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Record Low Trust In Police Explains Small Firearm Registry Turnout
Wednesday, 17 January 2024, 11:46 am | NZ Council Of Licensed Firearms Owners
COLFO’s latest Trust and Confidence Survey, conducted in 2023 after the introduction of the new firearm registry, shows rock bottom levels of confidence in Police and the new Firearms Safety Authority. The annual survey asked licensed firearm owners ... More >>
Resignations Are An Appropriate Response For Firearm Data Breach
Thursday, 27 July 2023, 3:48 pm | NZ Council Of Licensed Firearms Owners
COLFO says the Police Minister should treat very seriously the latest data breach caused by the new Firearm Safety Authority, by promising an explanation, a fix, compensation for affected people, and resignations if errors are made again. COLFO spokesperson ... More >>
Consequences From NZ Police Association Appearance On TVNZ Breakfast
Wednesday, 17 May 2023, 12:57 pm | NZ Council Of Licensed Firearms Owners
The Council of Licensed Firearm Owners (COLFO) is concerned at the unsubstantiated and incomplete evidence that emerged in an interview on live television this week with President of the NZ Police Association, Chris Cahill. Cahill’s interview on ... More >>
COLFO Grateful For Grant To ‘Support Rights Of NZers To Possess Firearms’
Wednesday, 10 May 2023, 9:53 am | NZ Council Of Licensed Firearms Owners
The Council of Licensed Firearm Owners (COLFO) expresses its gratitude for the generous monetary donation by the late Alan Walker, who directed it be used to “support of the rights of New Zealand citizens to possess firearms.” The money was donated ... More >>
Minister Should Audit Firearms License ‘cost Recovery’ Proposed By Police
Thursday, 4 May 2023, 11:16 am | NZ Council Of Licensed Firearms Owners
The Council of Licensed Firearm Owners (COLFO) has asked the Police Minister to audit the proposed fee increases for firearm license holders after revelations Police may have exaggerated its costs to administer the license regime. Police have not ... More >>
Briefing To Police Minister Reveals Risks Of Firearm License Fee Increases To Frontline Officers
Friday, 14 April 2023, 11:08 am | NZ Council Of Licensed Firearms Owners
Last week, the Police Association refused to publish an article by COLFO which detailed objections to the fees and has since run in the New Zealand Herald. The article cites a January briefing to the Police Minister which warned that the high fees proposed ... More >>
New Police Minister Must Check Police Equations Behind Firearm Fee Increase
Monday, 20 March 2023, 4:16 pm | NZ Council Of Licensed Firearms Owners
The newly-minted Police Minister, Ginny Andersen, has been called on by the Council of Licensed Firearm Owners (COLFO) to investigate how the previous Minister allowed Police to propose extraordinary fee increases for licensed firearm owners without ... More >>
Police Will Make $700 Profit Processing A Firearm License
Wednesday, 1 March 2023, 9:39 am | NZ Council Of Licensed Firearms Owners
According to new fees proposed by Police, it takes a staffer 35 hours of work to process one firearms license application. The finding comes from a new analysis by the Council of Licensed Firearm Owners (COLFO) which compared the wages of Police ... More >>
Police To Target Law-abiding Kiwis And Create A Slush Fund
Wednesday, 25 January 2023, 1:09 pm | NZ Council Of Licensed Firearms Owners
The Council of Licensed Firearm Owners (COLFO) has today rallied its members to make submissions against excessive fees proposed by Police that will put public safety at risk. COLFO says the huge expense of the new fees will start the long-term decline ... More >>
Complaint Lodged Against Police Over Error-plagued Firearm Rules
Wednesday, 21 December 2022, 1:54 pm | NZ Council Of Licensed Firearms Owners
The Council of Licensed Firearm Owners (COLFO) has lodged an official complaint this week with Parliament’s Regulations Review Committee over the conduct of Police in assembling new regulations governing firearm clubs and ranges. The Arms Amendment ... More >>
