Firearms
US gun violence: 17,000 killed in the last five months alone
Only five months into 2022, more than 17,000 people, including 650 children, have been shot and killed in the United States.
Governments around the world have continued to buy arms during the pandemic and some also passed measures to help their big weapons firms, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
The SA Gunowners' Association's Damian Enslin said the implications of having this Bill passed are far-reaching and that the economy will suffer a major blow.
A task team aimed at rooting out extortion in the township conducted patrols on Friday night when they spotted a group of men outside a tavern in Site B.
At the weekend, Western Cape crime intelligence received a tip-off about a premises storing firearms.
Drugs with a street value of around R4 million were also confiscated during a police operation in Elsies River on Friday night.
They were nabbed during an intelligence driven operation at the start of the weekend during which officers searched identified houses in the two communities.
Between July and November, officers seized 53 firearms, of which 28 were imitation weapons.
702's Bongani Bingwa interviewed Gideon Joubert, the deputy chairperson of Gun Owners of South Africa.
Earlier this week, a one year old child was accidentally shot by her foster father on a farm in Paterson, while he was getting ready for shooting practice.
Children in just 14 of the pairs gave the gun to a research assistant or told them about it when they found it.
Deputy Police Minister Bongani Mkongi said that the battle against gangsterism can be won, but communities need to play a greater role in assisting police.
The police's Andre Traut says the suspect is due to appear in the Bishop Lavis Magistrate's Court tomorrow.
The man tried to flee when police officers approached his vehicle on Thursday, but he was apprehended shortly thereafter.
Police melted down 23,000 illegal confiscated and retired SAPS firearms at a smelting plant in Germiston.
They were arrested in Kuils River earlier this week during an intelligence-driven operation.
Three men face several charges related to the theft of firearms, ammunition and explosives.
The Hawks are investigating a father and son believed to be illegal manufacturers of homemade firearms.
47 people are killed in the country every day compared to 45 in the 2012/13 financial year.