Thread: A sad greeting from Christchurch

I am sorry...firstly I am sorry that as a member of the NZ firearms community that trained with one of NZ's most respected gunsmiths I have been absent from the conversation for far too long, secondly I am sorry that it has taken such events for me to add my voice to the throng but such is life and we will all be forced to discuss and debate these matters now.

There are a couple of things I am not sorry for...I am not sorry for being a firearms owner, I am not sorry for being a firearms owner with a specific interest in military pattern firearms and the shooting disciplines that rely on such items.

These will be tough times as we (as a community) are vilified, guilted by association and treated as a danger to society by our very ownership of firearms that at one point in their past were designed as implements of combat. Now more than ever we need to communicate with a unified voice that we are not, and were not the problem and a singluar event (no matter how tragic) cannot form the basis for legal doctrine.

sad times but I'm here.

Rob