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Labour’s Selective Memory For Moving MSSA Firearms To A-Category Licenses After 2019
Tuesday, 5 March 2024, 10:04 am | Sporting Shooters Association of New Zealand Inc
The Sporting Shooters Association of New Zealand wishes to highlight the comments made by Opposition MPs, an example being Labour Party leader Chris Hipkins during question time in Parliament on the 28 th of February 2024, that shows a lack of understanding ... More >>
Sporting Shooters Association Of New Zealand Is Optimistic For The Future Of Firearms Ownership With Coalition Formation
Sunday, 26 November 2023, 2:28 pm | Sporting Shooters Association of New Zealand Inc
Friday November 24, 2023 at 630pm Today is the beginning of what will be a significant period for Law Abiding Firearms Owners as a whole. The Sporting Shooters Association of New Zealand (SSANZ) wholeheartedly supports the selection of Nicole Mckee as the ... More >>
Sporting Shooters Association Of New Zealand (SSANZ) Calls Out Blatant Bias In Police Press Release
Tuesday, 3 October 2023, 9:48 pm | Sporting Shooters Association of New Zealand Inc
New Zealand Police are once again showing a political bias in the lead-up to the election. A press release from the 28th of September titled 10,000th person signs up to the Firearms Registry was celebrating the minority of firearms license holders ... More >>
Sporting Shooters Association Of New Zealand (SSANZ) Calls Out Blatant Bias In Police Press Release
Monday, 2 October 2023, 11:12 am | Sporting Shooters Association of New Zealand Inc
New Zealand Police are once again showing a political bias in the lead-up to the election. A press release from the 28th of September titled 10,000th person signs up to the Firearms Registry was celebrating the minority of firearms license holders ... More >>
Criminals Caught With Intelligence On Licensed Firearms Owners!
Tuesday, 12 September 2023, 10:52 am | Sporting Shooters Association of New Zealand Inc
A concerning press release circulated on the 11th of September detailing the recovery of a list of contact details for firearms license holders who reside in the lower North Island. The list of 20 license holders was recovered last Monday and is a concerning ... More >>
Sporting Shooters Seeking Clarification From Gun Control NZ
Wednesday, 9 August 2023, 10:42 am | Sporting Shooters Association of New Zealand Inc
The Sporting Shooters Association of New Zealand calls for caution when relying on Gun Control New Zealand's (GCNZ) most recent report, particularly when it comes to conclusions made about licensed gun owners based on the survey data provided by ... More >>
Sporting Shooters Call For Accountability Over Careless Handling Of Sensitive Info By The Firearms Licensing Authority
Thursday, 27 July 2023, 7:44 pm | Sporting Shooters Association of New Zealand Inc
Sporting Shooters are angry that the first known instance of license holder data being leaked was the result of an entirely preventable error on the part of Authority staff. SSANZ believes that this will validate licensed firearms owner’s concerns ... More >>
Police Taking A Year To Renew A Firearms Licence
Tuesday, 9 August 2022, 11:06 am | Sporting Shooters Association of New Zealand Inc
Why is it taking so long (12 months or more) for police to renew a firearms licence? Could it be that Police are swamped in a mess of their own making. A more important question is why is it the job of Police to renew a licence? These questions are being ... More >>
Full Firearm Registration – A Colossal Central Government Waste Of Taxpayers’ Money Which Can Never ‘work’
Tuesday, 26 July 2022, 2:11 pm | Sporting Shooters Association of New Zealand Inc
Recent claims made to the effect that the implementation of a firearm registration system will contribute to a reduction in violence with firearms is nonsense. Comparison with motor vehicle registration reminds us of the 20,000 motor vehicles reportedly ... More >>
Gun Control Advocate Dr Hera Cook Wants To Ban Advertising Of Firearms
Friday, 22 July 2022, 5:24 pm | Sporting Shooters Association of New Zealand Inc
