Thread: 250,000 licence holderds

ACT is a political party like all the rest.... to be trusted only so far.
But they are all as bad as each other.
What do we as shooters have to loose? NOTHING.
I have thought some more about this and had a few discussions etc. I think ACT is the safe bet as they already have some votes from joe public, our collective votes should help a lot.
While KIWI is probably a better party (if it is staffed with shooters etc) they will receive ONLY the shooting votes, which might not be enough to get them over the line....

Thoughts guys and the odd girl or two out there?

I really do like the idea of a party staffed with shooters....

Originally Posted by 40mm

ACT is a political party like all the rest.... to be trusted only so far.
But they are all as bad as each other.
What do we as shooters have to loose? NOTHING.
I have thought some more about this and had a few discussions etc. I think ACT is the safe bet as they already have some votes from joe public, our collective votes should help a lot.
While KIWI is probably a better party (if it is staffed with shooters etc) they will receive ONLY the shooting votes, which might not be enough to get them over the line....

Thoughts guys and the odd girl or two out there?

I really do like the idea of a party staffed with shooters....

New parties always struggle and historically only ones founded by an mp succeed.

Even Colin Craig with his millions couldn't get past the 5 percent. He got 4.7 which is rough.

Act will at least have a decent amount of seats if we vote for them. Whether or not Seymour puts out for us is another thing.

I think a better question is what we want to achieve through political parties.


I think the best we could hope for is a scientific study from the likes of Gary Mauser and Samara McPhedran about the effect it the ban has on gun crime. And then some sort of relaxation of the laws.

Originally Posted by Russian 22.

I think the best we could hope for is a scientific study from the likes of Gary Mauser and Samara McPhedran about the effect it the ban has on gun crime. And then some sort of relaxation of the laws.

Has the discussion with the wife going past petrol station. Wow, 10 cents off! Yes, little morsels of concessions to make us feel a bit better, but it just deflects what should be our anger at paying well over $2 per litre of the cheapest fuel type. So a little relief here or there, but the overall crush on our rights is relentless.
The Kiwi party's lawsuit (supported by COLFO) against the latest Arms Act aims for a bigger push-back, drawing a line in the sand versus against the gungrabbers.

Originally Posted by Cordite

Has the discussion with the wife going past petrol station. Wow, 10 cents off! Yes, little morsels of concessions to make us feel a bit better, but it just deflects what should be our anger at paying well over $2 per litre of the cheapest fuel type. So a little relief here or there, but the overall crush on our rights is relentless.
The Kiwi party's lawsuit (supported by COLFO) against the latest Arms Act aims for a bigger push-back, drawing a line in the sand versus against the gungrabbers.

I get that. I am just saying what I think is the most likely best case scenario.

Or it can go full Australia with there military style lever actions.