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    Default how many rifles and how many pistols can you own in SA?

    If I skip owning a shotgun, will that let me own one more firearm of some other type? I can do all that I am interested in doing with 1 rifle and 3 handguns, and 1 of the pistols is just to have a "spare", in a country where a fast replacement is probably not available.

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    Can your spouse own just as many more? Are there limits on the amount of ammo or reloading components that you can possess?

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    Default Re: how many rifles and how many pistols can you own in SA?

    Plenty of info here if you search.

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    Default Re: how many rifles and how many pistols can you own in SA?

    You can own as many guns as you can motivate. If of course you join a club and become a dedicated sport shooter or the like. As Springer mentioned, plenty info on this site if you use the search function. All your questions have been answered before.

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    In short, the average guy may own 4 firearms of which no more than 2 may be handguns. If you forego some handguns the empty slots may be filled by as many rifles as you like up to the 4 gun limit.

    If you want to exceed this limit you need to get dedicated status which, although it is very common among members of this forum, is pursued by only a tiny fraction of the gunowners in the country.

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    +1 get dedicated status, maintain that status and buy until your heart contends. Just make sure you motivate it right!!

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    Depends if you have Dedicated Status or not.

    If not, and you are licensing some on OSS (Occassional Sport), you may have a total of 4 firearms (Mixed between SD and OSS). In this event, a maximum of 2 hand-guns are allowed, so you will not be able to get 3 handguns.

    Dedicated Status is a different situation. The above would not apply.

    The same rulings above would apply to your wife.

    On non-DSS, there are limits to ammo and reloading (max 2400 primers per caliber, and limits on Powder).

    Read the FCA... the above is all in there.

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    That 2 more than I have. So I'm almost at my limit?

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    Quote Originally Posted by lithium View Post
    That 2 more than I have. So I'm almost at my limit?
    You can actually own all of them. It's the possession that's the issue.
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