13/10/2026
CAN THE FSE LEOPARD CHANGE ITS FSA SPOTS?
Our post on 9 October really kicked the hornet's nest, and rightly so—the FSA's submission to the MOJ on the Arms Act in early 2025 is nothing short of a sucker punch to the community. A punch that was only blocked by the Minister and MOJ.
But why should we care about the FSA? They were shut down a few weeks ago, right? The bad eggs and blue-shirt anti-gun factions are gone, right?
Well, you would think so... but SSANZ started noticing a distinct lack of job ads in the final months of the FSA. We started asking questions. It turns out that essentially all the staff that were in the FSA moved to Fi***rm Safety and Education (FSE).
Same people, same policies and biases, same roles and influence, but different uniforms, as shown in the OIA response. And for some of these particular staff members we have in mind, this is their third uniform change, as they were originally Police with roles in fi****ms administration pre-2019.
That is why shining a light on the FSA is just as important as monitoring what the FSE is up to. It provides important context for what we need to look out for going forward.
Initial indications are that the FSE is carrying on the FSA's projects which they inherited. We need to make sure the FSE doesnt follow the same path the FSA when they turned into an anti-fi***rm organisation paid for by the tax payer (including license holders).
We would welcome the Chief Executive committing to a firm rejection of the various harmful policies pushed by the blue shift clique within the FSA. Many of which we will be showcasing this month to all of you. We have the full FSA submission to the Ministry of Justice and will be circulating it in due course.
If the FSE is to be a truly independent entity it needs to discard the Police/FSA policy influences (and influencers) that justified the FSA's dissolution and the creation of the FSE. We are not here to try the same things for a third time. And if the blue shirt clique cannot respect the fact the FSE is not the FSA, then we dont believe they should be employed by the FSE and we hope the CE takes a similar view. Policy should be able to be contested openly, not sold in a echo chamber where we only come across it after the fact by OIA.
We will not take kindly to any evidence of anyone's persistence in undermining the FSE in its foundational stages. If the FSE does not succeed, then it will simply go back to the Police when the political winds change. This is an outcome license holders cannot afford.
We cannot understate the importance that this election will have for us. We need a Fi****ms Minister to serve as the check and balance on the blue shirt clique who have a misguided belief that they are fi***rm experts. If you want to keep your fi****ms safe, vote for Nicole McKee, an actual fi****ms expert, and ACT.
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