Thread: Useing the firearms register

Originally Posted by 308

Cam Slater could tell me that the sky is blue and I'd walk outside to check

Yeh. I am certainly no fan of the man and when I read the article behind the link I was somewhat incredulous that he couldn’t understand that firearms records are in a transitional period and that the NIA and the new registry will at least need to coexist until the five year mark from the beginning of the registry. Using B endorsement pistols as an example, the NIA will have records of all of the permits issued for all of the pistols held by B endorsed license holders (and the individual pistol’s back history of owners as well) whereas the registry which Police have indicated currently has records of twenty percent of firearms is not likely to have anywhere near the the records that are in the NIA. Why would they bin the NIA while it has (using my example) the most accurate records for B endorsement pistols and who has them.

It is also easy to spot Cam’s deliberate pigheaded ignorance in the multiple misuse of TPP for Te Tari Pureke which would quite obviously be shortened to TTP.