Copyright 1996-2002, Council of Licensed Firearms Owners.

It was chaired by Dr Jack McConchie, Convenor Firearm Safety Committee, New Zealand Mountain Safety Council (Inc). The  web site http://www.firearmsafetyseminar.org.nz/ was setup for the conference but no longer exists. This pages is intended to make available some of the material from this event as presented on a CD at the time.

The Seminar aimed to:

• call attention to responsible and safe firearm use
• motivate quality research into firearm safety
• exchange ideas, concepts, strategies and procedures for firearm safety
• encourage community participation in firearm safety
• assist Pacific Island States with firearm safety and training

It was organised by:

• New Zealand Police ~ www.police.govt.nz
• Mountain Safety Council (Inc) ~ www.mountainsafety.org.nz
• The New Zealand Council of Licensed Firearms Owners (Inc) ~ www.colfo.org.nz

And supported by:

The official media releases:

Firearm Safety Seminar media release 1 : released 29 May, 2005   FASS-MediaRelease_1.doc

Firearm Safety Seminar media release 2 : released 20 December, 2005    FASS-MediaRelease_2.doc

Material from the CD distributed from the seminar:

Annette Kings Speech (13KB PDF)

The Barnes paper (647KB PDF) and presentation (410KB PowerPoint)

The Barton Paper (408KB PDF)

Beautrais presentation (191KB PowerPoint)

Capie paper (26KB PDF)

Forsyth presentation (75KB PowerPoint)

Forsyth Weatherston paper (345KB PDF)

Green and Spray presentation (1700KB PowerPoint)

Green Paper (34KB PDF)

Greenwood paper (77KB PDF)

Lawrence paper (28KB PDF) and presentation (3384KB PowerPoint)

Lott paper (2772KB PDF)

L Provost speech (17KB PDF)

Mauser paper (177KB PDF) and presentation (1085KB PowerPoint)

Mouzos presentation (1085KB PowerPoint)

Nelson Paper (36KB PDF)

Patterson paper (31KB PDF)

R Meder speech (19KB PDF)

Slings paper (35KB PDF)

Smiths paper (47KB PDF)

Watkins and Keefe presentation (232KB PowerPoint)