Hi folks.
So, in the workup for the Constitutional Court case on 8 February (which looks like it might have to be postponed a bit, by the way), the FDD (our legal team) and some of the really clever guys (that’s not me… I just know smart guys) have only now been able to examine in greater detail all of the papers that are before court. Some of the participants to the case only filed their full papers this week, two parties still have to do so.
On the face of it, and at first glance, we are worried.
In the first instance GFSA have been accepted as a friend of the court (although they have no local membership or proven support). Their credentials were accepted without question by all of the other participants in this case who have filed papers. This horrifies us!
In the second instance SAPS has filed extremely good papers and they are relying on points of argument which our legal folk tell us are not fully covered by the players on our side of the fight. Remember that the court will rule on what is in front of them. This disturbs us greatly.
Finally, everybody seems to be happily accepting of the ‘reality’ of re-licensing. We are not. We feel that not only is re-licensing unnecessary, but given SAPS’ continually delinquent admin and management of the CFR, it is both physically impossible to accomplish and contra the objects of the Act in that it actually works against the proper control of firearms.
This is probably not the news you all want to hear at the beginning of the year, and it breaks my heart to have to be the bearer of bad tidings, but this is the assessed situation based on the papers we have examined so far.
We have a plan, however (in fact more than one). Don’t panic. But prepare yourselves for a mighty effort.
Written by Paul Oxley
Paul is chairman of Gun Owners SA
Diane Gunston
•5 years ago
It is madness to think that criminals will have guns and law abiding citizens won ‘t
Tommy
•5 years ago
My God grant us the freedom we deserve.
Let all Gun Owners pray for a speedy Victory for South Africa Gun Owners
Peter Moss
•5 years ago
Pray will not help in the least and not until firearm organisation officials grow some back bone and lead firwarm owners in objection to this inhumanity will we make any headway. The sympathy vote, firearm organisations favourites, begging, appeasing and collaboration and the courts are not the place to win.
Unless the public support you there is no chance of winning. We sit like lumps knowing government and GFSA are endangering public safety and do and say nothing at the bidding of our supposed bright boys and valiant leaders. We expect public sympathy because we teach firearm safety. Who on this earth is stupid enough to to think the public care how safe we think we are. The public care how safe THEY are and GFSA and government have convinced the public wee are a danger and problem that needs regulation. For goodness sakes this is not rocket science or difficult to understand.
GFSA do not need membership, they have massive public support and can turn out a few thousand protesters at the drop of a hat. Now people who will go march in the street will also vote for who is suggested.
Do we not understand it is GOVERNMENTS COURTS, paid for and selected by government. You cannot win in the courts. It would be better to show the firearm laws up to the FCA respected the right to arms and government has no business interfering with peoples ability o defend themselves unless it can prove conclusivly is it not ENDANGERING the public by seeking to disarm them. It is counter intuitive to claim disarming the victims of crime will make them safer. It is physically impossible for guns to control in any way human thought or actions. Absolutely no proof exists of such a claim. Beyond claimed chosen correlations there is no indication guns can exceed the laws of physics.
Jacques
•5 years ago
Thank you for the update and fighting the fight.
Hendrik Francois Steyn (Hennie)
•5 years ago
Thanks for the update I believe all will end well.
Mike Southey
•5 years ago
It is Marxist, Lenonist, Communist strategy to disarm the public so they can be controlled and live in fear that if they oppose the system they will be murdered by the criminals, so will do whatever they are told to do. In excess of ten million Russian farmers and other people who tried to protect themselves were brutally murdered, how many Zim and Mozambiqeu etc. people were murdered? Our soldiers were not in Angola fighting black people, they were defending our country against communism!! Creating racial hatred etc. is all part of the strategy. There is no other reason to change the gun laws. Gun laws do not prevent criminals from being armed. The laws and courts today are nothing less than the “criminal protection unit” Farmers used to be protected by military units around the country. Why have they been removed?
Martin Booysen
•5 years ago
Re Firearm amnesty. I read an article online, “Firearm amnesty given the red light” Cape Times 4 August 2017.
It speaks about amnesty for expired licenses, starting in November 2017 for a 6 month period thereafter.
Other news inducates that it has not been passed by Parliament. Is this correct?