Wieambilla police shooting: How Train brothers were able to amass ‘considerable weaponry’

Australia’s gun licensing system needs to be reviewed, according to the head of the Queensland Police Union (QPU), after two police officers and a bystander were shot dead on Monday.

The officers, Constable Rachel McCrow and Constable Matthew Arnold, and a member of the public, Alan Dare, were killed by three ‘ruthless and ruthless’ gunmen.

Brothers Nathaniel and Gareth Train, as well as Stacey Train, seized ‘considerable weapons’ to carry out the attack on four young police officers, two of whom escaped with their lives.

It is said that the three Trains were involved in paranoid and anti-authority conspiracy theories.

Nathaniel Train (pictured), along with his brother Gareth Train, as well as Stacey Train, seized the ‘considerable weaponry’

Gareth Train (pictured) was steeped in paranoid, anti-authority conspiracy theories.

QPU chief Ian Leavers said there must be an examination of how guns and other weapons are authorized.

“Guns are not a problem in the right hands, but you have to look at the gun licensing system, the national database,” he said.

‘Can that be better, should it be better where people move from one state to another?’

At the center of the ambush is former school principal Nathaniel Train, who had moved from New South Wales to Queensland before the attack.

Leavers singled out the movement of people between states as a potential weak link in the system, saying there should be “uniformity across the board.”

“And if things can be done better, all states need to work together so that we have the best system available, so that we have the best intelligence to keep the Queensland community and the rest of the community safe,” he said.

Constable Rachel McCrow (pictured) was killed in an ambush in rural Queensland on Monday.

Constable Matthew Arnold (pictured) was also killed in the ambush at a property in Wieambilla.

A review of the system that keeps track of firearms and weapons in Australia will be discussed as officers investigate the incident.

“When firearms fall into the wrong hands, that’s when we should be concerned and that will form part of the investigation,” Mr Leavers said.

‘And if things can be done better, all states need to work together so that we have the best system available, so that we have the best intelligence to keep the Queensland community and the rest of the community safe.

Queensland Police Union Chief Ian Leavers (pictured)

The four officers, including Officer Randall Kirk and Officer Keely Brough, who barely escaped with their lives, had been making a routine stop while investigating a missing person report on the Nathaniel Train.

The group had made their way to the Gareth Train property in Wieambilla and honked to alert residents to their presence before jumping over a fence to enter the property.

Seconds later, they were met with a hail of gunfire, killing Officer McCrow and Officer Arnold.

Mr Leavers expressed concern for police officers who needed to be safe while “doing their job”.

“Because these tragedies should not happen,” he said.

‘We are not used to seeing this in Australia. This is what we hear in countries like the United States and we must be very careful.

“But we have to look at that and that will be done in depth.”

In the photo, the house where the brothers Train and Stacey Train lived in rural Wieambilla in Queensland.