{"id":338657,"date":"2025-12-28T14:04:55","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T04:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=338657"},"modified":"2025-12-28T14:04:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T04:04:55","slug":"preacher-linked-to-bondi-shooter-lacks-firearms-licence-authorities-confirm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=338657","title":{"rendered":"Preacher Linked to Bondi Shooter Lacks Firearms Licence, Authorities Confirm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Wissam Haddad, known for anti-Semitic sermons and ties to the Al Madina Dawah Centre attended by accused shooter Naveed Akram, does not have a current firearms licence in New South Wales, as confirmed by Premier Chris Minns following urgent inquiries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The correction followed a deleted 7News story that drew outrage, while police review continues and the centre was shut down for illegal operations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The incident highlights ongoing debates over gun laws and extremism after the December 14 attack that killed 15 at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=329512\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Police Respond to Shooting Reports at Bondi Beach in Sydney\">Bondi Beach Hanukkah event<\/a>, prompting reforms like limits on gun ownership and hate speech measures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The correction followed a deleted 7News story that drew outrage, while police review continues and the centre was shut down for illegal operations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":338658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,8454],"tags":[19003,5026,2139],"class_list":["post-338657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-shooting","tag-bondi-beach-massacre","tag-nsw","tag-sydney"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=338657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338659,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338657\/revisions\/338659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/338658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=338657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=338657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=338657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}