Hore among duckshooters facing charges

Former All Black Andrew Hore is one of the four Maniototo men facing firearms charges following an incident in which a duckshooter was injured on the opening day of the duck-shooting season.

Each of the men face a charge laid under the Arms Act, relating to the incident near Paerau on May 2, and they will appear in the Alexandra District Court on Tuesday.

Andrew Keith Hore (36), of Patearoa, is charged with supplying a firearm to an unlicensed person.

He was given a registrar's adjournment to Tuesday and his counsel did not seek name suppression on his behalf.

The maximum penalty for the offence is three months' jail or a fine of $1000.

Two 25-year-old Ranfurly men are jointly charged with possessing a firearm without a licence and a 23-year-old Ranfurly man is charged with possessing a firearm while his firearms licence was revoked.

The three men have yet to have lawyers assigned to their respective cases and have been given registrar's adjournments to Tuesday.

The maximum penalty for possessing a firearm without a licence is three months' jail or a fine of $1000, while the charge of possessing a firearm while a firearms licence has been revoked carries a maximum penalty of one year's jail or $4000 fine.

After the duck-shooting incident, police said a group of shooters had been travelling in an all-terrain vehicle on farmland near Paerau when the vehicle went over a rise and a hunter and two shotguns fell out.

One shotgun discharged, hitting the man in the arm.

The man received ''a large entry and exit wound to his arm'', a St John spokeswoman said at the time.

He was discharged from hospital in mid-May.

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