Thread: Firearms Licence Renewal

Son had to get a new FAL issued as his first didn't have both of his middle names. Less than a fortnight from request to its arrival in the post.

Originally Posted by Cyclops

Son had to get a new FAL issued as his first didn't have both of his middle names. Less than a fortnight from request to its arrival in the post.

I was a referee for a mate and when his license came through it listed his middle name as Helen. He's a big hairy bloke with a blokey middle name. When he queried it he was told they were using his record on the fal database for training and that they changed his middle name as part of the training exercise. Words escape me. At least the replacement license arrived quickly.

Originally Posted by MassiveAttack

I was a referee for a mate and when his license came through it listed his middle name as Helen. He's a big hairy bloke with a blokey middle name. When he queried it he was told they were using his record on the fal database for training and that they changed his middle name as part of the training exercise. Words escape me. At least the replacement license arrived quickly.

What?????? lmao

A few years back an accountancy firm calculated the cost to the tax payer as close to $300 to process a new or renewal application. The cost to the applicant is $126.50. Hiring more staff in Wellington to get through the mountain of applications would obviously add to that cost. If the cost to the applicant went up then undoubtedly some firearm licence holder's would not renew and probably keep their firearms - not a good situation for any of us.

There is, of course, no legal requirement to provide serial numbers of A category firearms. The arms vettor can insist that you open the gun cabinet to show the means by which it is affixed to the premises. I have seen several that were only fixed with one small bolt or large screw and could easily have been ripped away from the building.

with out his prior permission Massive -.fuck me rigid someone is lookin to go for a bloody nasty skate taking risks like that!!

Originally Posted by kotuku

with out his prior permission Massive -.fuck me rigid someone is lookin to go for a bloody nasty skate taking risks like that!!

So what's new???? We have a highly trained, well coordinated & "standardised operational procedures" CARING police service????? Don't we?????

What we have is a "User pays" system which is fine - I don't mind paying for a service . What pisses me off is paying for a service I just don't get. The police need to lift their game. Burglaries don't get investigated, gangs run around causing chaos, poachers eat or sell heaps of stolen meat and we taxpayers pay for lousy service.

Originally Posted by keneff

What we have is a "User pays" system which is fine - I don't mind paying for a service . What pisses me off is paying for a service I just don't get. The police need to lift their game. Burglaries don't get investigated, gangs run around causing chaos, poachers eat or sell heaps of stolen meat and we taxpayers pay for lousy service.

Government needs to lift it's funding, Police have had a zero budget increase for years.

Originally Posted by Savage1

Government needs to lift it's funding, Police have had a zero budget increase for years.

they are not the only govt org that has been frozen,the one that provides 3/4 of my household income has been frozen for years and given expensive extra tasks.

the plus I guess is that NZ came out of round one of the gfc fairly well

Originally Posted by Savage1

Government needs to lift it's funding, Police have had a zero budget increase for years.

Funnily enough my funding has remained with out increase since 2010, but that does not mean I don't have to do my job.

Originally Posted by Savage1

Government needs to lift it's funding, Police have had a zero budget increase for years.

Sorry Savage, but I cannot agree. If there's time and coin and resources to be sitting at the end of passing lanes and the bottom of hills pointing a camera at traffic, pinging them for (often tiny excess), there's time to investigate burglaries properly (or at all would be nice). Reason number 183 that constant unofficial taxation is a bad idea when that's the image the public see on a daily basis, but get no-shows come the day they get burgled. Short sighted right?

Having said that, it's obviously a decision made at bullshit castle, rather than cop-on-the-street level

Just lift the shutters!

Applied for renewal last July through the Dunedin office three months before my license expired. December it turned up in the post.

Another worry is this could be the tip of the iceberg, it'll the Arms Office is this inefficient just getting new licences printed and out to holders, how bad is the rest of their operations, maybe this is why they have many different hymn sheets? Seems it needs a new guy at the top?

jesus wept mines due for renewal in may and im working away from home till april. gonna have to do something ,but not sure exactly what.