{"id":503052,"date":"2026-06-30T17:28:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T17:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/503052\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T17:28:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T17:28:13","slug":"police-probe-whether-brian-tamaki-is-fit-and-proper-to-hold-gun-licence-after-seizing-firearms-cache","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/503052\/","title":{"rendered":"Police probe whether Brian Tamaki is \u2018fit and proper\u2019 to hold gun licence after seizing firearms cache"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gray declined to comment on Tamaki\u2019s case.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, generally speaking this sort of action is not uncommon. <\/p>\n

\u201cA person\u2019s licence can be temporarily suspended while the firearms regulator investigates further, to ensure the licence holder remains \u2018fit and proper\u2019 to possess a firearm.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"DestinyDestiny Church leader Brian Tamaki at his home in South Auckland. Photo \/ Jason Dorday<\/p>\n

It comes after Tamaki made a reference on a recent podcast to using a shotgun<\/a> to protect his family.<\/p>\n

The controversial Christian leader also said \u201clet\u2019s purge New Zealand of Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims\u201d in reference to claims that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was targeting Indian Christians with threats and violence. <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd, while we\u2019re at it, if they\u2019re burning churches down, why don\u2019t we burn mosques and their temples down? Tit for tat,\u201d Tamaki said on social media this month.<\/p>\n

Tamaki\u2019s comments sparked opposition from religious, ethnic and multicultural leaders, while Act MP Dr Parmjeet Parmar said she asked police to investigate whether Tamaki broke the law. <\/p>\n

Wellington Anglican priest Scottie Reeve told the Herald Tamaki wants to \u201cmandate a vision of a theocracy\u201d. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere are two very different visions of Christianity,\u201d Reeve said in a statement. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s what Jesus put forward, where he talked about us \u2018salting or seasoning the world\u2019 as Christians and being a positive influence. <\/p>\n

\u201cThen there is Brian\u2019s perspective, which we\u2019re seeing come from [Donald] Trump and lots of his acolytes and folks around the world, which is instead of Christians being a positive influence on the world, we\u2019re meant to \u2018dominate and control\u2019 the world. <\/p>\n

\u201cJesus steps into people\u2019s lives with hope; Brian instead wants to mandate a vision of a theocracy.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are in a moment globally of fear and uncertainty \u2013 economically, politically, socially. And in those moments, as you saw in the 1930s and in other moments in history, we tend to look for someone to blame, and often migrants and foreigners, those who are different from us, are an easy place to scapegoat.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reeve said that Jesus himself was \u201ca migrant and a refugee in his life\u201d. <\/p>\n

\u201cIf Brian doesn\u2019t think there\u2019s room for migrants, then he\u2019s actually saying there\u2019s no room for Jesus.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked for comment on Tamaki having his guns seized by police, Deputy Prime Minister David Seymour told reporters that he\u2019s got \u201czero time for Brian Tamaki\u201d. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhatever the police have done is subject to the law,\u201d Seymour told media in Wellington. \u201cI hope that the police have acted within the law. In fact, I\u2019m sure they will have. If he\u2019s got any complaints, he should take them through the proper legal channels and possibly stop being a d***head.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gray declined to comment on Tamaki\u2019s case. \u201cHowever, generally speaking this sort of action is not uncommon. \u201cA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,95,5159,60292,12897,5782,12896,16959,28419,3606,28162,40683,17709,185,13489,19339,111,43,139,69,1642,675,251065,28758,29658,10715,29954,31421,61,14905],"class_list":["post-503052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-and","tag-brian","tag-cache","tag-church","tag-comments","tag-destiny","tag-firearms","tag-fit","tag-gun","tag-hold","tag-incendiary","tag-investigating","tag-is","tag-leader","tag-licence","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-online","tag-police","tag-possess","tag-probe","tag-proper","tag-remains","tag-seizing","tag-tamaki","tag-to","tag-whether"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}