Thread: Gun Culture In New Zealand

Originally Posted by Carlsen Highway

A firearms license is a privilege accorded to responsible citizens and can be revoked by the police if they simply consider you are no longer responsible, and this is without any real legal redress.

Every firearm Licence holder or potential licence holder can challenge any official decision in court.

http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/p.../DLM73319.html

The old guys at deerstalkers aren't the only one with Firearms Licences.

There definitely is a firearm culture in New Zealand, and I'm proud to be part of it.

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I disagree. We have a strong heritage of hunting, deerstalking and pig hunting. The emphasis is wrong. We don't have any form of firearms 'heritage' or culture. These politicised concepts are not part of the New Zealand experience. Alaskaman is talking one thing and the guys here are understanding another, without the same associations.

I think New Zealand`s firearms heritage is that of their use as tools in food gathering,pest control,target shooting and as weapons in two World Wars.
Surely the .303 SMLE is an icon of our firearms heritage!

Originally Posted by rockland

I think New Zealand`s firearms heritage is that of their use as tools in food gathering,pest control,target shooting and as weapons in two World Wars.
Surely the .303 SMLE is an icon of our firearms heritage!

Some definitions of heritage from Wikipedia:

History, "heritage" refers to historical events or processes that have a special meaning in group memory.

Cultural heritage, the legacy of physical artifacts and intangible attributes of a group or society: man-made heritage

You are correct Rockland. Our nation's participation in the two world wars made a large contribution to the formation of our national identity and the .303 was central to that.