Why You Will Hear More Gunshots At Your Local Shooting Range
Tuesday, 31 May 2022, 2:13 pm | NZ Council Of Licensed Firearms Owners
The Council of Licensed Firearms Owners (COLFO) say recent complaints about increased noise from shooting ranges is due to New Zealand not having enough firearms ranges, and it is about to get worse. COLFO Spokesperson Hugh Devereux-Mack says New Zealand ... More >>
NZ Police Pay $13m To Australian Company For Unhelpful Software
Monday, 30 May 2022, 9:56 am | NZ Council Of Licensed Firearms Owners
The NZ Police are reported to be paying $13m to an Australian software company to develop a firearm register that will make not a single New Zealander safer. Council of Licensed Firearms Owners (COLFO) Chairperson Michael Dowling says he is dismayed ... More >>
Gangs Not Stopped By Firearms Register
Thursday, 26 May 2022, 10:02 am | NZ Council Of Licensed Firearms Owners
New Zealand’s 240,000 licensed firearm owners feel vindicated by the acknowledgement of National Party leader Chris Luxon that a firearm register won’t stop gang crime. After the spate of gang crime in Auckland on Tuesday, Mr Luxon said National would ... More >>
‘Dangerous’ Rules For Firearms Ranges Revealed
Thursday, 28 April 2022, 12:34 pm | NZ Council Of Licensed Firearms Owners
The Council of Licensed Firearms Owners (COLFO) says members making submissions on proposed regulations for firearm clubs and ranges are finding worrying new rules that will diminish public safety rather than improve it. COLFO spokesperson Hugh ... More >>
Supplementary Information On Illegal Firearms
Wednesday, 20 April 2022, 10:33 am | NZ Council Of Licensed Firearms Owners
During the firearm buyback of 2019, many opponents to the scheme said criminals would still hold onto their illegal guns while law-abiding firearms owners handed theirs in. At the time, Mongrel Mob leader Sonny Fatu backed up this claim by saying ... More >>
Licensed Firearms Owners To Police: “It’s Not Personal.”
Friday, 25 March 2022, 10:04 am | NZ Council Of Licensed Firearms Owners
The Council of Licensed Firearm Owners (COLFO) annual survey of members for 2021 shows that while confidence in Police ability to administer firearms laws is low, the unhappiness is with the system, not individual officer’s general conduct. COLFO ... More >>
NZ Not Any Safer Following Legislation Against Firearm Owners
Tuesday, 30 November 2021, 12:31 pm | NZ Council Of Licensed Firearms Owners
Continuing firearm violence means New Zealanders are no safer despite the promises made of legislation passed against licensed firearm owners, according to COLFO. Note: See COLFO's stance on general Police arming here. COLFO spokesperson ... More >>
Govt Announces There Won’t Be An Independent Firearms Authority
Wednesday, 17 November 2021, 3:01 pm | NZ Council Of Licensed Firearms Owners
The new Police firearms unit announced by Police Minister Hon Poto Williams is a far cry from the solution originally promised, and fails victims of the Christchurch terror attack, firearm license holders, and all New Zealanders, says COLFO. The Government ... More >>
Police Do Not Know Source Of 82% Of Criminal Weapons
Friday, 22 October 2021, 3:59 pm | NZ Council Of Licensed Firearms Owners
Research has revealed that although Police claim that the source of illegal firearms is licensed firearm owners, it cannot find the source of 82% of the firearms it seizes – opening the possibility that they enter the country with drugs and other contraband. ... More >>
Arming Police Will Start Arms Race That Everyone Loses: COLFO
Wednesday, 11 August 2021, 1:55 pm | NZ Council Of Licensed Firearms Owners
If the Police Association is successful in its constant agitation for Police to carry firearms at all times, it will trigger an arms race and greater violence with criminals that will also result in harm to ordinary citizens, says the Council of ... More >>
