[…] Put simply, had police followed their own rules, they would never have given the shooter a license because his referees did not meet the test.
Rather than someone close to him, his referees were an online gaming friend and their father. That rings alarm bells surely?
Sadly, it didn’t – he got his license.
Police appear to have just rubber-stamped the application because they had “deprioristised” gun license checks to focus on other areas.
How many other applications went through like this? How long has that been the case? How many other potential threats are out there? How many other people have licences they should not have?
Duncan Garner Newshub
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