Former Australian neo-Nazi group member who owned 16 guns appeals loss of firearms licence

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/27/former-neo-nazi-group-member-joshua-ryan-hoath-firearms-licence-ntwnfb

11 Comments

  1. >Police tendered photographs to the tribunal that included an A4-sized framed photograph of Hoath being “embraced by a person identified as the Queensland leader of the NSN, Gabriel Seymour”. The framed picture had been on Hoath’s bedside table.

    Okkaaaayyy..

  2. PointOfFingers on

    This was the same excuse Nazi leaders used at Nuremberg:

    >“for the social aspect behind the group and the fitness activities performed as well as the adventures of travelling to new places for the set activities”.

  3. “appealing a police decision….. on the grounds it infringes his right to freedom of political communication”

    So he needs his guns for political communication?

  4. 11015h4d0wR34lm on

    >He acknowledged the group was a neo-Nazi organisation, but told the tribunal he had joined up “for the social aspect behind the group and the fitness activities performed as well as the adventures of travelling to new places for the set activities”.

    Then this…

    >In March 2024, police searched Hoath’s property and found 16 firearms and ammunition.

    >They also found “a number of items of interest” including “**not one, but two copies of Mein Kampf**” in a bookshelf with other fascist publications, the tribunal heard.

    Guys don’t you know how great neo Nazi social clubs and fitness activities are? You should join too! 🤣

    Just shows how low of an IQ people like this have to think that is a reasonable defence.

  5. Fuck him.

    We can’t stop him from being a Nazi, but we can stop him from being an armed Nazi.

  6. Fat-Buddy-8120 on

    Do you really need to join a neonazi group for social and fitness activities? I’ve heard for many years that is fun to stay at the YMCA

  7. BlockCapital6761 on

    Do we have an answer as to why this wasnt done to our father son Bondi duo? Have they admitted incompetence yet?

  8. its-just-the-vibe on

    The heading is doing my head in. Is he a former nazi group member or a member of now disbanded nazi group? They can mean completely different things