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bigbear - another wet bus ticket case was about the firearms supplied to Quinn Patterson, who committed a double murder at Whangarei Heads back in 2017. Michael John Hayes supplied firearms -...

FFS, there's another report of someone being criminally dick-headed...
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/300305447/near-miss-for-hawkes-bay-family-after-bullet-lodged-in-the-wall
A stray...

Agree. First 2 on your list didn't even have a FAL. The disincentive seems to be so trivial as to be meaningless. Unenforced rules undermine enforcement.

Someone has been arrested for this.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/300286270/arrest-made-following-otago-duck-shooting-incident
Goodbye FAL

Yes, but a couple of morons gave them the stage to do so. Firearm ownership is not a right, and is under attack from many quarters. Everyone that uses a firearm is an ambassador, and needs to behave...

Someone who did a mildy stupid thing has given a soap box and microphone to the antis to have a go at what is largely a healthy and sustainable pastime. Jumping from littering to banning duck hunting...

This is exactly the sort of publicity that licenced firearms owners don't need right now. Please be careful out there!