Thread: How to lose your NZ Firearms License?

Originally Posted by No.3

There's been a couple of cases recently where Police officers did lose their licenses and hence their employment as a result of driving offenses resulting in loss of license. It's not broadcast by Police as an organization when it happens, for obvious reasons - humans make mistakes etc etc.

One of my issues with the domestic violence thing is there is a class of lawyer advising clients to go for protection orders and make complaints in order to give the wife(ex) a better case come custody/family court time. I've heard of several cases where its happened, some from the guy being an acquaintance or a good mate and some where the women is the contact and telling me what the lawyer has told her she needs to do. In one case she was told she had to do it as the nz system is heavily weighted against mothers and that she had to go after half the ex husband's company pension and entitlements - I seriously think it's more a case of lawyers gaming the system as those steps require a few more reports assessments and another couple of hearings. Bloody vultures...

I know there was one who lost her job for drink driving crashing etc recently in the news. I was really inferring that if we are to lose our FAL for speeding level offences THEN they should also lose their ability to be Police for the same. They should be held to a higher standard than us, or at the very least, the same as us.

In truth, my real view is that a few speeding offenses , especially fairly minor ones should not have repercussions that outweigh the offense.- They should not lose their jobs for sometimes being a few ks over and nor should a FAL be taken for the same. Wof a few weeks / days over etc. We should not have to drive with our eyes glued to a speedo to make sure we stay under 100km when the real danger is in front of the bonnet (traffic, road conditions, hazards etc...) Sure excessive speed or showing clear disregard for the law is going to understandably going to have an impact as is frequent and repetitive flouting of limits. But an occasional oversight , missed sign, or my last one (about 3km over the limit while trying not to cause delays to Christmas holiday traffic while towing a trailer...) should show that we are trying to obey laws that are being policed to a tolerance level that is below the accuracy of most peoples speedos....