Thread: Objecting to Gun Confiscation

Originally Posted by yosamitesam

What do you hope to achieve through this course of action? If everyone agrees to cancel I imagine at best it will delay a buy back. I have seen nothing to suggest the law is under review?

Most LFAOs affected appear to be heeding COLFOs warning to stay away for now, that is the main factor delaying.

Writing to the venues is not primarily about hoping for cancellation of most events (fat chance!), and "only" one or two cancellations is actually a great achievement.

Reason is, cancellations are figurative "warning shots" that put NZ Police on notice that if people start seeing punters leaving their theft events too unhappy and too screwed over... then undecided future venue hosts will more likely than not "have enough evidence" to justify cancelling bookings.

I have no doubt this letter writing action has helped many out there to get a better deal than NZP / Jacinda's government intended them to get on their early hand-ins. If I'm correct, it's a 100% success.

So...keep writing guys, and stay polite and respectful - you want to win the person over more than you want to win a shouting match, write to them like they are - good guys who want to do a right thing and who need to know what's happening.