Thread: Required to justify the number of firearms you own?

Originally Posted by timattalon

Reasons
Rifle 1- I like that one.
Rifle 2- And that one.
Rifle 3&4- And those two make a nice pair.
Rifle 5-And that one is great in the bush,
Rifle 6-And that one is better on the tops.
Shotgun 1- I like that one.
Shotgun 2-I like that one too.
Shotgun 3- This one is fun to shoot,
Rifle 7-and this one has enough recoil to remind us we are all alive.
Rifle 8-I like the noise this one makes,
Rifle 9- (rimfire) and that one is cheaper to shoot.
Rifle10- The next one is my wifes favourite
Rifle 11,12,13 and 14 - Looking after a mates ones while he is away...

etc
etc
etc

You forgot reason #15 “That one gets jealous of 1 and keeps 2-4 in line”

Originally Posted by Sideshow

You forgot reason #15 “That one gets jealous of 1 and keeps 2-4 in line”

Sounds like ex lovers to me? You could just use the same list

Originally Posted by mimms2

Works for me...but jeeez,
That's been a few passes 'round the sun...you'd be able to tool up the district!

You were one of the original contributors to this thread. Much changed in the last five


ikr

More has changed in the past five years, concerning my hobby, than at any other time in my life,

Originally Posted by dogmatix

If the Police are rewriting the Arms Code, it looks like the promised independent agency to administer the Act is as likely as 100,000 State homes being built and the light rail down Dominion Road running in my lifetime.

Yeah, but not delivering light rail is something that we want, it's a stupid idea.

Originally Posted by Danger Mouse

Yeah, but not delivering light rail is something that we want, it's a stupid idea.

lol LFO are not a hive mind. I'd personally love decent light rail at an affordable price with decent times and efficiency.

Originally Posted by mimms2

lol, that should be jokes thread... you know it's the government, right?

Light rail down dominion road is insane

Originally Posted by Danger Mouse

Light rail down dominion road is insane

I will go out on a limb and suggest that fewer Aucklanders use public commuter transport than those who have caught Covid-19. Those that do should get a Dodge Ram or Chevrolet Silverado and drive to work. Ha ha ha ha

Originally Posted by Russian 22.

lol LFO are not a hive mind. I'd personally love decent light rail at an affordable price with decent times and efficiency.

Out of interest - are you a user of the existing rail network? If you were looking for affordable price, decent times and efficiency I suggest that the current network fails in all your stated measures - and any additions to the existing will suffer the same faults and foibles. The rest of the country couldn't give a fat rat's arse either.

Originally Posted by Russian 22.

lol LFO are not a hive mind. I'd personally love decent light rail at an affordable price with decent times and efficiency.

A bit off topic but .....

Our biggest issue with commuter transport, especially here in Chch is population density. Auckland is in a similar position but being a denser population has some advantages.

Rail works when you have larger numbers of people in one place who transport to another place regularly. Chch has a buggered central city so most people work everywhere else and live elsewhere...so we are not all at the same starting point and are not all going to the same place. As for efficiency, I used to live 25km from where I worked. If I cycle to work, it took me just over an hour on the pushbike, If I took the motorbike it took about 35 minutes, (Car was fractionally longer) If I caught the bus it took me 1 hour 15 minutes...AND the bus stopped right outside work at about the same time as I finished. IE If I biked home I would be leaving at almost the same time as the bus....... In other words for a distance of 25km I was able to match the bus for speed with a bicycle. I could understand this if the distances were different, but both are almost the same route and mostly a straight line to Woodend....The first few Ks I stayed off the main roads and would reach the junction with the bus route about the same time as the bus....From there I would pretty much take the bus route....It would pass me on the road then I would pass him at the next stop etc...

If Chch had a larger population then public transport would start to make sense. I heard one councillor state "it worked in big cities over seas so why wont it work here? " I do not think she understood or realised what city means overseas. She used the trains in New York as an example. For NY they have 16 times Chch population (8.4m) which is 1.6 times the NZ population living in an area HALF the size of Chch. So for every property in Chch that houses a family of 5, that same land space would have to contain 80 people. Ever block in the city that had 20 houses on it with about 4 or 5 people in each that houses about 90 people would need to home nearly 1500 people. They say there is a McDonalds every 100m in these cities...what they don't tell you is there are enough people living within 50 metres of that building to make that a viable business model....

Originally Posted by timattalon

Rifle 1- I like that one.
Rifle 2- And that one.
Rifle 3&4- And those two make a nice pair.
Rifle 5-And that one is great in the bush,
Rifle 6-And that one is better on the tops.
Shotgun 1- I like that one.
Shotgun 2-I like that one too.
Shotgun 3- This one is fun to shoot,
Rifle 7-and this one has enough recoil to remind us we are all alive.
Rifle 8-I like the noise this one makes,
Rifle 9- (rimfire) and that one is cheaper to shoot.
Rifle10- The next one is my wifes favourite
Rifle 11,12,13 and 14 - Looking after a mates ones while he is away...

etc
etc
etc

Originally Posted by Sideshow

You forgot reason #15 “That one gets jealous of 1 and keeps 2-4 in line”

Times have changed...I forgot 15-45 as the rifles my mates own while they await Police to finish renewing their licenses......

Good thing that that has had a common sense response and has been fixed....for the moment.

Originally Posted by mimms2

lol, that should be jokes thread... you know it's the government, right?

how else do you think the high speed rail in japan and europe got built? it wasn't through private funding

Originally Posted by Nickoli

Out of interest - are you a user of the existing rail network? If you were looking for affordable price, decent times and efficiency I suggest that the current network fails in all your stated measures - and any additions to the existing will suffer the same faults and foibles. The rest of the country couldn't give a fat rat's arse either.

I have a work van however I do use it to go to town as i live within walking distance a train station. I use the bus a lot to go clubbing etc or to go to bars.

Yes it is not cheap, quick or reliable. however it avoids a DIC.

Originally Posted by Nickoli

Out of interest - are you a user of the existing rail network? If you were looking for affordable price, decent times and efficiency I suggest that the current network fails in all your stated measures - and any additions to the existing will suffer the same faults and foibles. The rest of the country couldn't give a fat rat's arse either.

I was pre lockdowns.

Driving to the CBD would be faster than the train on most occasions if you leave the house before 6.15am.
But you can relax on the train and the savings vs driving petrol, wear on the car and CBD parking) is a no brainer.

Um, err, nope.

Originally Posted by mimms2

Can you name one thing -any-, but particularly -this- NZ government has delivered cheap, reliable, on time and whatever else thing you said??

To be far I don't think have started anything?

Drawing comparisons with other countries' infrastructure is a wasted cause. Auckland's population is a mere 5-10% of any similar sized (area wise) metropolis around the world. Therefore funding such grandiose pipedreams is beyond our means. Simple.