Thank your fellow liberal gun owners for putting their virtual signaling over our 2A. Firearm channels that do not actively promote 2A activism and staunch beliefs need to be held accountable, too many firearm channels (looking at you Gun Jesus, Karl from Inrange, and many others) refused to vote for "orange man" and instead voted for a candidate that supports such a sweeping gun control platform that makes Hillary look pro gun.
No more of these liberal gun channels, they are WOLVES IN SHEEPS CLOTHING. Demand 2A activism from those that profit from it!
Yeah, but then it’s just a waiting game of attrition. After a few years of gun owners being too afraid to practice our rights we will be viewed as an even crazier and further fringe group than we are already demonized as. After a while a very ignorant public opinion will easily be swayed to outright ban them.
That's now our issue in NZ, plenty of banned firearms still out there that people didn't hand in but no one can use them except our outlaw mc and ethnic gangs who generally disregard the law anyway.
Even if our laws change in the future to allow them again, they will likely need to be registered so anyone that held onto them won't be able to register them as they were unlawfully held so they end up in the same place, some pvc piping buried in the back yard.
An ironic unintended consequence to the govt and police is that the 99% of firing ranges in NZ are privately owned by individuals or owned by clubs, as per law they all have to have range standing orders that all users need to agree to. Those RSO's all prohibit the use of "prohibited firearms" and NZ police have to abide by them when using the ranges for training. Every club that has been approached by police to put an exemption in their RSO's to allow them to use their bushmasters for training have told them to go and pound sand.
This means that police can only use their one range and 2 military base ranges for training for the entire police force nationwide which is a massive inconvenience to them. The club that I am a member of has downright banned police from using the range in any official category, individual officers can join and use the range as a private member but cannot use prohibited firearms. Unlike the US, NZ police cannot take their service weapons home or to the range outside of official training or on the job callouts where firearms are specifically needed.