Western Australia – Police in Western Australia have carried out a series of gun seizures targeting licensed firearms owners accused of holding “sovereign citizen” views — a loosely defined belief system that rejects government authority.
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The move, authorities say, was prompted by the fatal shooting of two police officers in neighboring Victoria in August.
Gun Seizures & Suspensions
Over the span of five days in late September and early October, police visited 70 properties, seizing 135 firearms and suspending or revoking 44 gun licenses, according to Western Australia Police Commissioner Col Blanch.
“The mission of this operation was simple,” Blanch said. “To validate and verify our intelligence on who may hold sovereign citizen ideologies here in Western Australia.”
He added that police relied on “social media posts and information from other gun owners” to identify individuals who were subsequently deemed unfit to possess firearms. Under the state’s law, only a person considered a “fit and proper person”, whatever that means, may hold a gun license.
“If you have made it very clear that you do not abide by the laws of Western Australia, set by the Parliament, then there is no way that you can be a fit and proper person,” Blanch told reporters.
Yet the people targeted by AU authorities actually followed the rules and had their proper firearms permits and licensing!?
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