The COLT M16 CAR Rifle -------------------------------

Details That Point to a Coverup At Port Arthur ---------------------------- Email: editor@shootersnews.addr.com


This next irregularity is the finding and recovery of the gun - a COLT M16 CAR .223 rifle - at Seascape after the fire. This is the gun alleged to have been used by Byrant to kill the people in the Broad Arrow Cafe

What is unusual about this is the state with which the gun is recovered in and the fact parts are missing from it that were never recovered from Seascape.

You can see below in the black and white picture the gun as it was allegedly found in the ashes and afterwards when it was cleaned up ( Source: Australian Federal Police Journal Dec 1998 ).

What is unexplained is how could nearly everything else be burned to a crisp ( including other evidence of the gunman's activities ) yet this mainly plastic gun be recovered in such a good condition ? Was it the gun used by the gunman and was it really found there ?

Assuming it was found there why is the pistol grip missing and why was it also not found amongst the ashes ? How could it burn and not the remainder of the gun ? It's strange the grip was removed at all ? Why would Bryant have done so ? Was it because the real gunman knew it had fingerprints or blood stains on it ?

It was reported a cartridge had blown up in the breach and had damaged the rifle. Why then did Bryant not have any wounds to his hands and face when that happened ?.

The story of this gun does not stop there - Tasmanian Police and the DPP tried to get Hobart Gun Dealer Terry Hill to admitt he sold the gun to Bryant after Hill was sued for supplying Bryant with the alleged rifle by offering him immunity from prosecution ( see letter from Avery below ). Hill maintained he did not sell him that gun despite pressure placed on him. Was this an attempt to create a link between the gun and Bryant that police and the DPP knew did not exist and were trying to create one ? Were the Police and DPP trying to fabricate evidence in the case ?

Furthermore Martin Bryant at his police interrogation in July 1996 when showed this gun did not recognize the scope on it yet admitted another gun shown to him found in his Volvo was his. ( Note: - It is possible because the Colt was in reasonable condition he mistook it for one he may have had - the inability to identify the scope may infer this ). Another unexplained irregularity.

It is unknown whether police have matched bullets from this gun to any of the shooting victims.

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