Thread: Anyone a member of SSANZ or The NZ NSA?

Originally Posted by RimfireNZ

...just gotta make the payment to the NSA. Their forum is basically empty so was wondering if they actually had anything going on.

Curious, but why would you choose to join an organisation that their own members don't participate in their own forum ?

I think Gimp summed up the NSA succinctly

SSANZ - Sporting Shooters Association of New Zealand. Website is here.

The Sporting Shooters Association of New Zealand was established in 1989 as the Shooter's Rights Association. Our aims and objectives are:

To promote safety and firearms in New Zealand.

To help promote the growth of all firearms clubs in New Zealand.

To assist and guide new firearms licence applications and existing licence holders with the new changes.

To attend firearms seminars and meetings on behalf of the members to express their views and concerns.

To help obtain the assistance of local Councils and Local Bodies for a public firearms range in your area.

To liaise with the elected M.P.s of your area for their help and co-operation in firearms related matters and to promote M.P.'s or candidate who are favourable to firearms.

To protect and enhance existing firearms laws and regulations for the benefit of lawful firearms users and their families.

To help and assist New Zealand Police for promotion and understanding of good firearms laws.

To campaign for tougher penalties for the unlawful misuse of firearms or weapons used in criminal acts of violence or robbery and to help promote counselling or compensation for victims of those crimes.

To foster a change through education in the attitudes of those who are not aware of the benefit of all firearms related sports and activities.

NSA - National Shooters Association - website is here.

The National Shooters Association (NSA) was formed, in 2009, by a group of people concerned at unlawful administration of the Arms Act 1986 by anti-gun extremists from police national headquarters. Richard Lincoln, the founding President of the NSA, initiated a legal challenge and a nation wide appeal for participation from all civilian gun owners to support the judicial review (the "Save Our Butts" campaign) opposing the illegal police reclassification of sporting rifles as military style firearms.

The group that formed as a result of the judicial review went on to become the National Shooters Association. Within 48 hours of its launch the NSA had over 100 members signed up and today many more have joined the NSA ranks. The NSA now stands firmly for the rights of all civilian gun owners; covering all genres of sport shooting.

The primary aim of NSA is to ensure that civilian gun owners receive the full protection of the law against police anti-gun extremist initiatives. NSA is involved in many projects that benefit civilian gun owners and lobbies the legislature for rational and sensible arms control law.