Thread: NZDA requires FAL number

Greetings All,
We certainly do live in an age of outrage. Is this not the same info we have been willingly providing when we purchase firearms and ammo for years? Get a life people.
GPM.

I'm reminded of Billy Goats who seem to like butting heads for the pleasure of butting heads. Hell if I have to hand my license over to Hunting & Fishing or G.C..anytime I buy something significant I'm certainly going to let NZDA have it when they ask and without examining the dust under the bed with a microscope in case there's something bad there.

Sent it in this morning. On with the day....

NZCTA collect the same info but the club I'm affiliated through doesn't as it's held nationality they have no need.

Got the NZDA email too. Been a member for years. I believe NZDA when they say new regs compel them to hold members FAL info. They say it's to do with the fact that NZDA is now a registered rifle range under the new laws. I'll be sending my info in.
I recently joined the Tokoroa Shooting Complex and they recorded my FAL number as well, as they must under new regs.
I don't have any problem with it.

No they are a registered club, individual branches are also supposed to have registered as clubs as well and then if they have their own range register that separately or if they shoot on one they don't operate be approved users on that range

Surely to be a member of a well recognized organization like the NZDA which will be 75yrs old soon is a good thing. If by law they require to note FAL numbers of its members so be it. You may find one day that being a member of a club like this is part of showing you are responsible.

Originally Posted by trooper90

Surely to be a member of a well recognized organization like the NZDA which will be 75yrs old soon is a good thing.

That's quite coincidental the Nelson Branche's 75th birthday is celebrated tonight after our AGM




Even had commemorative knives made for the occasion

Originally Posted by trooper90

Surely to be a member of a well recognized organization like the NZDA which will be 75yrs old soon is a good thing. If by law they require to note FAL numbers of its members so be it. You may find one day that being a member of a club like this is part of showing you are responsible.

It led to to massive increase/uptake in Australia of shooting/hunting clubs in the wake of Port Arthur. Not quite what the powers that be were expecting....

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Originally Posted by tiroahunta

It led to to massive increase/uptake in Australia of shooting/hunting clubs in the wake of Port Arthur. Not quite what the powers that be were expecting....

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And that's a silver lining for here. It is driving license holder into (hopefully) larger and stronger and better organised representative shooting clubs and organisations. That strengthens representation and solidarity.

On a slight tangent does anyone have an update on the number of clubs not just deerstalkers that have completed the registration process? At the beginning of the month I believe it was only 27 in total excluding PNZ ones

For what its worth i let my NZDA membership lapse after the stance they took over the terrorist attack. I have since rejoined this year . I think it is better to be part of than not. Its also easier to change something from the inside rather than the outside.

I see the Taupo range has gone from $5 to $20 for non members. Maybe a push to get to get more people to join. I can see more people going out to DoC land or forestry to site their rifles in though.

Originally Posted by Bush Basher

I see the Taupo range has gone from $5 to $20 for non members. Maybe a push to get to get more people to join. I can see more people going out to DoC land or forestry to site their rifles in though.

Compared with the cost of maintaining let alone upgrading the range $20 bucks is dirt cheap. Consider joining. Using Forestry or DoC land without permission is illegal and consequences of getting caught may be severe. Your rifle, your liscence and your choice.
GPM.

Originally Posted by grandpamac

Compared with the cost of maintaining let alone upgrading the range $20 bucks is dirt cheap. Consider joining. Using Forestry or DoC land without permission is illegal and consequences of getting caught may be severe. Your rifle, your liscence and your choice.
GPM.

Very hard to police DoC land I’m afraid.