A DIRECTIVE from acting national police
commissioner Khomotso Phahlane that firearms owners who fail to
relicence their firearms before their existing licences expire must
forfeit their weapons to the state has run into legal trouble, and will
be challenged in court soon.
Gen Phahlane issued the directive to
all police stations earlier this month, instructing them that if a
firearms licence has expired then the weapon must be handed in to the
nearest police station, because "the owner is no longer in legal
possession" of the firearm.
