Shooters Association of New Zealand Inc Here is one simple example. The new Registry requires firearms owners to enter details of the rifles they own. That includes the make model and serial number of each rifle. Essential if the Register is to fulfil its design purpose.
Nicole McKee ACT Firearms Law Reform spokesperson Relentless pressure from the ACT Party on behalf of law-abiding firearms owners has led to the Government taking action on licencing delays. There are thousands of people who have been waiting up to a year for their licence to be processed, some are
Nicole McKee ACT Firearms Law Reform spokesperson Minister of Police Chris Hipkins should stop thinking about extending firearms license renewals and just do it. I asked the Minister in Parliament yesterday whether the Government would extend firearms licenses due to the massive processing delays that mean licensed firearms owners are
Neville Dodd President Sporting Shooters Association of New Zealand Inc In an interview on RNZ Dr Hera Cook suggested that since the Christchurch Massacre in 2019 gun crime was not really getting worse, it only seemed that it was because it was being more frequently reported in Media as police
OAP Accuracy in Target Shooting On the face of it, it is simple. The right size bullet has to leave the barrel at the right speed and twist to stabilise it to reach the target without becoming subsonic (under 1100 feet per second), as the bullet loses stability when it
Sporting Shooters Association of New Zealand Inc. sportingshooters.nz Sporting Shooters Assn has called for the police minister to resign over what they see as total mismanagement of her role. President, Chaz Forsyth, says the new rules and regulations under her watch are totally unmanageable for legal and licensed gun
Here’s something a little different from the usual menu of politics. Let’s talk knives…sharp knives. A mate of mine has decided to spend his lockdown boredom making knives. Just after I skinned Siouxsie Wiles he contacted me and asked if I wanted a knife made. Naturally, I
Nicole McKee ACT Firearms Law Reform spokesperson Pressure from the ACT Party has seen the Government do the sensible thing and give extensions to existing firearms licence holders whose renewals have been delayed. ACT has been advocating for firearms licence holders after the rushed firearms laws created more administration. It
