Firearms Control Latest: Citizens stripped of right to own guns
Police Minister Bheki Cele hiked the budget for VIP protection for politicians by R1,7 billion and now wants to remove citizens' firearms.
“Sheer madness. Shocking and disturbing, but not unexpected from a brain-dead police ministry,” is how Gun Owners South Africa has described the state’s move to disarm citizens via the proposed 2021 Firearms Control Amendment Bill released for public comment on Friday.
“Like a rotting corpse floating to the surface of a cesspool, the 2018 ‘draft’ amendment bill has reappeared, bringing with it the stench of long-dead thinking and outmoded paternalism. Magical thinking also…the straight out of Hollywood Ballistic Fingerprinting fraud scheme is getting another chance to absorb whatever is left of the SAPS budget,” ” GOSA chairman, Paul Oxley said in a statement.