“ACT today welcomes a correction of the record in Parliament from Poto Williams after she repeatedly used incorrect figures,” says ACT Firearms Law Reform spokesperson Nicole McKee.
“Poto Williams, Stuart Nash and other Government Ministers have repeatedly said that 60,000 Military Style Semi-Automatic firearms (MSSAs) were handed over in the gun buyback. The reality is that only 15,000 were MSSAs, the rest were newly prohibited firearms.
“This was a gross misrepresentation of the gun buyback. The Minister was trying to make it look like all the guns that law abiding firearms owners were handing in were MSSAs. This was not even close to reality.
“That’s why I wrote to the Minister on behalf of firearms owners asking her to correct the record.
“The firearms community has felt vilified by this Government and today’s acknowledgement from Williams is a small step towards repairing the relationship. But it’s not nearly enough.
“Next, she needs to ensure that the licencing system is up to scratch, instead of leaving people waiting months, and in some cases years for their licences to be processed or renewed.
“Law abiding firearms users who are hunters, pest controllers and sports shooters have felt targeted by this Government.
“Police Minister Poto Williams needs to give an assurance that she’s working to fix the licensing system and the relationship with firearms users.”
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I personally think that law abiding licensed firearms owners were at the end of a knee jerk reaction by Ardern after the Mosque attack in Christchurch by an Australian who hood winked the NZ Police by using false pretenses into obtaining a NZ firearms license. The NZ Police did not follow their own due process into proper back ground checks on Tarant and failed miserably in their duty. Ardern then made NZ law abiding firearms users the scapegoats so she should could show case to the world she had taken action. Since the firearm buyback two years ago! Criminals have used unregistered firearms to shoot over one hundred people in New Zealand. Under all this guise the Labour Government are committed to the UN Agenda 21 agreement that all citizens have their firearms confiscated
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This isnt a government. Its a band of elitists that want to rip of the tax payer in any way they can for as long as it lasts
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