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2 WEDNESDAY 28 November 2012
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“I was working otherwise I would have. I was pretty bummed that I couldn’t go.”
“No I didn’t. I just had other things on.”
“No we didn’t go this year. We’ve been before but had other plans both days.”
“I’ve got severe heart failure and I can’t walk around very much. I’ve been before and enjoyed it though.
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Police say firearm licences remain steady
the problems with them. We look at people, not just how they would be with a firearm. A lot of young guys who are highest in the country. Police average 80 revocations a driving boy racer-style apply and if we can’t trust them in year, where the licence is taken off people, and 10 refusals. a car, why would we trust them with a firearm and that’s Inspector Ross Lienert, who oversees the firearms team, something we tell them.” says while stats have been steady they are expecting a To earn a firearms licence applicants need to sit a mounsurge in renewals as the ten year licence scheme was in- tain safety council-run course, have an interview with troduced in 1992, meaning many who had their licence an officer and have their next of kin and another referee then will be renewing it for the third term. He says staff available for interview. will be added as they’re needed over the next few years. Ross says police will sometimes have an “honest converFirearms licensing officer Dana Weir says the policy to get sation” with some people who are thinking of applying, only “fit and proper” people using firearms seems to be which helps keep the refusal number so low. working. “To look at a firearm it’s a piece of wood and a Morgan says gun safety is extremely important and all piece of metal, it’s the people using the firearms that cause of the deaths in the bush could have been avoided. “The number one rule is that you have to identify your target and you haven’t National List MP based identified your target if you’ve shot in West Coast –Tasman someone. That’s the long and short of P 0800 NATS MP (0800 628 767) it.” E Chris.AuchinvoleMP@parliament.govt.nz Dana says the biggest issue police have with licence holders is that they don’t FROM PAGE 1
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Firearms staff from left; Evan Garland, Dana Weir, Inspector Ross Lienert and Rachel Rainton-Graham. update their address when they move house. “It’s an easy fix, they can just go onto the website and change it there, or give us a call. I’ve got a pile of renewal letters, reminding people that they need to renew their licence, that can’t go out because we don’t have their address.” Failing to update your address can be grounds for revocation or a $500 fine. For more information visit www.po lice.govt.nz/service/firearms.
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