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Sovereign citizen question to gun owners shut down by senior officer
A senior police officer slams the strategy of writing to some Tasmanian gun owners asking them to confirm or deny whether they aligned with sovereign citizen ideology.
ABC Australia News reporting36 sentences analyzed5,457 captured characters
One of Tasmania's most senior cops sought the contrition of a subordinate after they asked suspected sovereign citizens to prove they were "fit and proper" gun owners.
Documents released through the state's right to information (RTI) system show police asked some Tasmanians to confirm or deny in writing if they aligned with sovereign citizen ideology.
Police then visited some of the Tasmanian firearm licence holders and a "small number" of licences were "temporarily suspended".
The head of Tasmania's police association says, "you don't want to be giving them the heads-up [that] you're attending their address". (ABC News: Morgan Timms)
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