Thread: New shooting range policy?

Hi there,

Unfortunately, I'm living in Auckland. I was trying to book a visit(rifle shooting) to Waiuku pistol club for myself and my mate(with no FAL). But the answer was "all people shooting on the range are required to have a FAL" and "to satisfy NZ police requirements". Does it mean that you can't shoot at any shooting range in the country without FAL even if you accompanied by a licensed shooter? All kids/teenagers are not allowed to shoot at shooting ranges as well?

Visited WPC in November last year with an unlicensed person and didn't have any problems at all and seen a lot of shooting kids out there.

How are you gonna introduce other people to shooting if you can't even go to the shooting range and give it a go? Now you need to go through the whole firearms licensing process before you can even try it out?