Thread: Mountain Safety Council Firearms Course

Originally Posted by Taff

Beware what you wish for, in the UK there is a push by the police for a dsc1, $600, it was takes 3 days, for deer hunters, if you want to hunt on state forest land you have to pay a lease and a minimum of dsc2 $2k, there is a whole industry now offering courses, and slowly the anti gun brigade are pushing for more training, not that a basic gun handling course is a bad thing, but it depends what you want out of it, the NZ course is basic, but then again most of the accidents seem to be experienced (allegedly) hunters not identifying there targets.

I suspect that the anti-gunners have cottoned on toone of the weaknesses in the system. ie they cannot be upfront get guns banned as long as a decent % NZers want and use them. However if you make it too expensive then gradually ppl will drop out until there are too few left to have a sizable % of voter voice and then no worries ban them.

The other one they are winning on is divide and conquer, ie "lets go after the semi-autos this year" at which point the small bore target shooters and other segments opt out of taking any part as this problem will never happen to them. Hence why we need to advocate for COLFo etc, we need a voice up there at a high level.