Friday, 10 September 2010
The country’s firearms owners want to see a ‘prohibited persons register’ developed that will help guide the licensing of firearms in this country to only fit and proper persons.

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Dear Members

I am now getting into a routine with reporting on the work COLFO is doing on your behalf.

In the past 2 months we have continued to meet with stakeholders. We have met with Police in National office at Assistant Commissioner level and National Operations level Read More

Dear Members

This is my second update on the work COLFO is doing on your behalf. My intent is to keep you informed, as much as I am able on what we are up to. The frequency of these updates will increase as we get all of the relationships bedded in.

In the past six months we h Read More

Dear Members

I want to take this opportunity to introduce myself as Chair of COLFO.

My name is Michael Dowling, I live in Wellington and have been on the COLFO Board for a little over a year now.  I was originally approached by the Board and asked to consider the role as Read More

Tightening NZ gun laws (4:46)
Added: 8:57AM Wednesday April 07, 2010
Source: Breakfast

“Four people are dead in two separate shooting incidents in the past three days.”

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Friday, 4 June 2010
The organisation representing the majority of New Zealand’s licenced firearms owners is today cautioning against knee jerk responses in our country to the tragic mass shooting in England.

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Call for dumping of outdated firearms bill

Firearms users are calling for the withdrawal of the Arms Amendment Bill No.3.

They want it replaced, instead, with a NEW act that will provide clear legislation, supported by sensible regulations to cover firearms ownership and use Read More

The country’s largest voluntary shooting related organisation says it does not sanction sales of guns to unlicenced minors, and expects those who do to feel the full force of the law.

The comments from the Council of Licenced Firearms Owners, COLFO, follow the screening Read More

There has been much interest in the case bought by Mr Lincoln against the police over the new MSSA interpretations. In the interest of informing the firearms community we have decided to provide the judgement here.

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MSSA Recategorising - Update

COLFO has been in discussion with the NZ Police in relation to the new definitions as applied to MSSA’s.  We are now in a position to be able to confirm that the police have decided to go ahead and implement the changes. The police have Read More

By Trevor Dyke  COLFO Spokesperson

For some time now COLFO has been saying that it will only take another Aramoana to activate the antigun hysteria, and during May such an incident occurred in Napier when Jan Molenaa Read More

Press Release

Call for Tougher Gun Law

The tragic Napier shooting of police officers and a member of the public by Jan Molenaar has without a doubt been a shock to the nation, as expected this event has  bought calls for tougher gun law.   New Read More

Tom Mason has been doing UN firearms matters since 1995.  He is the Executive Secretary – US -  for the WFSA.  He handled COLFO’s successful application to be an UN NGO.  NGO status is important because it gives one automatic access to UN Conferences.  Ther Read More

The Annual General meeting of the Council of Licensed Firearms Owners was held on Sunday 26 April 2009 at Wellington.

The meeting focused on the successes achieved by COLFO over the past years and in particular the success of obtaining recognition as a non government agency wi Read More

NZ Council of Licensed Firearms Owners Inc

Report of the Board of Management 2008 - 2009

On behalf of the Board I present this report of our activities for the period 1st April 2008 – 31st March 2009. This is not the COLFO financial year – it is the time b Read More