Overview

• In a five‑day sweep across metropolitan and regional WA, officers executed 70 search warrants and inspected 26 firearm storage units.
• Authorities cancelled or suspended 44 firearm licences, with seven people charged over 18 offences including improper storage, unlawful possession of ammunition, prohibited accessories and drug offences.
• Police reported the haul included 125 long‑arm firearms, 10 handguns and two suppressor barrels.
• WA Police say they have identified about 1,000 people in the state professing sovereign‑citizen beliefs, roughly 70 of whom hold gun licences.
• Officials said the action applied the ‘fit and proper person’ test under WA’s tightened firearms regime, as the manhunt for alleged Victoria shooter Dezi Freeman continues.