Thread: OH FFS

I’m from Canada. I have a 7 year old and a 4year old. I’ve been in NZ for almost a year. I just an air rifle and I’m teaching my boys to handle it properly and responsibly and to shoot well. I’m very proud of their respect for the weapon and their ability to handle it. They will be supervised closely until they get their own firearms licenses. Hunting and shooting has been a huge part of my life since I was 7!
All to happy to pass it on to my family.

Since being in NZ and now getting my firearms license I’ve found NZ to have a very healthy view of guns for the most part. A proud heritage of hunting and shooting and a reasonable system for acquiring firearms.similar to Canada and yet I would say more reasonable. Not extreme on the controls but not all loose and irresponsible like the USA. I’m glad my boys can grow up in a free and fairly pro sporting culture where firearms are a useful and fun part of life and where the laws enable people to be responsible gun owners without being too restrictive.

I also appreciate that gun owners in NZ that I know are very informed people and active in the political realm. Far too many gun owners in Canada say nothing when misinformed anti gun people do things like this in the media!
This article was reasonably and thoughtfully responded to in the comments. I hope they also write similar letters to the editor at stuff so the media can understand that articles like this one don’t represent the opinions of kiwis the way the media might think!


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