Thread: NZDA requires FAL number

Originally Posted by Bush Basher

If it was illegal why wouldn’t it be listed on the permit, next to the other activities that are not allowed? One could argue that part of hunting is checking your rifle is shooting correctly.

They had to draw a line somewhere if not wanting to list every single indiscretion that isn’t allowed. Otherwise there would be much more paper to carry with more writing that wouldn’t be read. I am going to go out on a limb here and suggest that the omission is a legacy issue from a time when permit holders were credited with the posession of common sense, insight and a degree of judgement, when it was not considered necessary to explicitly state the fact.