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Christchurch attack inquest to examine gun acquisition and licensing failures

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Al Noor Mosque, Christchurch. Image – Google Maps, StreetView.

The second-phase inquest into the Christchurch mosque attack of March 2019 will focus on how the attacker, Brenton Tarrant, obtained his firearms licence and the adequacy of New Zealand’s gun laws prior to the massacre.

Deputy Chief Coroner Brigitte Windley will investigate whether there were errors, failures, or deficiencies in the police’s assessment process that allowed Tarrant to legally acquire firearms.

The inquiry will explore how the gunman secured a licence despite his extremist views and whether the police should have conducted a more thorough vetting process. Particular attention will be given to the role of his referees, his acquisition of high-capacity magazines, and the loophole that enabled him to convert standard rifles into military-style semi-automatic weapons.

The inquest aims to provide a clearer understanding of how the licensing laws and police procedures at the time contributed to the tragic events at Al Noor Mosque and the Linwood Islamic Centre.

Key issues include whether questions about Tarrant’s “political” beliefs should have been raised during the vetting process, and if more stringent checks could have prevented the attack. The inquiry, which is expected to last three weeks and include testimonies from around 15 witnesses, will also conduct a “counterfactual analysis” to determine if the attack could have been avoided with different regulatory decisions.

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    • CENTRIST
      Christchurch attacks expose police inaction over gun loophole concerns
      https://centrist.co.nz/christchurch-attacks-expose-police-inaction-over-gun-loophole-concerns/
      The cops need to keep stoking this to keep it alive in the public domain because there has been too much discussion and people know now it is a croc of you know what
      There has been so much lies that they have lost control of the narrative
      Caught up and ensnared in their own devices
      A complete fabrication and fraud like the elusive covid which can be compared to the Dodo bird or the Moa
      Its all out in the open now
      Another Ardern hangover that is not going away anytime soon

  1. Home2019April Mona Alexis Pressley, Does Max Igan have it right? Was the Christchurch shooting real?
    https://jameshfetzer.org/2019/04/mona-alexis-pressley-does-max-igan-have-it-right-was-the-christchurch-shooting-real/
    https://rumble.com/v1y6i2o-igp10-171-nz-muuske-massacre-redux.html
    https://www.bitchute.com/video/wVh8RiuSISBw/
    See part 1 153 News
    More disinformation and a distraction laying credence to and reinforcing the lie that is on life support
    Where is Tarrant in jail anyway?
    All as bogus as a $3 bill

    • Dangerous ideologues trying to emotionally manipulate the public into tolerating yet more gun control and speech control.

  2. Maybe they should also look at his accidental self inflicted gunshot wound the he went to the hospital to seek treatment for was not reported as per policy?

  3. The MSM will NEVER report the below, as the media outlets are Zionist-owned and controlled.
    https://phibetaiota.net/2019/03/breaking-new-zealand-false-flag-by-zionist-israel-with-complete-new-zealand-police-and-freemason-complicity/
    Please READ THE ARTICLE and then write to Firearms Minister Nicole McKee demanding that the restrictions on MSSA ‘s be lifted, and that the Firearms Registration be SCRAPPED due to crims or an invading force hacking the database and locating where the ‘Registered Firearms’ are located in private homes.
    https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/rushed-gun-laws-havent-made-new-zealanders-safer
    The first thing that an invading force will do is to grab the Firearms Registry List in order to round-up and remove firearms from those being invaded. History has repeated this scenario many times..
    THEN- go to the Parliament’s Petitions Webpage, and see IF there are any Petitions that are demanding that New Zealand become a Neutral Nation, and that we as New Zealanders have the U.N. RIGHT TO SELF DEFENCE under CHAPTER 7, ARTICLE 51, which can only be achieved locally by ‘Fit & Proper Persons’ being able to hold, maintain and discharge firearms for not only personal self-defence, but defence of New Zealand if needed in a National Emergency.

  4. As I understand, his firearm’s licence was issued in Australia. NZ has no control over that.

    It was a shameful day in NZ. However, the shortcomings were from Australia and not the NZ firearms licensing system. Australian authorities who issued a licence (not the decent people of Australia) should be fronting up with compensating the victims and NZ.

    With understanding for the families that are affected, aside from that one-off, NZ doesn’t have a problem. There has been a strong push against firearm owners. That is not where the violence stems from.

    It seems the police have grown a pair and are starting to tackle gangs. Perhaps NZ could invest some time to review how gangs are formed from broken families. I see many families destroyed from government institutions, unsustainable taxation, lengthy expensive family court, an ineffective police complaints authority.

    In a short sentence, “The temperaments of individuals who are messed around with, unable to reach an honest or workable deal, can’t get adequate timely justice will cause impulsive unconstrained harm.”

    The non-inclusive list of government departments and policies that causes harm are as follows.

