Thread: E cat question

Originally Posted by Kiwi-Hunter

Well I have just asked about this, and it looks like horses for courses, the AO said there needs to be a good reason.
But then your are talking about me
So I see his point and pest control was a good reason according to the AO.
Just my experience which don't seem to count for much, I think these things hang more on what type of person you are and back ground.
Not so much as to tick the boxes on the paper, although there are some boxes that need ticked off
KH

Cheers, thanks.

A good idea might be to put down "all lawful sufficient and proper purposes congruent with s45 of the Arms Act 1983."

I put that down and it wasn't questioned and no condition as to use was otherwise put on the endorsement

Any lawful purpose should be sufficient reason. Service rifle, hunting, collection etc. Thankfully my AOs are great.

No problem at all. Hunting is a perfectly legitimate use. In parliamentary records, it says that MSSA's are used by legitimate hunters and that is a reason to have one. I along with every other E endorsement holder I know, (maybe like 20 or 30) have no restrictions whatsoever and most of them hunt with their MSSA's.

When I applied for my endorsement, I stated every possible legitimate use and added "plus any other legal shooting discipline that may interest me in the future".
The vettor that came around was impressed with how I covered all bases.

So far as I know there are no conditions/restrictions on my endorsement. At least there is nothing I have been made aware of anyway.

So, does anyone have a restriction or condition of use regarding their endorsement?

Not here

Originally Posted by Moutere

So, does anyone have a restriction or condition of use regarding their endorsement?

Originally Posted by Moutere

So, does anyone have a restriction or condition of use regarding their endorsement?

On an interesting note, conditions, if any, aren't recorded against a specific endorsed licence holder - it is applied to the rifle when it is added to the register.

One of my AR's has only one specific use listed on its paperwork - "It's my hunting rifle" :-)

Originally Posted by Monsterbishi

On an interesting note, conditions, if any, aren't recorded against a specific endorsed licence holder - it is applied to the rifle when it is added to the register.

One of my AR's has only one specific use listed on its paperwork - "It's my hunting rifle" :-)

Interesting that you say that because when applying for a e-cat firearm conditions are not required

Originally Posted by Trevs

Interesting that you say that because when applying for a e-cat firearm conditions are not required

Let me know how you get on, it'll be tough to approve the Pol67X as you're not documenting the 'proper' use which it will be used for.

It's all fine and dandy to hide behind legal semantics - gives you a healthy self-righteous glow but all you end up doing is making a nuisance of yourself to those who would have otherwise happily helped you anyway.

KScott as others had said, put down as many uses as possible, from 3 gun, Service rifle, collection, target shooting, pest control and hunting etc. I put all those and have no restrictions on my endorsement.
Hunting is a legitimate use of rifles be they A or E category they fall under.

Cheers and goodluck.

Originally Posted by Monsterbishi

It's all fine and dandy to hide behind legal semantics - gives you a healthy self-righteous glow but all you end up doing is making a nuisance of yourself to those who would have otherwise happily helped you anyway.

Well said.

got mine recently in nelson no problem or restrictions

My AO was a good bloke, I had written down SR, 3gun and hunting, and he said what else should we write down...
Like anything they are not stupid, and probably can read us a lot better than most, considering they have been policing for a lifetime...

We have the same AO. He's great and got me to do the same thing. Now everything is on my application form.