I'm Back (Maybe) & Police Policy:

I've been relaxing in the long hot days while watching the grass die from drought - There's never been so little rainfall in some locals here in New Zealand in the records!

- Never fear, - it'll green-up again over Winter / Spring.

So - What's been happening? - The Doomsday Clock has moved forward to 3 minutes before midnight - warning of apocalypse racing towards mankind.. but don't worry about it eh.
(See my posting 8th June 2014 for more info.)

New Zealand Police Association frontline officers expressed concerns that they weren't getting enough training with real guns since they've started using video game-like simulators !! Live Training with their Glocks and Bushmaster rifles has dropped from 13,000 training sessions in 2011 to 5,000 only in 2012 and 7,500 in 2014. - They'll be running round next pointing their fingers at targets - going "peouw-peouw .. bang you're dead".

- Mind you - The Commissioner of Police still requires we sporting kiwi target pistol shooters to attend our club live firing range at least twelve times a year - to demonstrate our serious interest in the use of handguns. - Does that indicate that our frontline law enforcement senior administrators are not serious about their use of firearms ?

- Oh, and while we're on the topic - it seems that The NZ Police hierarchy have secretly introduced an "amendment" into Parliament to give them the right to charge us increased fees for 'services' such as license applications and import permits. They told the consultative liaison committee at the last meeting that they were considering maybe looking at increased charges - while all the time they had secretly made the move to have the law changed without telling us shooters about it.

- Seems to me that they are well set into thinking that law abiding certified 'fit & proper' firearms users are to be treated like scum and penalised at every opportunity to discourage their use of their legal rights as firearms users. - This is a hostile and punitive move against legal shooters.

I was seriously thinking that I'd call it a day with this blog after a full year - but we definitely need all the voices we can raise to protest at being treated like undesirables and criminals.

We have only until February 5 to make submissions against the parliamentary amendment bill - think about it - every nut, spring, screw and pin for a gun will have to have an IMPORT PERMIT application fee paid to the police - Guess how much you'll have to pay in future.

Marty K.