{"id":562659,"date":"2026-08-08T09:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T09:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/562659\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T09:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T09:20:09","slug":"brian-tamaki-says-police-have-revoked-his-firearms-licence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/562659\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Tamaki says police have revoked his firearms licence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI was speaking passionately. I was protesting. I was challenging what I believed needed to be challenged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI am now prohibited not only from possessing my own firearms, but from possessing or using a firearm even under the supervision of a licensed firearms holder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThis follows the temporary suspension issued to me on 30 June and the subsequent submissions made by my lawyer opposing that suspension.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">Acting Executive Director of Firearms Safety Authority Bruce Bird said police were unable to comment on an individual case or licensing decisions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cHowever, speaking generally, decisions about suspending or revoking a firearms licence are based on a legal standard of whether a person is \u2018fit and proper\u2019 to possess a firearm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">Bird said fit and proper decisions were guided by circumstances outlined in section 24A of the Arms Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI was speaking passionately. I was protesting. I was challenging what I believed needed to be challenged. \u201cI&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5159,1651,16959,305,293,19339,111,43,139,69,675,154770,53545,312,31421],"class_list":["post-562659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-brian","tag-digital","tag-firearms","tag-have","tag-his","tag-licence","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-police","tag-reporters","tag-revoked","tag-says","tag-tamaki"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562659","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=562659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}