Police Taking a Year to Renew a Firearms Licence
Why is it taking so long (12 months or more) for police to renew a firearms licence? Could it be that Police are swamped in a mess of their own making. A more important question is why is it the job of Police to renew a licence? These questions are being asked by responsible firearm […]
POLICE INTRANSIGENCE?
The persistence with which police are delaying the issue of new firearm licences and the renewal of existing ones (a whole year to just renew!!) has spurred a Member of Parliament to question the Police Minister about the delays. We applaud the improved vetting now being undertaken by the Police after their disgraceful failures of […]
COMMONWEALTH GAMES – no shooting competitors
New Zealand athletes are making their mark at the Commonwealth Games and we wish our Kiwi competitors every success. On past history, more success would have been expected, had the shooting sports been included in these Commonwealth games, but a decision of the hosts, (living in the former ‘nation of riflemen’), not to hold any […]
Full firearm registration – a colossal central government waste of taxpayers’ money which can never ‘work’
Recent claims made to the effect that the implementation of a firearm registration system will contribute to a reduction in violence with firearms is nonsense. Comparison with motor vehicle registration reminds us of the 20,000 motor vehicles reportedly stolen annually, some of which are known to be used in violent crime, and to the 10,000 […]
Sporting Shooters condemn mass youth walkout from Parliament
If the youth walkout from Parliament of aspiring MPs who refused to listen to a speech about firearms is an example of how our future MP’s think and act, we should be concerned, says Sporting Shooters Association President Neville Dodd. Lacking moral fibre, lacking the ability to listen to unpleasant truths and instead allowing their […]
Gun Control Advocate Dr Hera Cook wants to ban advertising of firearms
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 cracked down on gangs. She then went on to advocate the banning of advertising of […]
COLFO Worried Police Have Misinformed Another Minister
Press Release: COLFO The Council of Licensed Firearm Owners (COLFO) says the new Police Minister, Chris Hipkins, should ask the Police for evidence on how gangs are obtaining firearms. Research previously released by COLFO from Police intelligence reports shows Police have no idea where criminals get 82% of their firearms. COLFO Spokesperson Hugh Devereux-Mack says […]
“Keeping us safe?”
Superintendent Karyn Malthus says, ‘Keeping firearms owners safe is a key focus for Police’. Yeah Right! “Safe from who?”, asks Neville Dodd President of the Sporting Shooters Association. From our perspective the biggest threat and the most damage to firearm owners in New Zealand unquestionably comes from the present government and Police. Between them they have […]
Firearms License Security Breach – it’s worse than initially revealed
The report in the NZ Herald today that the documents stolen from the abandoned Auckland Central Police Station in May actually spanned a much longer time frame, 2003 to 2018, has further angered licensed firearm owners. As Sporting Shooters President Neville Dodd explains “This is a very serious security breach of sensitive information which now […]
Why is Auckland so bad?
Greater Auckland has the lowest rate of legal firearm ownership in the country with less than 3 % of the population being licensed, compared with 10.48 % of the population being licensed to own firearms in Southland. Yet South Auckland has a far higher crime rate of 5.8 robbery offences per 10,000 residents when compared […]
POLICE INCOMPETENCE PUTS FIREARM OWNERS AT RISK
The revelation that documents stolen from an abandoned Auckland police station contained the names and addresses of licensed firearm owners has outraged gun owners. Said Chaz Forsyth, President of the Sporting Shooters Association, “The fact that these documents have lain in an empty police station for several years, shows great incompetence on the part of […]
P.M.s tour promoting NZ or herself?
Headlined as a “trade mission”, the Prime Minister’s tour of the USA seems to be more focused on what she has done with respect to gun laws and climate change than to trade. The door opened for her as her arrival into the States coincided with a school massacre enabling her to wallow in her […]
A Gun Register won’t stop gang shootings
Following the latest horrendous Texas school shooting our Prime Minister is receiving accolades while visiting the US for her decisive action to ban semi-automatics following our own March 2019 Christchurch massacre. Meanwhile back here in New Zealand our Police Minister Hon Poto Williams believes the spate of 13 gang related shootings across Auckland in the […]
Seven Shooting Incidents across Auckland in the past 24 hours
Wednesday, May 25, 2022 @ 17:30 hr President of the Sporting Shooters Association, Chaz Forsyth says “this level of gang violence in our biggest city is a clear indication, that all the Government firearm legislation since March 2019 has been a complete failure – to say nothing of a total waste of several hundred million […]
“We are One” – but really we are not
Monday, May 23, 2022 @ 21:30 hr ‘We Are One’ was the catch cry after the Christchurch Mosque shootings. Some consequences of that tragedy made a mockery of what unity we may have had, when the NZ Government and the NZ Police began targeting responsible, law abiding NZ firearms owners and stripping them of their […]
