{"id":57635,"date":"2019-03-23T11:36:52","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T11:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=57635"},"modified":"2019-03-23T11:36:53","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T11:36:53","slug":"new-zealand-police-visited-mosque-shooters-home-before-granting-gun-licence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/new-zealand-police-visited-mosque-shooters-home-before-granting-gun-licence\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand police visited mosque shooter\u2019s home before granting gun licence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New Zealand police revealed Friday that they met with the accused Christchurch mosque shooter at his home in October 2017 before granting him the licence that let him purchase the weapons used in the rampage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOne of the steps to gaining a firearms licence is a home visit to meet the applicant in person and inspect the security of their property,\u201d he said in a statement.The police team carried out the visit in October, interviewing Tarrant and carrying out a \u201csecurity inspection\u201d of his home, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Australian Brenton Tarrant, a self-avowed white supremacist, applied for the gun licence in September 2017 and a police \u201cfirearms vetting team\u201d visited his home in the southern city of Dunedin the following month, a police spokesman said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFollowing this, all the available information was reviewed and the licence was approved in November 2017.\u201dTarrant also provided the names of two New Zealand residents as references, who were also interviewed by police and \u201cmet the requirements of the process,\u201d he said, without identifying the two persons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Authorities say Tarrant legally purchased a number of weapons in December 2017, including the two semi-automatic rifles, two shotguns and a lever-action firearm he used in the March 15 attacks on two Christchurch mosques that left 50 people dead and 50 injured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand police revealed Friday that they met with the accused Christchurch mosque shooter at his home in October 2017 before granting him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57636,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57637,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57635\/revisions\/57637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}