They got a big chunk of charitable funding based on the claims of creating a publicly accessible rifle range for the local area. (this was the bulk of their funding, iirc)
They also got a heap of support, both with assets and with manpower, from the NZDA branch, on the basis of getting the rifle range up and running for general use asap.
They also pre-sold memberships to rifle shooters under the promise of "pay now, only start your member year when the rifle range is open".
This was several years ago, still no rifle range to my knowledge..
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