received this via email today:

Dear Member

In order for NSA to be able to furnish the Minister of Police with realistic proof of the SAPS Firearms Section’s inability to finalise applications for competency certificates and for new licences in good time, we urgently need your assistance. This information could also be used if it should become necessary to bring urgent court application to effect a more realistic and achievable approach to the administration of the firearms licence applications process after 30 June 2009.

Members who have been negatively affected in the application of their firearms licences as per the under mentioned criteria, are urgently requested to please before 31 May 2009 fill in their particulars at the following web address (you can click through to the web address from this email): http://www.sahunters.co.za/nsa (Note that it is not the ordinary NSA web address, but an address related to the firearms forum).

Particulars needed from such members are the following:
(please complete the specific field which has bearing on your particular circumstances, and please ascertain that you fill in the field which indicates the SAPS station where you submitted your applications):

Applications for New Licences with competency:
Persons who had been issued with competency certificates when application for new licence(s) were submitted, and of who the application(s) were outstanding for longer than 6 months on 1 May 2009.
Applications for Competency:
Persons of who the application for competency was outstanding for longer than 12 months on 1 May 2009.
Applications for New Licences without competency:
Persons without competency and of who applications were outstanding for longer than 12 months on 1 May 2009.
Applications for Renewal of Licences:
Persons of who their applications for renewal of existing licences were outstanding for longer than 12 months on 1 May 2009.

Your urgent assistance in this regard will be highly appreciated.