Thread: New government will rewrite Arms Act

Originally Posted by Cyclops

Yeah, nah.

They're proud to have done a self serving deal which puts themselves in power.

It remains to be seen how much of the promises are delivered on and whether the delivery matches the expectation.

Remember promises are cheap to make and expensive to deliver on.

Regarding repeal of laws around clubs and ranges.
I'm involved with many clubs and three ranges.

There was some work involved in getting the ranges to the appropriate standards and inspected.
It wasn't onerous work and has improved the ranges.
All these ranges have passed their inspections.

Other ranges needed to fail to buck up the ideas of those range operating organisations.
Some ranges were/are simply dangerous and shouldn't be operating.
These ranges and their operators need to change.

If the ranges were so dangerous how come the number of accidents/incidents on ranges is so low? And have been for so long.
And when you look at those statistics think about the New Zealand roading system and the number of accidents/incidents that happen daily.

It makes me question the standard applied to ranges when they don't build roads to the same standard.

Originally Posted by 19Badger

If the ranges were so dangerous how come the number of accidents/incidents on ranges is so low? And have been for so long.
And when you look at those statistics think about the New Zealand roading system and the number of accidents/incidents that happen daily.

It makes me question the standard applied to ranges when they don't build roads to the same standard.

I'd hazard a guess that most range users aren't on third and subsequent etc and therefore the ranges are generally only used by people who have a bit of common sense. Any dropkick can learn to drive a motor vehicle regardless of licensing or registration or even having lawful possession of the vehicle. I am far more concerned about the pissed cu*ts in my town driving then I'll ever be about ad hoc community "ranges" we lost.