{"id":644141,"date":"2026-05-02T03:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T03:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/644141\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T03:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T03:59:08","slug":"queensland-sovereign-citizen-known-as-his-serene-highness-loses-appeal-for-return-of-gun-licence-queensland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/644141\/","title":{"rendered":"Queensland sovereign citizen known as \u2018His Serene Highness\u2019 loses appeal for return of gun licence | Queensland"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Queensland<\/a> tribunal has upheld a police decision to revoke the firearms licence of a sovereign citizen who drove a truck bearing homemade licence plates and who referred to himself as \u201cHis Serene Highness\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Queensland Police Service cancelled Kent Jenkinson\u2019s firearms licence in 2023, arguing that his sovereign citizen ideologies meant he was not a fit and proper person to own and possess guns.<\/p>\n

Police submitted to the tribunal that \u201cthe public does not want people with sovereign citizenship ideologies to have possession of a weapon\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey cannot be trusted with weapons because they do not recognise authority or the laws of the state.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jenkinson appealed against the decision in the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal claiming he was non-violent and \u201centitled to his political beliefs\u201d.<\/p>\n

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The tribunal heard evidence related to an interaction between Jenkinson and police in 2023, during which he was questioned about the homemade licence plate on his truck CPO \u2013 01HSH. He said the HSH referred to \u201cHis Serene Highness\u201d.<\/p>\n

When asked by police about the licence plate, Jenkinson said it was registered with \u201cthe human rights and equal opportunity, the pope, the queen, the governor general, the Office of Fair Trading, the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Department of Territories in Canberra\u201d.<\/p>\n

When asked under cross-examination to explain that statement, Jenkinson made comments to the effect that he had sent documents to all those organisations and that \u201cpaperwork was sent away to have that recognised \u2026 [I] have not heard anything back as yet.\u201d<\/p>\n

He acknowledged the views he expressed during the interaction \u2013 including that police were \u201cemployed as private security guards for the Queensland Treasury corporation and that they have no legal authority\u201d \u2013 were \u201ceccentric\u201d.<\/p>\n

The tribunal heard evidence Jenkinson had previously been associated with two men \u2013 Des Rowe and Des Hopkins \u2013 who are the founders of a group called the Anti-Corruption Academy.<\/p>\n

Jenkinson said he had since resiled from some of his views and dissociated from the men because \u201cI do not believe in the way they have gone\u201d.<\/p>\n

He argued that he had not previously been accused of any violent behaviour, that he \u201cacknowledges the error of his ways\u201d and has \u201cnow fixed an approved registration plate to his truck\u201d.<\/p>\n

But under cross-examination Jenkinson maintained that \u201csovereignty is the way I choose to live \u2026 and I believe we are all sovereign citizens\u201d.<\/p>\n

The tribunal acknowledged there was no evidence to suggest Jenkinson was a risk to public safety, but found there was a \u201cstrong\u201d public interest case to deny him a gun licence.<\/p>\n

The decision took into account that Jenkinson had been given an adult caution in 2023 for the unlawful disposal of a firearm.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe public would, I consider, be concerned that a man holding sovereign citizenship ideologies and who has committed an offence against the Weapons Act might be entrusted with a weapon,\u201d the tribunal found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Queensland tribunal has upheld a police decision to revoke the firearms licence of a sovereign citizen who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-644141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}