Thread: Duck shooting accident

Originally Posted by erniec

Ultimately we are all responsible for our own and others safety.
But some people are very inconsiderate and do not think of others and their pursuits.
You see people swimming in the area zoned for water skiing.
Fisherman out on boats the first weekend of May.
We don't go near Taupo during Ironman or around Taupo cycle race.
Avoid hunting rivers when they open for fishing.
School holidays long weekends consider influx of trampers.

So true , people have become so selfish .

Originally Posted by Rush

Not enough information in the article but the wording suggests that the shooters noticed what happened after firing, which probably means they had the opportunity to check their firing zone for people in the area and didn't.

Enough said.

Someone has been arrested for this.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/cri...oting-incident
Goodbye FAL

will be over 90 yards.... but thats not hard to get when drifting down a waterway....these fellas either didnt look on google earth first or didnt care.
did we do the check if legal to drift in that district on opening weekend??? cant remember...

Originally Posted by zimmer

Ha ha keep them coming Phil, we are almost there.

I was wondering the women had permission to be out of the kitchen or laundry at the time but have been to scared to ask in these modern woke times. Does this count toward getting there? Just trying to help Phil!

Originally Posted by Bol Tackshin

Someone has been arrested for this.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/cri...oting-incident
Goodbye FAL

If this guy looses his firearms license it just will prove you are better of with out one, I am NO way condoning what he did and we don't have all the facts, he left in a boat doesn't mean he was drifting. He was shooting towards a public track/walkway

The young fella down south with no license that got caught poacher got nothing
The lady protecting her crop with no license shot her husband got 6 months home detention
Brendon Tarrents to on line friends who went referees for him got what??
And then then you have Tarrant he is guaranteed three meals a day, a warm bed, a roof over his head and a tv for the rest of his life.

Agree. First 2 on your list didn't even have a FAL. The disincentive seems to be so trivial as to be meaningless. Unenforced rules undermine enforcement.

FFS, there's another report of someone being criminally dick-headed...
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/cri...ed-in-the-wall
A stray bullet lodged in a wall in a family home in Puketitiri near Napier.

Please, if you know someone that is an idiot when using firearms, educate them to do better, or report them if they can't be responsible We are all going to be punished in the long term because of incidents like this.

@bigbear - another wet bus ticket case was about the firearms supplied to Quinn Patterson, who committed a double murder at Whangarei Heads back in 2017. Michael John Hayes supplied firearms - including MSSAs - to Patterson who killed a property manager and her daughter when the pair paid a visit to Patterson's home, apparently to install smoke alarms.

Hayes was sentenced to a year's home detention back in 2018. He admitted to several charges, including supplying firearms to Quinn Patterson, who did not have a firearm licence. The Judge said Hayes knew Patterson didn't have a firearms licence but left six guns at Patterson's home and helped him to buy more.

A year's home detention, for what lead to 2 people being killed??? Having had a licence, Hayes would have been acutely aware that his actions were illegal. The justice system is completely out of touch when it comes to sentencing.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/...erer-sentenced

Originally Posted by Bol Tackshin

@bigbear - another wet bus ticket case was about the firearms supplied to Quinn Patterson, who committed a double murder at Whangarei Heads back in 2017. Michael John Hayes supplied firearms - including MSSAs - to Patterson who killed a property manager and her daughter when the pair paid a visit to Patterson's home, apparently to install smoke alarms.

Hayes was sentenced to a year's home detention back in 2018. He admitted to several charges, including supplying firearms to Quinn Patterson, who did not have a firearm licence. The Judge said Hayes knew Patterson didn't have a firearms licence but left six guns at Patterson's home and helped him to buy more.

A year's home detention, for what lead to 2 people being killed??? Having had a licence, Hayes would have been acutely aware that his actions were illegal. The justice system is completely out of touch when it comes to sentencing.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/...erer-sentenced

And ‘some’ believe gun registration will stop this sort of catastrophe...