A gunsmith living and working in Canterbury says he told police less than six months ago they needed to look at the rise of white supremacists with guns in Christchurch.
But police said an officer who spoke at public forums last year could not recall a person specifically raising these concerns.
Hamish Bruce helps put together gun show events, battle re-enactments and provides armoury for films.
Mr Bruce said at a meeting in October last year to discuss the Arms Act, he told superintendent Mike McIlraith he was seeing more people with extremist views attending gun events and legally gaining firearms licences.
He said they had started to attend re-enactments he was involved with.
"I did warn him specifically that there were real neo-Nazis out there and they had gained access to all manner of firearms... I'm talking about machine guns, pistols, submachine guns, the whole gamut of what's available to restricted collectors."
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