Eeeh - When I was a lad - our Jesuit school masters would avow that we little pagans "HAD TO HAVE FAITH" whenever they had no answer to our protests at some stupid religious teaching or other. - This is much like our career politicians claiming that we ordinary folk couldn't possibly understand the depth of the issues they have to address - so just leave it to them ..."Don't question ME peasant"
Unsurprisingly - widespread 21st Century IQ testing shows a steady decline (especially at senior management levels).
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Grammer School wasn't all bad but - as in 1958 they taught me how to handle and shoot a Short Magazine Lee Enfield Cadet rifle in the CCF - and for the following 66 years I have very much enjoyed my basic civil rights and responsibilities as a gun owner.
Throughout those years I learned a lot while shooting in UK, Australia, and New Zealand and I witnessed some atrocious unsafe negligent gun handling on range both by military officers and by sworn police employees - both groups being exempted from our usual firearms safety training and licensing laws. Why are these Government/Taxpayer employees exempt from licensing requirements?
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- I couriered some firearms to be auctioned at what 'Ted' tells me will be his last ever militaria auction. - When my Firearms Licence expires later this year it will mark a sad personal end time.
SAD TIMES - MARKING AN EXTINCTION EVENT FOR LEGAL KIWI SHOOTERS.
Any & all of you planning to legally ship guns around NZ by the DEALER NETWORK COURIER deserve my honest sympathy. - Current regulations and transport rules mean that moving a small number of target guns from my home legally to a Wellington Auctioneer cost me $575. - together with three hours driving plus two hours securing and re-packing the guns that I had initially carefully placed & sealed into their original containers - because EACH gun had to be disabled by fitting with a new trigger-lock and then further secured inside another LOCKED CONTAINER. - Obviously, a pistol having been fitted with a 'trigger lock' or having been "locked slide-back" by a steel flexi-cable shoved up it's bottom instead of it's magazine will no longer fit into it's custom shaped lockable container - then re-packaged into parcels not weighing more than 5 kilos each for carriage by the Dealer's Courier Network.
"They" are missing a trick here - they should require that any vehicle and/or seagoing ferry vessel or aircraft that may be used to transport firearms - must be securely locked at every entrance at all times to prevent access. - That would rapidly bring the whole country to a standstill on it's knees!
- My consignement Keys and Combination Lock codes needed to be transmitted separately to the permitted recipient.
A Police 'MAIL PERMIT' - 'FRM 43A Novemcer 2022' had to be obtained in advance to permit movement of an unrestricted-unregistered .22" rabbit gun - while the other 'B' Cat. registered target pistols were advance issued with multi-layered POL67C 11/21 'PERMIT TO PROCURE' .
Hopefully I will get more than that $575 courier charge from the sale of my once treasured possessions.
Never forget that our Police and Politicians have their own our best interests in mind at all times.
Oh Well - perhaps I should consider buying a 'CITIZEN' brand watch to restore some personal status
Marty K.
Here is a link to a fairly factual but entertaining story about Glocks .. makes a change eh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIg6tay24YA
Yes... it's pretty obvious that public safety is not the aim. Total civilian disarmament is their game and they are hell bent on the project by any means that they can devise.
ReplyDeleteThere is little hope of any let up in this process from National. They seem to be just as keen on it all. ACT are a fair bit better than that, but they are unlikely to have the 'clout' to get the gun-banners off our backs, and firearms administration out of the hands of NZ Police, who are proving with their new system to be management top heavy and woefully inefficient at what they are doing. I suppose the inefficiency is useful for them to justify huge fees to discourage a lot of shooters from retaining their licences.
That will but a few thousand more guns into the illegal pool of course, but their inability to do anything effective about the criminals won't stop them leaning on us.
Perhaps it is for the best that we two are cool heads on older bodies eh - as I certainly have a cold-burning rage building at the unjust corrupt & futile stupidity of our politicians & police hierarchy.
ReplyDelete- Yes I fear there will be many hundreds of firearms unregistered and moved into the shadows.