Thread: Colfo Announce Firearms Registry Review

Originally Posted by Ben Waimata

Confiscation is a different discussion altogether. If it gets to that point we have serious issues and might need to reconsider options.

Nope. All part of the same rope unfortunately - what the media and outfits like GCNZ have done is make firearms admin hard, high potential for public failure and bad juju's for anyone tasked with it. The unfortunate thing is the environment in which the majority of firearms are used in NZ is relatively unique in world standards, largely due to piss poor acclimatisation decisions made back in the day. We have a unique operating environment where people are required to use firearms as part of their role as 'tools of trade', and under the same licence as recreational users - and then you have professional users which have now been separated out again under a much more onerous regime alongside dealers, manufacturers and retailers. It's a mess, the legislation was rotten before the Chch attack just by too many amendments with not a lot of understanding, it was made a lot more incoherent in the knee jerk after and the only way to fix it so it's workable is chuck the Act out and start again. This is where the current Govt are on the correct track in my opinion but it remains to be seen if they get it right.