Thread: Kiwis support stricter controls on gun owners

Originally Posted by GravelBen

Thinking about the sort of people who don't own a gun, but borrow one from a mate to go duckshooting for a weekend.

You would hope those guys had both kinds of license, or the loaner could be in a world of trouble

Originally Posted by Tussock

Started that way holding my Baikal next to the old man who had his pointer when I was 12. Its how we used to bring people to the sport.

That is an interesting point in itself that a lot of people here may not have picked up on. I started in a similar way but didnt really do any shooting after leaving school and have only got my license this year. That said I have had quite a bit of time handling a firearm and could have walked into the MSC course and passed it without reading the book as my Dad had drummed it all into me many years ago. What hit me in that course though was that there were probably half a dozen people out of 30 odd there that had never even touched a firearm before and there is a pretty big difference between being told you have to do this and that all the time and actually doing it, like pointing a firearm in a safe direction all the time etc. No idea how to fix this though.