Thread: What I got from gunstuff as an email, police looking to charge for paperwork

Originally Posted by Beavis

This is where I take issue with it. It is the govt's responsibility to distribute funds. The govt gets money from speeding tickets, court action etc. It doesn't go straight into the police's pocket. So from the sounds of things, the govt isn't allocating enough funds to make the firearms system tick over. Perhaps they could give them a percentage of the money made from infringements. Surely should cover a 10 min job writing out a permit.

Yeah but do that and next week the people who walk the Heafy Track will want $$ that was received from FAL owners for track and hut maintenance.

You're right though, there simply isn't enough resources allocated to the Police to do their job. So either more money needs to go to them, and that has to come from somewhere, or we expect the Police to do more and more, with less.

Or option C and the organisational requirements for firearms goes to a separate (private) organisation that reports directly to the Police. Which frees up the Police to do other things, but will cost us shitloads more in $$ (as well as open a different can of worms)