Bye B....

[king1]

it is ok, no-one is trying to do that...

Yes, that is exactly what they are trying to do. Clubs are now suffering because of the cost and complexity of new laws, supposedly to make things "safer" in a sport that has always been pretty much the safest sport there is. There is almost no accident data for target shooting because there are almost no accidents. So why spend money on admin that clubs can't afford when there are more dangerous things to deal with? Hunting accidents do happen and are expensive individually, but are also very few and far between in relation to the numbers of people out there doing it.

All industries suffer from the same impositions, no-one is being singled out... 

It starts with governments (and departments) being held responsible or accountable for harm (legally and politically), and as such ends with governments needing to do everything possible to eliminate the risk of such harm...  Nanny state at its finest, but simply what we as a society have created in NZ...  I blame the activists...