Thread: NZ Police Press release

ebf you are correct with your math and what a sad reflection that is on the change in our society over my life time. In my youth (50's& 60's) there was a rifle (generally a shotgun .22 or 303 in every master bedroom wardrobe that I knew. My father's, uncles, grandfathers, neighbours and friends. Children were familiar with firearms, learned about their practical use (providing food for the. Family table) and used them (in my case shooting rabbits and rats). As a representative percentage of the population it surely had to be far greater than the current 5%. The thing that concerns me the most about the (clear to me) decline is that 95 in every 100 people I meet have little or no experience of the place that firearms have in our history as a nation and our cultural background / way of life as a people.

I may be alone in this concern but in a future over populated world where clean water becomes a highly sort after resource that wars will likely be waged over, it worries me that New Zealand society may have completely lost the ability to bear arms in defence of its resources.