Thread: AR15 pending rule changes?

Pretty sure it says in the act that two of them must be endorsed or in the firearms industry. I know my AO required at least two E cat referees or he won't process the app.

Originally Posted by Beavis

Pretty sure it says in the act that two of them must be endorsed or in the firearms industry. I know my AO required at least two E cat referees or he won't process the app.

Yea thats correct, just got my e cat in the mail this week, two referees that have known you for a while and both have E cat and serving members of a recognised club or organisation. And can demonstrate long term experience with firearms. I belong to two clubs nzda, and another club that shoots military rifles.
Applied for licence mid jan and had safe installed before AO came around for inspection. ( pays to ring your AO like i did and ask about the extra security beforehand just speeds up the process)

Originally Posted by foxhound

Yea thats correct, just got my e cat in the mail this week, two referees that have known you for a while and both have E cat and serving members of a recognised club or organisation. And can demonstrate long term experience with firearms. I belong to two clubs nzda, and another club that shoots military rifles.
Applied for licence mid jan and had safe installed before AO came around for inspection. ( pays to ring your AO like i did and ask about the extra security beforehand just speeds up the process)

Guess depends on your AO, as for my E endorsement neither of my referees had their E cat, they are however both members of a recognized gun club etc, i think that is the more important point. in fact one was my father and the other was my uncle. haha

Im sure just belonging nzda would be sufficient, as we do service rifle shoots at our club aswell, I bought a small e cat safe as soon as got wind of the pending rule changes.
Get others who have E cat help you fill out the questions on the application, preferbly members from the same club who can vouch that you shoot service rifle within your club.
I think the reasons for wanting a E cat if you already own an A cat ar15 will be different, time will tell?

Doesn't look like i will ever have a b cat. Minimum once a month at club would just never happen unless i was retired or something.

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Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Doesn't look like i will ever have a b cat. Minimum once a month at club would just never happen unless i was retired or something.

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It's a pain.

The Otago Pistol Club has nice facilities though, there are like 5 ranges, one of them a 50m range you can use rimfire and pistol calibre rifles on with covered firing points, couple of 25m ranges, club room with a wood stove, great for some casual shooting in winter on days when the weather is crap. 15 minutes drive from my place and I can park right beside it. I miss it.

I wish we had a similar quality rifle range that we could use! Only current one is NZDA range which is every second Saturday for a couple of hours, have to park on the side of the road and walk a km or so down a shit muddy hilly track through bush, pine plantation etc, facilities are minimal (3 target boards and 2 benches), ground is clay and it's basically unusable if there's any rain. Small firing area, often packed with really unsafe people.

Don't have the time to commit to get and retain my B at the moment though, unfortunately. Maybe when I do, I'll convince the OPC to build a range for 25/50/100m centrefire rifles.

Our nzda club in the north is great, drive to the door can shoot out to 600 covered shooting up to 12 shooters at a time, plus a bench and a running boar range aswell, all members are safe and good blokes, members can use range other times on non range days, 3 other clubs use it as well. works well. One problem no DEER in the north that are free range or wild.

Originally Posted by foxhound

Our nzda club in the north is great, drive to the door can shoot out to 600 covered shooting up to 12 shooters at a time, plus a bench and a running boar range aswell, all members are safe and good blokes, members can use range other times on non range days, 3 other clubs use it as well. works well. One problem no DEER in the north that are free range or wild.

No deer worth chasing.

Cheers. That's what I thought but it's always good to hear it from someone else