Thread: Colfo trust & confidence survey

Originally Posted by 19Badger

The reason NZDA were absent about the semi auto centrefire rifles is because it didn't affect those that were doing the speaking, there were a LOT of NZDA members that it did affect as they did own them.
This is still the case in NZDA where people actively promote/advocate for what interests them and ignore or actively ignore/bypass the things that don't interest them.

I don't think that you are giving the "today" NZDA enough credit. With any member driven organisation there will be a multitude of mixed messages coming from the branches through to the National office. Some of the messages will be on point and some of them totally subjective and bordering on crazy. You only need to attend a branch meeting to hear the quality of some of the debate to realise that at times the organisation needs to be protected from itself. The Executive and CEO ensure that this happens - making sense of the messages and sifting out the dominant themes - and advocating for members without wandering down a subjective path. I think they are doing an excellent job right across the board at the moment. But in saying that they certainly did need to improve.