FILE PHOTO: A truck unloads prohibited firearms at a scrap-metal yard that were handed in under the Australian government's buy-back scheme in Sydney, Australia, July 29, 2017. -Reuters
WELLINGTON: 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.
