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 […]
Government Priorities Are Wrong
In announcing an additional $562 Million funding for police, outgoing Police Minister Poto Williams tries to give the impression that she is finally getting tough on criminals. However as Chaz Forsyth, President of the Sporting Shooters Association of New Zealand points out “that is all smoke and mirrors” $94 Million of this extra funding is […]
Why take our tools of the trade? A Wairarapa perspective.
“Minister Poto Williams is incompetent & out of touch” “Owning firearms may not be a right, … but it’s not a privilege”.
We need Gang Control NOT Gun Control
Appearing on News Talk ZB in response to reports of two more gang related shooting incidents in Wairoa, and the failure of people to report them, Police Association President Chris Cahill claimed “It’s why we’ve been arguing for so long about the need to have much better gun control in New Zealand because this is […]
The Public need to know the truth. # 28
Propaganda is communication that is used to influence or persuade an audience to further an agenda. It is a political tool and we’ve seen it used powerfully during the recent years by our government. Truth is not necessarily its goal or purpose, highlighted by the claim of our PM that she was removing “assault rifles” […]
$208 Million to satisfy government curiosity (?!)
On Sunday the government announced it will spend an extra $ 562 Million on the police. “Much of the money is focused on firearms, with $208m being spent establishing a new Firearms Business Unit within police, that will oversee the new Firearms Register.” The stated reason for the firearms register is because “we don’t know […]
NOW THE TRUTH WILL OUT
The sporting shooters Association of New Zealand welcomes the news that the Coronial Enquiry into the 2019 Christchurch terrorist attack will consider the matter of how the shooter was issued a firearm licence. As Sporting Shooters media Director Rob Cope Williams stated “We know that immediately after the incident police claimed they were not at […]