In an interview on RNZ Dr Hera Cook suggested that since the Christchurch Massacre in 2019 gun crime was not really getting worse, it only seemed that it was because it was being more frequently reported in Media as police cracked down on gangs. She ... More >>
Sporting Shooters Welcome New Police Minister
Wednesday, 15 June 2022, 5:13 am | Sporting Shooters Association of New Zealand Inc
"The Sporting Shooters Association of New Zealand welcomes the appointment of Chris Hipkins as a replacement for the ineffective Poto Williams.” Says President Neville Dodd. “We hope he will deal openly and honestly with the concerns of law-abiding ... More >>
Police Incompetence
Wednesday, 8 June 2022, 11:00 am | Sporting Shooters Association of New Zealand Inc
The revelation that documents stolen from an abandoned Auckland police station contained the names and addresses of licensed firearm owners has outraged gun owners. Said Chaz Forsyth, President of the Sporting Shooters Association, “The fact that these ... More >>
P.M.s Tour Promoting NZ Or Herself
Friday, 3 June 2022, 11:17 am | Sporting Shooters Association of New Zealand Inc
Headlined as a trade mission, the Prime Ministers tour of the USA seems to be more focused on what she has done with respect to gun laws and climate change than trade. The door opened for her as her arrival into the States coincided with a school massacre ... More >>
A Gun Register Won’t Stop Gang Shootings
Monday, 30 May 2022, 5:47 am | Sporting Shooters Association of New Zealand Inc
Sunday, May 29, 2022 @ 20:30 hr Following the latest horrendous Texas school shooting our Prime Minister is receiving accolades while visiting the US for her decisive action to ban semi-automatics following our own March 2019 Christchurch massacre. ... More >>
Seven Shooting Incidents Across Auckland
Wednesday, 25 May 2022, 7:50 pm | Sporting Shooters Association of New Zealand Inc
Wednesday, May 25, 2022 @ 17:30 hr President of the Sporting Shooters Association, Chaz Forsyth says “this level of gang violence in our biggest city is a clear indication, that all the Government firearm legislation since March 2019 has been a complete ... More >>
We Are One – But Really We Are Not
Monday, 23 May 2022, 12:04 pm | Sporting Shooters Association of New Zealand Inc
‘We Are One’ was the catch cry after the Christchurch Mosque shootings. Some consequences of that tragedy made a mockery of what unity we may have had, when the NZ Government and the NZ Police began targeting responsible, law abiding NZ firearms ... More >>
We Need Gang Control NOT Gun Control
Thursday, 19 May 2022, 12:47 pm | Sporting Shooters Association of New Zealand Inc
Appearing on News Talk ZB in response to reports of two more gang related shooting incidents in Wairoa, and the failure of people to report them, Police Association President Chris Cahill claimed “It’s why we’ve been arguing for so long about ... More >>
Public Need To Know The Truth
Tuesday, 17 May 2022, 10:43 am | Sporting Shooters Association of New Zealand Inc
Propaganda is communication that is used to influence or persuade an audience to further an agenda. It is a political tool and we’ve seen it used powerfully during the recent years by our government. Truth is not necessarily its goal or purpose, ... More >>
$208 Million To Satisfy Government Curiosity
Monday, 9 May 2022, 11:09 am | Sporting Shooters Association of New Zealand Inc
On Sunday the government announced it will spend an extra $ 562 Million on the police. "Much of the money is focused on firearms, with $208m being spent establishing a new Firearms Business Unit within police, that will oversee the new Firearms Register. ... More >>
Police Tighten Their Anti Gun Ownership Even Further
Tuesday, 29 March 2022, 9:46 am | Sporting Shooters Association of New Zealand Inc
A 137-page discussion document has been launched by Police regarding the future Police approval and certification of shooting ranges. Clubs and individuals have just 6 weeks to lodge their thoughts and feedback on the proposed changes. Chaz Forsyth, ... More >>
