Responsible Voter

 This election has the potential to be one of more critical elections that the New Zealand voter and responsible fire arms owners have ever faced. The outcome of this may not be clear cut and we may see smaller parties able to dictate quite strong terms before giving their support to form a government. This is a factor of MMP, and we have seen this in action previously with minor party’s policies being progressed as a condition of support to form a government.

  The Electoral Finances Act will impact on the abilities of the media and interested groups to disseminate information that supports any particular view point, or more importantly criticises a candidate or party.

 COLFO has taken the stance that we shall make every effort to ensure firearms owners are informed in relation to all the parties policies and more importantly how their firearms policies will affect licensed firearms owners.

To this end you will soon be getting responsible voter bumper stickers which will be supplied through your affiliated national body. This will help to remind politicians that we are interested in their party policies. 

The COLFO position is clearly outlined in our published policies and our constitution.

New Zealand firearms laws are recognised internationally as some of the best laws in the world and COLFO will be doing everything possible to ensure that the New Zealand shooting fraternity continue to enjoy our sporting activities as we have to date.

 Please review the policies of the various parties and if in doubt ask them what their policies mean, and how they will effort your sport going forward

Let them know that this is important to you, and where you find politicians with policies that you feel support your own position, offer them fiscal and support with their campaigning

Please encourage your local clubs to offer local politicians the opportunity to address your members, or have them attend public meetings to show support, or to question policies.

 COLFO will be approaching all the major political parties to try to obtain their position on firearms legislation and we shall disseminate this to the members through your national bodies and this web site.

In the interim I have placed some links to NZ political parties below to help you find what they have to say on various subjects. 

Gary Howat

  

Click on the image to go to each parties site (in no particular order)