September 9, 2020 15 Comments
The License the Person, Register the Firearm public participation campaign is now live on Dear South Africa. We invite and encourage everyone to please participate in this vital effort…
Our government has treated smokers and alcohol consumers like second-class citizens for months. And they had zero recourse – the government just trampled their rights and privileges underfoot. There…
It is by now old news that parliament approved a new six-month firearm amnesty, effective from 1 August. I harbour serious and material concerns about this. The 2010 firearm…
August 4, 2020 5 Comments
My fellow South Africans, This isn’t a “I-told-you-so” post. As much fun as I can have by indulging in the limitless schadenfreude of vindication, the world-shattering scale of the…
So it seems my social media feed is being dominated by a video of a ‘self-defence instructor’ who uses some very contentious, and indeed – from my point of…
Gun rights in South Africa have always been a hot topic. The right to keep and bear arms is something that cuts across racial and cultural boundaries, and is…
We like to throw terms around. It’s probably inherent to human nature. We love abbreviations, contractions, and other nonsense words. They are little parcels of meaning that escape the…
Lance Sergeants Otto and James hardly ever worked together. These were the days when even a couple of full Sergeants (what the military called a Staff Sergeant) on a…
Before we start, let me state that I really despise the term Gender-Based Violence. It infers that the abuse and violence is a result of the victim’s gender. And…
Carrying a handgun for self-defence is such a wide topic of discussion, it’s quite difficult to condense into one article. There are a great many carry methods. Some are…
