<\/b>Police are investigating the discovery of a homemade firearm and ammunition at a home near Wagga Wagga today.<\/p>\n
Shortly after 2pm today (Tuesday 25 August 2015), police from Wagga Wagga Local Area Command executed a search warrant at a home in Ashmont.<\/p>\n
Attending police spoke initially with a 20-year-old man until the owner of the premises, a 45-year-old man, returned a short time later.<\/p>\n
Police located a shortened double barrelled shotgun, a second barrel for another firearm, a trigger mechanism and ammunition.<\/p>\n
Also found was a homemade firearm, made from a building tool, while other devices were also located and seized.<\/p>\n
Officers who entered the premises also removed a homemade cattle-prod type device which was seized.<\/p>\n
The home owner was interviewed in relation to the items that were located and those that appeared to be homemade.<\/p>\n
He was released pending further inquiries and forensic examination of the firearms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Police are investigating the discovery of a homemade firearm and ammunition at a home near Wagga Wagga today. Shortly after 2pm today (Tuesday 25 August 2015), police from Wagga Wagga Local Area Command executed a search warrant at a home in Ashmont. Attending police spoke initially with a 20-year-old man until the owner of the … Continue reading “Homemade gun located during search warrant – Wagga Wagga”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hume"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}