Thread: Insanity rules in the vetting process

It doesn't get any better than this https://www.colfo.org/post/colfo-con...olent-criminal

Saw that. Redemption and rehabilitation is important in justice but there are limits. And to be given additional authority? WTF are they thinking?

Originally Posted by no1_49er

It doesn't get any better than this https://www.colfo.org/post/colfo-con...olent-criminal

A slap to the face of all the trouble free licenced firearms owners

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/360666...spiring-mentor

Originally Posted by Oscar

Saw that. Redemption and rehabilitation is important in justice but there are limits. And to be given additional authority? WTF are they thinking?

My thoughts exactly

Originally Posted by no1_49er

It doesn't get any better than this https://www.colfo.org/post/colfo-con...olent-criminal

I think your post should read 'It doesnt get any WORSE than this'

WTF are these people thinking!!! 15 aggravated robberies is bloody serious offending.

'He has a different perspective'..............I bet. Doesnt cancel his past though. outrageous and bullshit.

That Beggars belief.

any one see any where what he intended to do with his FAL hunt ??? other than he was so pleased to have one - makes a mockery of vetting for a FAL allright

Well if they want to make it look like law abiding fal holders are the problem and we arent, why not give people like that a fal. Pretty easy way to tar us with the same brush when the inevitable happens. You can probably count the people that actually have our intrests at heart on one hand. Do you see anyone activley opposing any of this other that that count you did before. But dont worry come election time we will get offered the world again.......

This shit is the reason I don't watch the news, the stupidity and double standards everywhere are so frustrating

Originally Posted by No good names left

This shit is the reason I don't watch the news, the stupidity and double standards everywhere are so frustrating

Perhaps its why you should watch the news. So we wont be blind sided.

Here's another one.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/cri...r-greg-newbold

Both these men have important viewpoints to put across, and I think offering hope that a decent normal life can be had after an appalling period of behaviour and resulting punishment.

I would say the time lapsed and the efforts made in that time are probably what has lead the FSA to approve a licence.

To play devil's advocate here. Isn't this what we want from the Justice system? A young fellow made some bad decisions 20 years ago, did his time and has come out of it for the better and from the looks of it hasn't reoffended since. He even runs a youth mentoring group focusing on young men that might be headed down the same path he did. Seems fine to me.

I put up the Stuff link about this chap wondering it it might cause a re-think about the indignation?

This guy is an aspirational role model and should be celebrated. Why should he be constrained?

I see a clarification from COLFO - the initial article reads as if he is a firearms licence vettor. This is not the case (and for me, shouldn't be even though he has rehabilitated, sometimes there are no second chances). Clumsy wording in the report, he doesn't vet people for firearms licences.