    1. Ignoring the increase of deaths caused by the mRNA jabs, refusing to look into that and glossing over with constricting Royal enquiries to downplay government violence. The person whose child or mother had died from the jabs who can’t get proper justice is at risk of taking matters into their own hands.

    2. Family court delay or ignoring relevant evidence. Many a time the media reports extreme violence when evidence is ignored. The media reports tipping petrol over victims, themselves and lighting up. Yes, it is mostly the men and fathers who are left with seeking what they view as retribution or nowhere else to turn.

    3. Ineffective police complaints authority. Police commit perjury, 7 years imprisonment is replaced with recommendations not to do it again. Police act unlawfully, getting fired is replaced by courses and yet more recommendations for which the commissioner re-submits he/she has taken on board.

    4. Unbalanced tenancy court. A tenant wrecks a property, compensation is 5% of the cost.

    5. Family court (again). Over use of without notice application orders hearsay with automatic violence courses for the person wasn’t violent. Does the assumed victim not have the partner’s phone number she can give to the court? A lot is over “I’m banging your mate, moving him in to be dad and for this to work for me is I want your home, all property and possessions for free for year’s, then half of it.” Stop all contact with beloved children for years. That would set the most sane man off.

    6. Family court yet again. A person owns a property out right. He/she saved a deposit, worked 2 jobs, went without, took the risk of a mortgage, refurbished their property. Someone moves in, and they own 50% in 2 to 3 years of relationship. That is nothing more than a redistribution of wealth and not justice. Again, it is mostly men who are seen as violent. It really is injustice and failure.

    Am I picking on women? No. I’m picking on policy that allows injustice that leads to violence.

    7. As I understand, the defunding of family court has led to massive backlogs including urgent hearings that can now take between 6 months and a year. That delay is causing violence.

    8. Turning my eye to the UK and Europe. Allowing violent people from nations into Europe to stab children and wreck the place while they live in hotels at the taxpayer’s expense, then jailing the people who just spoke out, is fostering violence and civil war.

    9. The main cause of suicide is injustice.

    Fix these laws, policies, and violence will fade into history. Normality and peace will flourish.

    • I like your comment because it highlights one of New Zealand’s most pressing social issues: The abysmal rotten state of the Family Court system.
      The injustice done to children and fathers under the pretense of care by Oranga Tamariki (child welfare service) and woke and misguided police is widely hidden and not reported because the Family Court operates behind closed doors.
      Surely there are incidences where the system works, but excessive grandstanding of these two hand-in-hand working organizations wrecks vast parts of society.
      Family Court judges are concerned with their own appearance and are in collusion with widespread miscarriage of justice.
      For fathers to fight unjust protection orders is a minefield that lands many not only in the Family Court. Increasingly the family ‘justice’ system is weaponized and false allegations lead easily to criminal charges. In today’s woke world of fake “Me Too” accusations, nobody can be seen as taking a stand against wilful allegations.
      Under this horrible system fathers who fight for their kids are systematically screwed because the various departments cover each other’s deeds.
      And all because mothers lie to get child support.
      When this rort will find reporting and true recognition as what it is, namely the destruction of the core family, it will go down in NZ history as one of the most insidious stigmas of Godzone.
      I wonder why there are no decent social workers, police or judges who had enough of that injustice and speak up against their colleagues, not even anonymously.
      Have all forgotten their oath?
      https://nzfamilycourtwatchdog.com/

    • Only NZ can issue a NZ Firearms licence. AU firearms license is not valid in NZ.

      I have to wonder what your agenda is for posting such crap?

  5. As jabcinda made it illegal to see or read any real evidence we know of there should be a full independant transparent enquiry in to this whole situation.

  6. The whole incident looks to me like a set up. The law commission report was purely used to push the woke agenda, diversity hires, remove freedom of speech, and take away firearms from law abiding citizens. Disgusting the whole thing. And to be paying $500k every year to the Muslims is pathetic. The guys was an aussie, who did he get a gun. The end of the review.

  7. People seem to want to dwell on this construct narrative cover story of Tarrants supposed background
    And military training
    And in so doing choose to negate and circumvent the facts pointing to the conclusion that this was categorically and unequivocally a fabricated conjured up False Flag orchestrated event
    We all saw how much military training Tarrant had had as it transpires when he is fumbling around trying to change the magazine on his alleged weapon
    Which it becomes obvious is not real which is divulged when he shoots one victim in the back at close range and their T shit ‘puffs’ up
    That is because it is a toy replica air rifle and like why no damage is done to the windscreen of Tarrants car
    Like in Charlie Hebdo
    Until when the car is towed which is the second car when three distinct bullet holes are clearly evident
    Christchurch is a bit like covid
    And a virus that does not and has never been proven to exist
    But some people just don’t get it and never will

  8. Interesting in the fact that as soon as this event not streamed live on FACEBOOK ‘happend’ a myriad of information on Tarrant and his alleged background was immediately made available
    Like the gun control Laws that had already been written up
    And Tarrants manifesto

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