Thread: a cat endorsed onto your e cat

Originally Posted by NSA

The controversy surrounding the use of the alphabet by police is old hat and has been around since June 2009. See the link in my previous post if you'd like to read it for yourself.

NSA - After reading the court summary of that particular case (https://forms.justice.govt.nz/search...c5bcc1d08b.pdf ) you have highlighted, there is nothing there that indicates, to me, that the licence catagories/endorsements (A, C, E etc) are no longer relevant or as you have put it, just letters of the alphabet.
In fact it stated that a FAL holder is required to obtain those particular licence endorsements/catagories under the arms act to be able to hold 1 of those particular weapons.
The Judge's decision of that case has also brought up the issue of then each individual MSSA or pistol has to have a separate endorsement rather than 1 particular endorsement to cover all/any weapons classed as needing a particular licence endorsement.

And those licence endorsements were brought about in 1992 when the Arms Act was amended after the events at Aramoana. (paragraph 43)

What, I think, you have highlighted or brought to our attention is the defendants application(s) which was refused/denied by the Judge in his ruling.



There is obviously still a lot to do and sort out.

So rather than jumping to conclusions over this issue, I'll wait till the proper authorities inform us of the actual changes to the FAL regulations.