FIREARM SAFETY
New System Adopted (N.Z. Press Association) • NELSON. August A The Oxnam five-point system of firearm safety was adopted unanimously by the fourteenth annual conference of the New Zealand Deerstalkers' Association today as its code for instruction. The five basic firearm safety rules are: Check the firearm. Load the magazine only when reaching your chosen hunting ground. Use half-open bolt when in state of readiness. Identify your target. Consider your firing zone. Delegates agreed that uniformity was needed for firearm safety instruction. Sergeant N. B. Oxnam, of the Nelson police, said his ambition was to see the proposal adopted by the association, which could then lend its weight to having it adopted officially as a national code so that legislation could be prepared making it an offence to breach any of the five points. “It is not responsible people like you who are causing the trouble," he said.
“It is the people outside this organisation and other similar organisations whom we want to get at and the only way to do that is through legislation." The question of implementing the system was discussed at length, and some considered that the best approach would be through proposed schools on firearm safety which branches could conduct
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30201, 5 August 1963, Page 3
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