Cam Slater: The Astonishing Dishonesty of Chris Cahill

On Wednesday afternoon Police Association boss Chris Cahill went on The Platform to defend the lack of prosecution of a police officer who illegally accessed the Police National Intelligence Application in order to locate firearms licence details of third parties so he could use their licence details to hide his purchase of firearms from his missus.

We already covered this, after the IPCA ticked off police for ignoring two obvious crimes. Remember the police, and Chris Cahill in particular, have been banging on about “straw buyers” as they push, via their media lickspittles, straw buying as the justification for the new and failing gun register.

Tim Dower: Is owning a gun a right or a privilege?

Hard to believe it's taken so long to get this new firearms register up and running.

Then again - it's a government IT project and we all know there's a well-established track record of these things going way past deadline and of course way over budget.

On top of that, it's likely to be clunky, overly complicated and not very well thought out so don't be at all surprised if it needs a multi-million dollar overhaul within the first couple of years.

Cam Slater: Police Fantasy Dressed Up as News

The police jihad against licensed firearms owners continues at pace. Yesterday the NZ Herald ran an article about a figment of the police’s fervent and dimwitted imagination, that “straw buyers” are buying guns to on-sell to criminals.

Cam Slater: At Least the Register Will Be Safe and Secure

The police are forging on with their arms register, assuring us all that everything will work as planned and it will be safe and secure. No matter that people involved in the project are quietly telling others that the project isn’t fit for purpose and that the software selected has more holes than a colander.

The government is 100% adamant that it is going live with the register in June. It won’t be anywhere near complete, but the government wants to announce this before the election. Currently 50 people are working on it. What they want and what will be delivered in the time available are vastly different.