Welcome

Please check this page again in the near future as we update it with Political Party information regularly.

Welcome to the website of the New Zealand Council of Licensed Firearms Owners Inc (COLFO)

Created in 1996 by a meeting of existing firearms user organisations COLFO is New Zealand's largest voluntary firearms user organisation. Follow the links for information about us, our membership, objects, policies and positions, reports, projects, media releases, United Nations.

Click here to go directly to our Political Page

"COLFO exists to protect the rights and privileges of responsible New Zealand firearms owners and users.

To be effective we must be able applaud MPs, political parties, candidates and policies, but the Electoral Finance Act constricts that right. However, the upcoming election will be the 5th we have faced and we will continue to use all of the tools available to us to ensure that the rights of our members and supporters remain undiminished. We shall continue to criticise or applaud policies that are firearms related, and we shall continue to criticise or applaud individual MPs and parties on the basis of their policies"

I also encourage you to keep an eye on the COLFO web site over the coming weeks as we move into election mode. It is in development at this stage.

John Howat

Chairman NZ Council of Licensed Firearms Owners Inc.

UPDATED (16/06/08)

Check the Library or Positions papers page recently updated with the latest 3 ratified at the last COLFO AGM

An interesting site on Journalism and firearms:

The Journalist's Guide to Gun Violence Coverage, Making sense of spin in the news by Dr. Michael Brown