Anti-civilian gun ownership proponents

Rodney Hide MP

Widely acknowledged as one of the country's most effective politicians, Rodney Hide is a tireless promoter of ACT's vision of a free and prosperous New Zealand where the role of government is limited to protecting the freedoms of its citizens.

Act Party News

Philip Alpers is a former television presenter and currently works in Australia. He is a prolific anti-gun campaigner.

SSAA report on Philip Alpers

Ron Mark

Before entering politics, Mark served in the New Zealand Army and in both the Sultan of Oman's Armed Forces and the Sultan of Oman's Special Forces.

Former NZ First MP and currently might be standing for Mayor of Carterton. Ron has a military background and a very pragmatic attitude towards civilian gun ownership. He opposed universal registration proposed in AA3

Ron Mark MP profile

Ron Mark Arms Amendment Bill, 2nd reading

Currently the national manager of operations for the NZ police department.  Tony McLeod is believed to be the principle author of the failed police policy to reclassify sporting semi-automatic firearms as MSSAs. Tony is also quoted as saying that sporting semi-automatic rifles are "assault weapons." He is also a member of "ANEW", a disarmament group.

Former ACT MP and currently a principal of specialist Wellington law firm Franks and Ogilvie.

Stephens goals for firearms law amendment

Currently Mayor of Waitakere City (soon to be disestablished.) Bob wanted to ban the Auckland gun fair from council facilities because he believed it sent the "wrong message." When questioned by the NSA as to what the 'message" was and what was the 'wrongness' of it, Bob was unable to provide an answer. Notably the Mayor does not have the jurisdiction to  determine the use of Council facilities.

Gay Keating

Gay is the director of the public health association. Gay Keating seems to believe that hunters in New Zealand use machine guns for hunting deer.

Public statements by Gay Keating

PHA gun policy

Keith Locke

Keith is a supporter of oppressive firearms laws in NZ in line with his Green party gun control policy. These include universal registration of all "weapons" by people holding a firearms certificate for the stated purpose of assisting police with investigating gun crime. It is uncertain how many criminals hold a firearms certificate and how many criminals would comply with registration to assist police in investigating crimes committed by themselves.

Green party gun policy

Oxfam international are a charitable organisation that also use donations to further the cause of oppressive gun control. The NSA endorses the charitable work done by OXFAM but opposes the use of donations for antigun campaigning

Control Arms

Barry Coats. NZ Executive Director of Oxfam

Tony Wall

NZ Journalist from TV2's local investigative show Illegal NZ which looked at the illegal trade of firearms in NZ.

It is not fully understood if Mr Wall is actually anti-gun or more just pro-sensational reporting on a subject that  can draw emotional responses from people who lack proper understanding of firearms.