Thread: Gun shop owner vows to prosecute TV3 reporter

I hate responding to things like this as I believe opinions are like arseholes, everyone has one but we don't need to share them. Unfortunately this makes me feel unable to restrain myself and I must bare my arsehole in public.

I believe the system is flawed and I appreciate the journalists attempts to show the system as being flawed, this is an area of the law that requires attention, at the end of the day an unlicensed person was able to purchase and receive a firearm. The system should not allow this happen, whether it be a simple cross check or whatever I will leave that to someone else.

What I find galling is that not only did the journalists go through with it so completely so as to receive the firearm, where instead they could have called the retailer and said "look we are running a piece on the flawed system we have been cleared through all your checks please cancel this purchase before the firearm is despatched". They then could have taken their story to the police and the retailer, got things implemented and reviewed and then broken the story a day or so later with a united front from the police and retailers working to improve things. Instead they had to sensationalize it and whip it into a frenzy to increase ratings and justify there probably ridiculous salaries.

They broke the law by receiving that firearm and impersonating the police to purchase it, their defence is the public interest, surely it would have been more in the publics interest to effect change in the system before breaking the story. If they had done that, I would be giving them standing applause for their integrity, instead the way this has been done appears majorly self centered in an attempt for ratings.

I feel sorry for Gun City in that a lot of the flack is directed at them, this could have been any online retailer in NZ.