Thread: Insanity rules in the vetting process

I've just been through the process after watching my licence expire during the 20 years I lived overseas. When I first applied, I was told by the vetting agent that I should withdraw my application so that it wasn't rejected. This was because despite having previously held a licence in NZ, having supplied Criminal Record Checks for the countries I had lived in since leaving NZ, and having held firearms' licences in some of those countries, I could not provide a NZ Citizen, living in NZ who had been in close contact with me through the previous three years... I declined their suggestion to withdraw my application.

Fortunately, the actual Firearms officer who reviewed my file had a load of commonsense and chose to interview a number of people to satisfy the character side of things. Makes me wonder hom many others have been put off applying... and makes me a little frustrated at the stree I endured when reading this article... (though I believe everyone should have the opportunity for redemption).