Gun Free SA welcomes the declaration that a six month national firearms amnesty will begin on 1 December. SA’s experience of holding amnesties confirms how effective they are at recovering unwanted, unauthorised and illegal guns. If the 2019/20 amnesty is undertaken as part of a comprehensive strategy aimed at recovering and destroying the existing pool of firearms and limiting new firearms into communities it holds the potential to begin reversing SA’s gun violence crisis.
STATEMENT: Welcome declaration of 6 month national firearms amnesty starting 1 December