Canberra, Australia – Judge Rules Anti-Semite Allowed To Have A Gun

Canberra, Australia – Leaders of the Jewish community in Canberra say they fear for their safety after a Holocaust-denier was granted a gun licence.

While trying to have his licence reinstated, Canberra-based Darryl Potts told the NSW Administrative Decision Tribunal (ADT) that the number of Jews who died in the Holocaust is a made-up number, that the United States is a Jewish establishment, and that Mossad is spying on him.

“When I speak about the Holocaust, I say the six million is probably a load of hogwash,” Potts told the ADT.
Potts, who works at Parliament House, lost his gun licence after being issued with a domestic violence order following a confrontation with his former partner in 2009.

He said he applied to have his licence reinstated because without it, he struggled to pass the security clearances he needed to be able to work.

Psychiatrist Dr Robert Tym, who examined Potts, told the tribunal that he is someone who has the potential to put public safety at risk if he was in the possession of a firearm.

Despite this testimony and Potts’s blatant anti-Semitism, ADT member Peter Molony said he was not a threat.

“I concluded that Mr Potts is an intelligent, manipulative and calculating man,” Molony said. “The fact that he holds political and religious views and opinions that are offensive is not, in my opinion, sufficient to find that the public interest requires that he no longer hold a firearms licence.”

He found that Potts had never advocated violence or attempted to use force in order to advance his views so he would not be a threat to society.

But ACT Jewish community president Manny Waks clearly disagreed with the judgement.

“We certainly view Mr Potts as a potential threat to our community,” Waks, the former executive director of the B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation Commission, said. “I discussed this matter with our contacts in the Australian Federal Police, who informed me there is very little they could do due to the ADT ruling.”