“Despite our staff clearly identifying themselves Mr Dotcom retreated into the house and activated a number of electronic locking mechanisms. While Police neutralised these locks he then further barricaded himself into a safe room within the house which officers had to cut their way into. Once they gained entry into this room they found Mr Dotcom near a firearm which had the appearance of a shortened shotgun.”
I assume that gun cabinet was kept locked and you couldn’t get in. Schmitz’s safe was open. Schmitz was hiding in his panic room, refused to come out for the police, and had a shotgun with him in that room. If not technically armed, he certainly created a high risk situation.
“The gun in question [...] was a type never seen before by arms experts in New Zealand.”
“She said a police arms officer said the weapon must have been modified. "It couldn't be cut off any further back because of the position of the magazine," she said. To get a license for that type of gun in New Zealand it would have had to be granted a permit.”
That's ridiculous tabloid journalism. They attempt to claim that expired passports represent multiple identities and a flight risk, drag up unrelated dirt from Kim's past, slanderously characterise MegaUpload as "a repository for films, TV shows and books, where users could watch content without charge". At least they are honest with some further amusing tidbit about the gun: Davison said the gun found in an open safe in the "panic room" with Dotcom had never been used and only had a rubber bullet.
I don’t see any signs of that. It’s a report of what was said at one of the court hearings. If you have a more verbatim version of what transpired, I’d love to read it.
> MegaUpload [is a] "a repository for films, TV shows and books, where users could watch content without charge"
That sounds like a charitable description of what Megaupload was. They could’ve easily characterized it as a child porn and terrorism information ring.
“Despite our staff clearly identifying themselves Mr Dotcom retreated into the house and activated a number of electronic locking mechanisms. While Police neutralised these locks he then further barricaded himself into a safe room within the house which officers had to cut their way into. Once they gained entry into this room they found Mr Dotcom near a firearm which had the appearance of a shortened shotgun.”
http://www.police.govt.nz/news/release/30638.html