The Portfolio Committee on Police will convene a summit on gun control in February next year.
The committee took this decision at its meeting yesterday. Committee Chairperson, Mr Francois Beukman, says the committee resolved to convene the summit in order to evaluate the state of gun control in the country by receiving inputs from relevant stakeholders.
The committee will, after the summit, hold public hearings around the country to obtain public input into the Firearms Amendment Act, which is on the committee’s legislative programme for 2015. The Committee has also commissioned the Research unit of Parliament to make available a case study on the state of gun control in other jurisdictions, with special reference to Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries.
The Committee also resolved to evaluate on quarterly basis the revised plan SAPS tabled on how it planned to address challenges that have been found in the Central Firearms Registry.
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