Built to help my daughter get ready for her test

I’m Scott, a Kiwi hunter and former Mountain Safety Council firearms safety instructor. I built this to help my daughter get ready for her test. I hope it helps you too.

What I learned supervising the theory test

As an instructor I supervised people sitting their firearms licence theory test under the old Arms Act. It was 30 multiple-choice questions. In the tests I supervised, the pass was 28 out of 30, and any Seven Rules question wrong failed you, whatever else you got right.

That second part is the one people don’t expect. You can know most of the material and still fail on a single rule. So FAL Ready treats the Seven Rules as the thing that matters most: you drill them, put them in order, and then recite all seven, and the app marks a recital the way an instructor would — word for word is a tick, the right idea in your own words is a tick, and missing a key part is wrong.

FSE doesn’t publish the theory test pass mark today, and the test now sits inside FSE’s firearms safety course. So the app never says “pass”. A mock that scores 28 or more, with every Seven Rules question right, is marked At our standard: my standard, from the tests I watched, and nothing more official than that.

FSE teaches. FAL Ready makes it stick.

The course and FSE’s free e-learning modules are where you learn this, and FAL Ready doesn’t try to replace them. Its recaps are short on purpose, and each topic links to FSE’s own module, opened in Safari inside the app. What the app adds is the part a course can’t give you: the same questions asked again, at your own pace, until the answers are yours.

How the questions are made

A study aid that is wrong is worse than none. So there are 175 questions, every one written from scratch, and every answer shows where it comes from: the Firearms Safety Code, the Arms Act 2026, the Arms Regulations 2026 or one of FSE’s own pages.

Each question is checked independently against its source, and none reaches the app until I have read it and approved it. The Firearms Safety Code was written before the Arms Act 2026, so where the law has moved on, mostly storage and transport, the questions follow the 2026 law and say so.

If you think one is wrong, I want to hear about it. Email [email protected] with the question, the answer you think is right, and where you read it.

What FAL Ready is not

It isn’t official. FAL Ready is an independent study aid made in Christchurch. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or approved by FSE, New Zealand Police, the Mountain Safety Council or any government agency, and my Mountain Safety Council background is just that: a background, not an endorsement.

It doesn’t replace the firearms safety course, and it can’t promise you a licence. Passing our mock tests does not guarantee you will pass the official test or be granted a licence.

And it doesn’t watch you. No account, no analytics, no ads, and nothing about your practice reaches me. Your progress stays on your iPhone and, unless you turn it off, in your own private iCloud. The privacy policy has the detail.

For schools, clubs and NZDA branches

If you teach or mentor new shooters — a school, an NZDA branch, an FSE-approved club — ask me about Apple offer codes that give your learners 50% off the unlock. They need iOS 18.4 or later to redeem. Email [email protected].

Who else is behind it

Nobody. FAL Ready is one person’s app, made in Christchurch. “By HuntFix” is the name I publish my apps under. It is sold in New Zealand only, on iPhone only, because that’s where its test is.