If you wish to join the Whangarei Pistol Club, you need to talk to the Club Secretary.


If you have not got your A licence (standard firearms licence) you will need to get this.
You will also need a B or E Category safe.

Download the PNZ Members Handbook

Once you have joined you start your six month probation period, You must attend and participate in 12 club shoots within that six month period.
You can complete your 12 club shoots before the six months, but you are still on a six month probation period.

You will also go through a 4 stage basic training programme with the Club Trainer, covering *Range Safety *Safe Pistol Handling *Range Commands
*Live Fire Exercise. Training will be on a club day one Sunday a month, which will have to be signed off by the Club  Trainer.
The Manual can be downloaded from here  Click Here

You will also need to become a Club Range Officer. To do this you will have learned the range commands in the basic training programme and pass the club R/O safety test.

 You now need to put them into practice on the range under the supervision of a Qualified Range Officer, you have to show you can run a live range safely.
You then need to be signed off by at least four Section Directors of our disciplines (Steel, Service, IPSC, NRA, ISSF),
once this has been passed you can sit a multi-choice test which will be sent to Pistol New Zealand.

You will all so need to become Holster Qualified to do this you need to download the Holster Qualification Manual,
The Manual can be downloaded from here Click Here.
Then talk to one of the Holster Trainers. You will need to do a Holster Training Course, the course will take about half a day with some live firing,
and you will need 50 rounds.Once you have passed the course you will need to show you are safe to draw and move with a live pistol
and be signed off by the Holster Trainer/ Supervisor. Once this has been passed you can send $30.00 and assessment sheet to Pistol New Zealand.

Before any of the above has been undertaken you cannot take a pistol out of its bag, load a pistol, fire a pistol, unless under the supervision of a Qualified Range Officer
or a B licence holder.
 

At the end of your six month probation period if all of the above has been passed and signed off you may apply for your B licence (pistol)
 which means you need to ask the Club Secretary or the Club President to put your application for a (B) licence endorsement forward to the Club Committee at the next club meeting.
 

If it is passed you then take the endorsement and $204.00 which you pay at the post office to the Whangarei Police Station,
(You cannot own or buy a pistol until your licence is sent to you from the NZ Police).
 NOTE: This may take up to 12 months from the time you started to the time you receive your licence.

You may be turned down for a B licence (pistol) if any of the five Section Directors,
 Qualified Range Officers or the Club Committee does not think you are safe with a pistol or ready to own a pistol.

You may talk to the Club President about what you can do to obtain a B Licence. (It may be you need more time with a Pistol, or to work on Safety)