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COLFO (Council of Licenced Firearms Owners) spokesperson Hugh Devereaux-Mack said,
“It’s not surprising that we see inflated or ballooning cost in this agency that does not reduce crime and it is an indication of how the registry will be run. NZers should be asking if they are getting value for money and are they safer for this investment.”
fair comment much more eloquent than your average NZHS forum member when trying to say "i told you so".............
also not surprising the minister wasnt available for comment.... she most likely wont respond before the election (my expectation given the history of pollys in general when a negative story hits)
We had a good system. Now it's a fuck up. Pretty much sums up the last 6 years for most things too
creating cost by wasting money is what the system is supposed to do. By law these costs must be recovered from firearms owners, thus making owning firearms unaffordable for the average person.
Its really not that hard to understand what they are trying to do.
Oh you synical unbeliever you
Before you even delve to far into it to figure out where the moneys getting channeled back to.....think of all that gst.....
To be honest I don't think they think that far ahead
1. As a new agency they need to get their name/brand out there.
2. The more they spend/waste the higher the cost per license, That'll be why they haven't fixed the new fees yet.
3. They have excelled beyond their own expectations at increasing said cost/license.
4. And most importantly...It's not their money.
Just like everything the Liebour government has touched, just another horrendously expensive clusterfuck!Quote:
Originally Posted by No good names left
hey they got rid of plastic bags.......now we are back to chopping down trees to make paper ones again and fukn useless wooden knives and forks
The little cans of John West Tuna that have been around for ever are no longer coming into NZ from Oz due to the attached plastic spoon/fork.Quote:
Originally Posted by blip
:wtfsmilie: how much plastic is in the average car these days?? even your environmentally friendly electric oneQuote:
Originally Posted by zimmer
Making paper pollutes as much as oilQuote:
Originally Posted by blip
yes its a pain in the arse and we know its a forelock tug to the handringers.
but so far found the rego process pretty painless.
could resist a dig when she quoted thier privacy obligations and the fines and jail time for knowingly providing wrong info aint to be sneezed at either.
the speed atwhich they got info from guncity saying i bought a gun surprised me tho .
bought it in the avo on a wedneday got a email saying i had triggered a need to contact them thursday morning
Without Plastic there is no surviving for 95% of the grenies....Quote:
Originally Posted by blip
No electrics.. (no insulation) No seals for taps, sinks or washing machines etc, no plugs (water or power) No trips to the supermarket (packaging in general) Tar seal for the roads, no pipes for plumbing, - so no seweer, no water, no light. No bicycle helmets,
NO CELLPHONES, NO FACEBOOK, NO INTERNET NO COMPUTERS, NO PHONES in general....
A huge portion of medical care relies on plastic especially the stuff that reuires sterility....
No pacemakers, no surgical gloves,
The real irony is that the plastic bags were invented by a greenie to reduce the impact on the enviroment of the destruction of trees for paper bags. You only needed to use them twice for them to become more enviromentally friendly than paper bags.....and they had the added benefit of increased reliability AND food hygene..
The stupid bastards will effectively kill themselves off with incompetence when it comes to thinking these things through.....
One KEY point is that we are supposed to be getting an INDEPENDANT firearms authority and by their own statement "The new Firearms Safety Authority (“FSA”), a unit recently set up within the NZ Police to administer civilian firearms ownership in NZ," they are proving to be a load of bollocks there too...
It is a "Business Unit" within the NZ Police. Self-explanatory, it is User-Pays Policing. How long before Police start charging a "Fee" for background/vetting checks for employment in certain vocations. It is a slippery slope.Quote:
Originally Posted by timattalon
It was supoosed to be (and we were promised...) an independant firearms authority so the Police could do Police stuff as they appeared incapable of doing FAL stuff....Perhaps incapable is not the right word. Perhaps the term "took the FAL administration budget and spent it in other depts leaving the FAL system iunder resourced, understaffed and in an absolute mess so they could look better elsewhere...." Is it really incapable when it is a concious decision to not do a job you are paid to?Quote:
Originally Posted by BSA
Meanwhile synthetic/nylon carpet is ok. Did you know that there are 14,000 shopping bags in your average lot ofQuote:
Originally Posted by blip
Nylon carpet!!!
Imagine how many shopping bags are in your average car...and haven't got the balls to take on coca cola etc
They already do, it costs me $8.50 plus GST for every vetting check i get.Quote:
Originally Posted by BSA