A summary of the NZSRA’s objectives is:
- To promote Service Rifle shooting at International, National, and Club level throughout New Zealand.
- To provide a consistent set of rules and procedures (Service Match Code v 5)
- To organise National Championships
- To provide an organisation membership of which would support individual ownership of Service Rifles
- To provide a central organising body for other external bodies to refer to.
- To create recognition by the NZ Police of Service Rifle shooting as a sport and to recognise it as a legitimate and properly controlled reason for using MSSAs.