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South Africa - Mthethwa’s 9-month firearm licence processing target questioned

Recently, in the national assembly, Freedom Front Plus (FF Plus’s) Pieter Groenewald asked police minister Nathi Mthethwa how many applications for the renewal of firearm licences the SAPS had received in terms of the Firearm Control Act 60 of 2000
Sat, 25 Dec 2010 00:49:00 GMT

MEDIA STATEMENT – For immediate release


MINISTER MTHETHWA ANNOUNCES MORE PLANS TO IMPROVE FIREARM APPLICATIONS AND CONTROLS
Enactment will allow for renewal of competency firearms certificates

PRETORIA – 14 December 2010. The Ministry of Police’s efforts of improving responsible firearm control as well as aspects relating to firearm application and licensing are receiving a priority, both operationally and legislatively.

To this end, the Minister of Police, Nathi Mthethwa announced today that the President of the Republic has signed a Proclamation that will enact and address some of the legislative shortcomings. The Proclamation allows for sections of the Firearms Control Amendment Act dealing with renewals of competency certificates to come into effect as of 10th January 2011. The regulations dealing with these amendments will be published in a Government Gazette and will entail newly-simplified renewal forms. The renewal forms will be available at all police stations by 10 January 2011.

Following an investigation by a Ministerial Task Team at the Central Firearms Registry as publicly outlined last month, certain shortcomings have been identified which require urgent steps to be undertaken. “One of the shortcomings is the fact that the present Firearms Control Act, does not provide for a mechanism for the renewal of competency certificates. Although such a procedure was captured in the Firearms Control Amendment Act, it had not been put into operation. Now this matter will be speedily resolved,” stated Minister Mthethwa.
From the 10th January 2011, all persons whose competency certificates are up for renewal must apply at local police station within 90 days of the expiry date. That means between 11 January and 11 April 2011 after which time, if they have not applied for renewal, they will be prosecuted. Given the fact that there are people whose competencies have already expired, this policy announcement is meant to allow such affected people to also make use of this renewal process.

“We do recognize some of the frustrations that certain members of society were faced with; we have tried to accommodate such people. After all it is not government’s stance to criminalize law-abiding citizens. We are therefore allowing citizens whose competencies expired in 2010 and who have not applied for new competency certificates, to make use of the renewal process,” added the Minister.

This enactment means that in addition to the provisions allowing for a renewal of competency the following will apply:
• All persons in possession of muzzle loading firearms will need to apply for competency certificates and will have 12 months in which to comply.
• Once a person has applied for renewal of their competency certificate and has proof of this application, the old competency certificate will remain valid until the person is issued with the new competency certificate or the new competency certificate is declined.
• Presently a competency certificate is valid for a period of five years, despite the fact that some licenses are valid for ten years. From 10 January 2011 the validity period of a competency certificate shall be the same as the license to which the certificate relates.
• New provision will also extend certain business licensing period in an attempt to alleviate the administrative burden on the Central Firearms Registry and the relicensing process.

The Ministry of Police envisages that this process, will amongst others ensure that firearms control in South Africa and licensing thereof, is both transparent, efficient and importantly, that only law-abiding and responsible citizens are entitled to firearm ownership. In addition the Ministry has also committed itself to addressing all other aspects of the Firearm Control Amendment Act early in 2011.
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For enquiries, please contact:
Zweli Mnisi, Spokesperson to the Minister of Police 082 045 4024


Issued by the Ministry of Police.

If at first you don't succeed (at gun grabbing) shoot, shoot again!
Tags: COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDARIGHT TO BEAR ARMS
Police have launched a massive search of the campus for the suspect, who may be a 16-year-old student.
Webmaster's Commentary:
Meaning they don't actually know.

Personally this stinks. It looks to me like the gun-grab is on. The Arizona shooting did not produce the anti-gun hysteria the gun-grabbers wanted. Quite the contrary, sales for the exact model gun used surged! So, it is hardly surprising that the media would welcome another shooting and more bloody shirts to wave around as they ignore the economic crash to rail against the second amendment.

But here is the part they won't mention. The police could not prevent this crime, The FBI could not prevent this crime,. The DHS could not prevent this crime, TSA could not prevent this crime. Had the teachers or other students been carrying guns, that shooter would not have pulled the trigger a second time. This actually happened in a little-reported incident at Appalachian Law School where a student started to go on a shooting rampage only to be stopped by two students with legally owned guns.

The World's Largest Army
I bet you didn’t know this. . .

In WWII, Japan's highest-ranking naval officer was Isoruku Yamamoto. Although he was Japanese, and his loyalties were unquestionably with The Empire, he studied for many years in America, graduating from Harvard University. There is an oft-repeated (and sometimes disputed) quote attributed to him regarding the possibility of any nation taking a war to American soil:

"You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass."

Here is why he was correct:

America's Hunters. The Wo rld's Largest Army.

The state of Wisconsin has gone an entire deer hunting season without someone getting killed. That's great, considering there were over 600,000 hunters that got permits this year.

Allow me to restate that number: 600,000

Over the last two months, the eighth largest army in the world - more men under arms than Iran; more than France and Germany combined - deployed to the woods of a single American state to keep the deer population under control.

But that pales in comparison to the 750,000 who are in the woods of Pennsylvania this week. Michigan's 700,000 hunters have now returned home. Toss in a quarter million hunters in West Virginia, and it is literally the case that the hunters of those four states alone would comprise the largest army in the world.

And that is just FOUR states.

The total population of registered hunters in America today ranges from 23 million to 43.7 million individuals. (Based on annual data provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.) As long as the American Hunter retains his right to Bear Arms, America will forever be safe from foreign invasion of troops.

Hunting – it's not just a way to fill the freezer. It's a matter of National Security.

LUR vra vir strenger vuurwapenwette
2013-03-11 16:55



Johannesburg – Patrick Mabilo, LUR vir veiligheid in die Noord-Kaap, sê strenger vuurwapenwette – veral vir private vuurwapens – kan die voorkoms van skietvoorvalle in die land drasties verminder.

RSG berig die politikus het gepraat voor die hofsaak van 'n 16-jarige seun wat van verlede jaar se opspraakwekkende moorde op Griekwastad aangekla word.

Die verdagte se verhoor het Maandag in die Kimberleyse hooggeregshof afgeskop.

Hy word aangekla van die moord op Deon Steenkamp, sy vrou, Christelle, en hul dogter, Marthella. Hulle is verlede jaar op Goeie Vrydag in hul plaashuis doodgeskiet.

Die verdagte word ook daarvan aangekla dat hy die meisie verkrag het.

Mabilo het gesê die land moet daarna streef om 'n samelewing sonder vuurwapens te word, aangesien te veel vuurwapens in mense se huise die verkeerde indruk skep dat dit gebruik kan word om geskille op te los, het die radiostasie berig.

Die kwessie van vuurwapenbeheer word ook tans in die VSA bespreek.