Tag: firearms
19 firearms, drugs seized in Western Cape operations
Western Cape police last week scored major successes when 19 illegal firearms, 790 rounds of ammunition and drugs worth R2 million were confiscated during...
SAPS destroys 24 901 firearms
The South African Police Service (SAPS) on Thursday destroyed 24 901 firearms, which include firearms voluntarily handed over during the previous two firearm amnesty...
Stiff resistance to South Africa’s proposed gun law changes
Some 60 000 people have signed the Democratic Alliance’s petition against the proposed Firearms Control Bill, which seeks to remove self defence as a...
Fourteen nabbed for possession of illegal firearms
Police arrested 14 suspects and recovered two unlicensed firearms and ammunition on Friday night in Khayelitsha, in Cape Town.
Members attached to Tactical Combat Task Team (TRT/POP)...
Thousands of firearms destroyed in SA
Police Deputy Minister Cassel Mathale and National Police Commissioner, General Khehla Sitole, witnessed destruction of over 23 000 firearms either confiscated or surrendered to...
Gun with a chip: U.S. Army contracts may lead to a...
A carbine that can call in an airstrike. A computer-aided scope on a machine gun that can turn just about anyone into a marksman....
Cele to request firearm amnesty period
Police Minister Bheki Cele says to deal with the proliferation of illegal firearms - which are a major contributor to crime levels – the...
SA must relook at access to firearms: Cele
South Africa would be better off if only its armed forces and not private citizens had access to firearms, Police Minister Bheki Cele said...
Americans own nearly half world’s guns in civilian hands
Americans make up 4 percent of the world's population but owned about 46 percent of the estimated 857 million weapons in civilian...
Gunmaker Remington gets approval for loan to carry it through
U.S. gunmaker Remington Outdoor Co Inc won court approval on Tuesday to borrow an interim $75 million to sustain its business during...
US gunmaker Remington files for bankruptcy
Remington Outdoor Co Inc, one of the largest U.S. makers of firearms, filed for bankruptcy protection on Sunday to carry out a...
Thousands of police not competent to carry firearms
No less than 3 500 policemen and women are uncertified to carry firearms and a "startling" 11 000 do not have competency...
Stolen or lost police weapons
Police have either lost or had more than 2 500 firearms stolen over the past three financial years.
Democratic Alliance shadow police minister...
Trump administration prepares to ease export rules for U.S. guns
The Trump administration is preparing to make it easier for American gun makers to sell small arms, including assault rifles and ammunition, to foreign...
Hawks investigating missing firearms
Police Minister Fikile Mbalula has expressed dismay at reports that 33 firearms have disappeared from two police stations – the Bellville South...
SAPS to study judgement of firearm renewals
The South African Police Service says it will study the Gauteng North High Court ruling which declared two sections of the Firearms...
Minister Mbalula vows to silence SA’s guns
Police Minister Fikile Mbalula has vowed to disarm South Africa by 2063.
"We must silent the guns by 2063… We have developed a...
Book Review: Firearms Developed and Manufactured in Southern Africa 1949-2000
This weighty tome is a definitive reference guide to firearms developed during the region's golden age of gunmaking.
It took seventeen contributors...
ISS: Will fewer firearms make South Africa safer?
Hlupha was eight when he got his first gun and his neighbour taught him to commit crime. His first robbery was of...
Parliamentary question: lost and stolen firearms
2571. Dr P J Groenewald (FF Plus) to ask the Minister of Police:
(1) How many firearms belonging to (a) private persons, (b) private...
