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>WELLINGTON, New Zealand – WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Police in Western Australia have seized guns and revoked or suspended firearms permits from dozens of owners linked to what investigators describe as sovereign citizen ideologies, or views that reject government authority.

Officials linked the crackdown on firearms users believed to hold such views to the fatal shooting in August of two police officers in Victoria state, in the country's east. The suspect in those killings, 56-year-old Dezi Freeman, remains at large, weeks after he is said to have killed two officers visiting his rural property to serve a search warrant.

>In the years before the shooting, Freeman appeared to have embraced so-called sovereign citizen views during court appearances. Members of such movements use debunked legal theories to reject government authority.

>Freeman is suspected of killing Detective Senior Constable Neal Thompson and Senior Constable Vadim de Waart-Hottart and wounding a third officer. Following the shooting, investigators in Western Australia used bolstered gun laws enacted in 2024 to identify weapons owners in their state who they said held similar views to Freeman’s.

>“The mission of this operation was simple and that was to validate and verify our intelligence on who may hold sovereign citizen ideologies here in Western Australia,” the state’s Police Commissioner Col Blanch told reporters on Sunday. Social media posts and information from other gun owners was used to identify those targeted.

>Officers visited 70 properties over five days in late September and early October, seizing 135 firearms and suspending or revoking 44 gun licenses, Blanch said. Investigators relied on a legal provision that allows only someone who meets the standard of a “fit and proper person” to hold a gun permit.

>“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 said.

>In explaining the raids, Blanch said that in the past three years, six police officers in four states have been shot dead by members of the public, which he said was “unprecedented” in Australia.

>In 2022, two officers were shot and killed by Christian extremists at a rural property in Queensland state. The three shooters in that case — conspiracy theorists who reportedly hated the police — were shot and killed by officers after a six-hour siege in the region of Wieambilla.

>A South Australia police officer was shot dead in 2023. Another was killed in Tasmania in June.

>Shooting deaths in Australia are otherwise rare. A 1996 massacre in the Tasmanian town of Port Arthur, where a lone gunman killed 35 people, prompted the government to drastically tighten gun laws and made it much more difficult for Australians to acquire firearms

>When Western Australia’s tighter gun laws were enacted last June, the state’s government boasted that they were the strongest in the country. The changes included limiting the number of guns someone can own to 10 for most people.

>Meanwhile, in rural Victoria, Australia’s largest ever tactical police operation continues the search for Freeman. Hundreds of officers have traversed rugged landscapes, squeezed into caves and checked mine shafts, with no confirmed sightings of the fugitive so far.

>The Aug. 26 killings happened when 10 armed police officers tried to execute a search warrant at Freeman’s property in Porepunkah, a town of just over 1,000 people located 320 kilometers (200 miles) northeast of the city of Melbourne.

>The suspect, Freeman, fled alone, on foot and heavily armed, into dense surrounding forest. He is experienced in wilderness survival skills, officials said.

>Victoria’s Police Commissioner Mike Bush did not offer a reason for the search of Freeman’s property at the time, but he told reporters that attending officers included members of a unit that investigates sexual offenses and child abuse.

>Australian news outlets widely reported that Freeman espoused sovereign citizen beliefs, citing a 2021 video taken in Wangaratta Magistrate’s Court and published online in which he can be seen attempting unsuccessfully to arrest a magistrate and police officers during a hearing.

>In a 2024 finding from Victoria’s Supreme Court, where Freeman tried to challenge a lengthy suspension of his drivers’ license, a judge wrote the man had “a history of unpleasant encounters with police officers” whom he referred to in his submissions to the court as “Nazis” and “terrorist thugs.”

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/police-australia-seize-guns-dozens-owners-hold-views-126242054

Critical support for sovereign citizens in their fight against australian imperialism!

>>2519780
this might come as a shock to turd burgling american burger turds but in australia when old mate greg says that the law's not real and only god can judge him we take away his firearms licence. crazy I know. over here we don't have a second amendment to protect the rights of fringe cranks planning violent retribution.

WAs pretty cooked. in 2015 they published a report that stated that their firearms dept was two alcoholics and a cisco phone. they were receiving documents, not digitising or reviewing them and sending out approvals and registrations to fraudulent applications constantly. shit was so bad they didn't know exactly how many people had registered for a permit using pre-filled forms being shared on facebook but they knew it was probably thousands.

this all came to a head this year when a sovcit bird law expert in victoria conveyed his vessel to his estranged old lady's house and started tard raging. when the coppers showed up he shot two of them and went skippy kangaroo bush and (probably) fell down a mineshaft.

I miss being able to laugh at these retards, but american propaganda is making them creepy and threatening (and nazi adjacent) when they're supposed to just be weird loser fuckwits you openly mock on facebook.

Hate to the bearer of bad news, but this is just another goose chase. If he does get found, it sadly won’t amount to much.

He’s no Ned Kelly.

>>2520460
good to hear you support your capitalist government.

>>2520472
I support them over the far right wingnuts huffing trump's farts. I think you'd be hard pressed to find someone who doesn't.

but to be clear my post is excoriating the government for ineptitude: thousands of fraudulent permits and registrations might not sound like many but there's not that many cunts living here. it represents a massive arsenal that vanished in a cloud of dodgy paperwork. worse than that this is the first I've heard of them disarming cookers in the the ten years since that report. all of their police intelligence has instead been focused on unions and climate protestors.

if there wasn't a shooting this year they'd probably still be ignoring these chuds.

>>2520460
are these guys meth crazy or natty crazy?

>>2520516
natty crazy. the methy crazy people don't organize conferences they fight each other outside country pubs.

the people we're talking about are the ones that spin out over traffic fines until they lose their licence then keep driving, or abuse their partners over messy divorces until they end up in lockup. the ones that quote US laws to aussie magistrates. the cunts that get radicalized by boomer memes on facebook till they wake up one day and they're far right loonies with no IRL friends.

>>2520460
bootlicking tard

>>2520566
you want me to be upset about a bunch of reactionaries getting raided?

>New Zealand article about Australian news
Why?

>>2520556
> the ones that quote US laws to aussie magistrates.
does that really happen in australia

based cops. sovereign schizoids should not have guns

>>2520767
I have to work with a legit sovcit person, in the UK, it's surreal. At least he brings up the magna carta not the constitution

>>2520460
I always laugh when Brits or Aussies look down on us. You're right about us, but you forget you suck just as hard. Nice try though.

>>2520832
That's ableist. Let the reactionaries have their guns.

just wanna check you're aware that "schizoid" is an actual concept which is different to schizophrenia

>>2520899
Death to them both, but… no.
The USA is unique in so many horrible ways. afaik the other 5EYES, even the genocidal colony states, don't have weekly+school shootings, opioids on television commercials, film actor presidents, citizens executing healthcare executives and being bipartisanly cheered on, and many many more crimes against consciousness.

The other fucking disaster 5EYES are paradise compared to the USA.

>>2520927
>Let the reactionaries have their guns
no? reactionaries must be disarmed. I don't care who does it

>>2520615
Yes. Tribalism is retarded. You will be raided soon too. Always be worried the low hanging fruit is being taken since you are next. In this case, the rightoids are correct and we should enter into a popular front with them against the evil capitalist government.

>>2520955
"we"

>>2520955
you're a moron

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>>2520927
>citizens executing healthcare executives and being bipartisanly cheered on
I'm not even ashamed of that one.


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