White supremacist Barry Butler was no stranger to guns when a man armed with one, and a silencer, crept up to his Beechworth bush block as sun fell on the outskirts of the regional gold rush town.

In the headlights of his black Kia Stinger sedan, antiques salesman Paul Flegel, 60, stood armed with a semi-automatic pistol and a belly full of Jack Daniel’s whiskey.

Police tape off Butler’s home. Credit: Nine News

At the front door, a friend of Flegel’s reassured Butler, 63, they were just there to talk, as Butler squinted past him towards the Kia Stinger.

Seconds later, a hail of bullets rained down on the sprawling Buckland Gap Road home.

Paul Flegel.

Butler, struck in the chest, ran from his home and sheltered under a ute parked in his shed, while grabbing his own gun and returni

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