SAGA and SAHunt
January 25, 2010 by GunSite SA
Filed under Blogs
17/01/2010
Dear SAGA and SAHunt
Lets examine the possibilities rather than jump to conclusions and start
singing and dancing in the streets.
The original intent of the Act was that competency would expire and would
have to be renewed. That means retaking the test to obtain a
certificate.
The SAPS duplication of effort of a recognised learning institutions
credibility was to have control of the process add justifiable time and
add expense. It could also be used as a point of refusal.
There is no automatic reissuing of an expired certificate from any of the
SETAs. If it expiries or has legislated expiry you do the test again.
That is the point of expiry on a certificate of learning. If the
certificate was valid for life it would not have an expiry date on it.
Now the SAPS have a problem, more work and remember that due to PUBLIC
PRESSURE which firearm owners claim does not work, the SAPS now have to
obtain the appearance of competency as well.
Two things to keep in mind. If the SAPS have other more important plans
for workload like getting those guns then they may well approve a
automatic process. Equally they may see a short term (5 years) increase
of expenses and effort as a means to push firearm owners into not
renewing. This can be rescinded before the SAPS have to renew again and
the job of disarmament has been completed. Naturally a ban may also be
considered as a solution.
That depends on how successful the SAPS think the FCA on its own will be
in removing citizens guns.
My guess is that the SAPS need no more than the FCA and can lull the
foolish firearm owners by letting firearm organisations do the SAPS’s
work and doing the SAPS publicity and promotion for them. Letting
firearm organisations crow about their success which is almost certain
they will do this. Firearm organisation have no other options because
they will have nothing else to brag about and no other direction to
thwart the FCA while members become more bitter by the day.
Consider that firearm organisations think at least one of these.
THE SAPS and government will bend or succumb to – hope, faith, goodwill,
sympathy, honesty, legality, courts, bankruptcy, work overload or tire of
this effort if it does not “work” as firearm organisations and owners
think it should.
We all have forgotten “Gun Control is NOT about GUNS it is about CONTROL.
There is another point that by posting stuff like this because nobody is
willing to examine and give due respect to the motivation of the SAPS it
gives the SAPS warning and if they have not thought of it, ideas.
The very best thing the SAPS and government could ever have hoped for was
firearm owners and organisations sitting on their bums because they had
from past experience known that firearm owners at the least would fight.
How wrong they were in giving this credit to firearm organisations who
have in fact not mobilised there members but instead allowed and
justified with public comments that those who have fallen prey to the FCA
can be sacrificed. That they promote the FCA and enforce compliance and
seek only to fiddle with the mechanism in order to make it work more
efficiently.
> We are expecting very good things to start happening for training
> providers once the new regulations have been released in approximately
> 2 months.
I’m confident the training providers are looking forward to extracting
the last drops of blood from firearm owners.
Regards
Peter
