Thread: Colfo Announce Firearms Registry Review

Originally Posted by Ben Waimata

It's fully understandable and not just for the sake of it, we've all been treated as if we are ciminals, had massive new legislation thrown at us to keep us under control, and to convince the public that we are suitably controlled. No wonder so many shooters feel victimised. Personally I think the egister is far less of an issue than other aspects of the law change, such as range rules, access to semi autos, etc. But given how few farmers, foresters, orchardists etc have applied for P licenses for pest control maybe we are collectively our own worst enemies. It will be hard to mount an argument of the need for semi autos for pest control as the legal access has been available since January 2020 but comparatively there have been very few applications.

A lot of the initial applicants got denied - and were loud about it. Job done really. Now we have massive but silent pest animal population growth and the people who are concerned about it can't fund or don't have sufficient funding to do anything about it and via their roles can't kick up a stink. Bit of an own goal that aspect of it. People could continue to apply pressure to the pest animal populations despite the most efficient tool for the job being removed, but in the majority of cases they've just thrown their hands up and said no longer my problem - why do it for free in that case? I can actually understand that.