tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post11001197926689172..comments2024-03-28T06:02:08.977-07:00Comments on Irons in the Fire: I've been told New Zealand is a beautiful place that has a lot of nanny-stateFirehandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04562365951182027709noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post-19015129187581021792009-07-16T05:41:44.962-07:002009-07-16T05:41:44.962-07:00Time to make that "military-style" weapo...Time to make that "military-style" weapon be lost.<br />"Why haven't you renewed your rifle license?"<br />"I lost it."<br />"Oh?"<br />"I took it on the boat with me & it dropped overboard in over 100 feet of ocean."<br /><br />What's the policeman going to do? Call you a liar? Probably. But unless our EnZed friend is a complete and utter klutz, he should be able to hide his rifle and play ring-around-the-cop for a loooonnnnngggg time.<br /><br />B Woodman<br />SSG (Ret) US Army<br />IIIAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515829.post-68791618896495269802009-07-16T04:41:09.543-07:002009-07-16T04:41:09.543-07:00I think it was in the 80s that NZ bastocrats wante...I think it was in the 80s that NZ bastocrats wanted to bring in regs like the 1972 British green paper that was resurrected as the british acts of '88 and 97.<br /><br />During the consultation process it was made clear to the legislators that the then current laws based on the British 1968 act served no practical purpose in keeping guns out of the hands of criminals.<br /><br />It must be a unique event in history, but the legislators listened, and although licencing was retained, it became a pretty much "shall issue" and for life affair. <br /><br />Seems the lft never gives up trying to control everything for the sake of controling, as there is no evidence of any benefit from any of the commonwealth countries' stupid British style gun laws.<br /><br />KeithKeithnoreply@blogger.com