I see this crap as a continuation of WA's long tradition of suppressing guns and hunting, whereby the Western frontier continues its journey to become the nanny state.

I think the squatters had some part in this way back, not wanting random landless shooters on their runs. Why the Labor government has joined them is a little harder to understand.

thank you for the heads up as it seems our glorious supreme leader is always trying to copy the ... best... coming from autralia and new zealand related to gun bans ...

Those bastards NEED to be voted out!

Way past time you guys join together and change thigs back to the way it should be.

George

We all agree George but we live in democracies. Legal gun owners in NZ about 5% of the population. In Australia about 3%. Politically we are not irrelevant but can usually be ignored.

Perhaps hunters and shooters should make themselves more visible.

First, as successors to two-or-three million years of hunting tradition, we represent the most continuous means of making a living hominids have ever known.

However, many would-be hunters have been cowed by the feminised influences in society, the media and politics, and this explains largely why deer may be getting out of control - because too few people are out there chasing them.

Our trump card is that we tend to occupy the middle ground in politics. Though, mostly a bit conservative, many hunters in this country tend to be from the working class and therefore were tradionally inclined to vote Labor.

Unlike gays and greenies, our preferences are more likely go either way, and the two big political parties should be reminded to remember that.

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because too few people are out there chasing them.

Circa 50,000 registered deer hunters in Vic show that there are more than ever cobber. Perhaps the modern man isn't as good a hunter.

The biggest trouble right now is that in Nz we still have the mentality of only shooting what we need, and waiting for a stag/buck/bull. But the deer population in many areas is getting out of control again.
We need to really up our kill rate on females.

Yes, Gryphon, there are plenty of registered deer hunters now - but still few compared with the US. I haven't seen too many where we go hunting, though, and I'm glad of that for myself.

During covid the number of hunters was down considerably, however, helping the critters to breed up. I argued with our local member that we just wanted to be alone out there but the ring of steel remained.