Yeap ...last I heard, something like 78 000 of these confiscated and handed in weapons have been 'stolen' from our South African Police!!!

ATROCIOUS!

...and my question...where are all these guns...in the police depot...in the smelter...no....they are redistributed...sold...where is the money for the 303 and 9mm I handed in...and where are the rifles lost from your depots, the army, from police stations...where?

SA peaceful citizens are being disarmed to make it easier to horde them into a corner...

Fools

where is my machine gun? ...my mashiniwam...?

When are we getting traffic fines amnesty, or at least a window period of reduced fines?

Surely if premeditating murderers -as most of those with illegal guns have commited a crime or most of those guns were involved in some illegal act before changing hands- can receive amnesty for the tools-of-trade then it shouldn't be all that unthinkable to grant me a reprieve of my few transgessions with the traffic law?

98,631 firearms removed from circulation

What does this mean?

money money money....that's what is all about....finish and klaar

They'll just end up in the wrong hands.

"The amnesty provides for a procedure whereby a firearm, be it legal or illegal may be surrendered at any local police station without fear of being prosecuted," said Mnisi.

Does this mean that the criminals will be off the hook?? Maybe later go get more stock from the Saps/force what ever the hell they call themselves?

sod them ! I'd rather dig a hole in the garden

Once again we see a totally spurious connection made by the ANC between legally-held guns and crime.

There is no such connection.

The SAPS knows this, the ANC knows this and the Minister of Police knows this - why then continue to promote the notion that legal guns contribute in some way to the high crime levels in SA?

Fact is the SAPS has absolutely no way to track illegal guns in the hands of career criminals so it turns it's attention to the only guns it knows about - those owned legally by law abiding people who do NOT commit crimes!

Maybe the ANC should start by accounting for the 60 - 100 tons of weapons it smuggled into this country pre-1994! Who controls these today? - where are they stored? - who has access to them? Wh knows where they are stored?

None of these questions has been ansewerd in 15 years! Neither are any of these weapons actually licenced under current law!

Also no 'amnesty' is required following the SA Hunters judgement in the Pta High Court which ordered that all licenced guns will remain licenced until such time as the case is heard in the Constitutional Court - that is still many months away and the SAPS should stand down on this issue until that case is heard and until the second judgement in the Cape High Court is complied with - that one ordered the Minister of Police to come up with a proposal for compensation, as required by the FCA of 2000, to be paid to those who have or will surrender their legally-held property.

As the Secretary of Police Ms Irish-Qhobosheane herself said just days ago at a Police Secretariat Briefing on this amnesty, "SAPS had not actually had such a situation in the past, where a suspect handed in a weapon used in a crime."

Duh! - wonder what she expects to happen - criminals lining up at the cop shop to hand over their major tool-of-trade?

The stupidity is endless on the part of the ANC and trolls like these apparatchiks.

I wonder if the ANC genuises are banking on the criminals handing in their illegal firearms?