Thread: Does everyone here love the current NZ firearms laws?

I think the important thing is we all stress the things that are important to us, the danger in reading other peoples submissions is the potential for everything to end up sounding the same. For example, I fully support my fellow shooters being able to use semi autos for 3gun etc. But it's not important to me personally. What I do know about is the need for semi autos for pest control, as even the best shooters are unlikely to knock over 20 or 30 goats with 10rd mags in bolt action rifles. I can quantify this by the approx $250,000 in losses I've had from only a reasonably small number of transient feral pests on my small farm, and if we multiply that over other similar land use regions the economic and ecological cost is horrifying. I feel the case for wider access to semi autos for pest control is easily made. I thought hard about expressing support for other shooting disciplines but decided that if I had added some tacky "and I think 3gun guys should be able to get E cat back too" it would have sounded inauthentic, and reduce the value of the submission. Far better for other people passionate about sports shooting to stress the 3gun issues, or service rifle, or whatever.

I suspect a lot of us will be more or less happy with a large percentage of the law, we just need to stress the things that are important to us individually, hoping for the best overall outcome.