Thread: New FAL waiting time

Originally Posted by 10-Ring

A firearms licence consists of three interviews for a a standard A-Cat licence. 4 interviews for a B-Cat, C-Cat and D-Cat licence. You have referee's that cancel at the last minute because it doesn't suit themselves and that delays the whole process. You have applicants that have no security installed because they don't intend to buy a rifle but want to borrow a mate's rifle. Previous to all this the applicant and his referee's have to have the Arms Officer process the application and prepare the interview documents for the vetting officer/s specific to the applicant and each referee. Then then once all the interviews are completed along with the recommendations from the vettor/s and returned to the Arms Officer for approval or not. The file may then be requested for an audit. It's not a driver licence or a passport.

Obviously, certain districts in the country are not performing as well as they should for whatever reason and that is rightly completely unacceptable and frustrating for applicant's in those areas. However, the pressure is now being applied to said areas by the new Firearms Regulatory Unit who are trying to get all areas up to speed and completely consistent across the country.

What a load of weasel piss

This "police force" couldn't clear out a bunch of smelly tinfoil hats off the lawn of parliament,
Couldn't secure a database in Auckland instead leaving out a laundry list of FAL details for crooks to steal
and now people like you are making apologies for their utter shambles of a job they are pretending to do in terms of licensing

If I was as crap at my job as the police are at licensing I should rightly expect to get fired

So what accountability do we have?

Hand out a license to Tarrant without checking that his mates knew him beyond gaming forums? - Oh, the office was under pressure
Lose a whole lot of people's FAL details in a burglary in a police station? - No further action will be taken
Wanting to take photos and details of young maori kids like some kind of weirdo pervs? - oh that's completely normal

The fact that these eedjits couldn't organise a fuck in a whorehouse and absolutely nobody up and down the length of the country gets made responsible for this shitshow is appalling

The police need some serious reform and it needs to start at the top