WA’s cop top has no regrets over ‘sovereign citizen’ gun ban
WA Police Commissioner Col Blanch said WA had no intention of meeting with the “dominant citizens olan, who describes the authority as people who do not know authority or who do not believe in the law.
Speaking at Radio 6PR this morning, Blanch said that in August, two police officers in Victoria, the idea of lifting firearms from 70 people who described themselves as sovereign citizens.
Wa Police Commissioner Col Blanch.Credit: Hamish Hastie
He asked if the WA had taken its powers under the new more arms laws:
“There is no other cohort I think [removing guns from]”He said.
“People not to like the police, not to love the laws of the land, not to love the current government, standard … There is nothing wrong with this, this, ‘Do you agree to comply with the laws of the land?’
“They don’t know the WA police as a official police force of the state, I don’t know how to entrust them to follow the laws of having firearms.”
The weapons were seized during a five -day operation last week after being counted ‘suitable and appropriate people’ for Blanch’s owners to have firearms.
