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Relicencing
statistics to March 16 2009
This
FCA process began after promulgation of the FCA in 2004 and ends
March 30 2009 - by which date all 2.5 million firearm-owners would
be expected to have applied for relicencing of their legally held
firearms.
This
has simply not happened as government envisaged - basically they
anticipated that the process would see about 500 000 owners each
year making application, thus over a 5 year period (2004 -2009)
all 2.5 million applications would have been received and/or processed
by granting or by refusing a licence.
Below
is a chart showing the stats of what has happened.
| 16
March 2009 : From a Freedom Front press release |
| Firearm
licence renewal figures from the CFR (Central Firearms Registry),
via questions in Parliament. |
|
.
|
2004 |
2005 |
2006 |
2007 |
2008 |
2009 |
| Apps
Received |
0 |
126
404 |
215
931 |
259
393 |
263
583 |
15
825 |
| Total
Apps Received (Cumulative) |
. |
126
404 |
342
335 |
601
728 |
86
5311 |
881
136 |
| . |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
| Licences
Granted |
0 |
4
089 |
48
159 |
125
248 |
133
560 |
7
641 |
| Licences
Granted (cumulative) |
0 |
4089 |
52248 |
177496 |
311056 |
318697 |
| %
Successful |
|
3.2% |
22.3% |
48.2% |
50.7% |
36.17% |
| Apps
Rejected |
0 |
2
865 |
5
669 |
11
258 |
3
250 |
254 |
| Apps
On Appeal |
0 |
0 |
26 |
162 |
510 |
81 |
| Fully
Processed |
0 |
6
954 |
53
828 |
136
506 |
136
810 |
7
895 |
| %
Processed |
. |
3.8% |
24.9 |
52.6 |
51.9 |
49.8 |
| %
Unprocessed |
. |
96.2 |
75.1 |
47.4 |
48.1 |
50.2 |
| Number
Outstanding (Year) |
. |
119450 |
162103 |
122887 |
126773 |
7930 |
| Number
Outstanding (Cumulative) |
. |
. |
281553 |
404440 |
531213 |
539143 |
From
the figures above several deductions can be made with an acceptable
degree of accuracy.
Firstly
the figures relate only to applications received and do not address
the question of application NOT received.
Your
chance of being granted a licence appears to be about 50% in recent
years but on average much lower - around 36% or about 1 in 3 - poor
odds?
Of
course these figures will include not only application for Relicencing
of existing firearms but also NEW applications from people who wish
to own a firearm for the first time - we do not have any split regarding
this as this figure is not divulged.
One
very important consideration - the applications for relicencing
would be made by people who believe there would be no reason why
they should be refused - such as a criminal record, a conviction
for negligent use or loss of a firearm etc - in other words people
like YOU, who perhaps anticipated no difficulty whatsoever in betting
the new licence under the FCA.
The
stats here show that they were quite wrong in that belief and that
various government spokespeople were not exaggerating when they
stated that the ultimate aim of the FCA is to remove ALL legally-held
firearms from the citizens of SA.
Now
to the crucial aspect that these figures reveal:
| Individuals
licenced under the old law |
2
000 000 (est) |
. |
| Firearms
licenced under the old law |
4
000 000 (est) |
. |
| Applications
for renewal of licences |
881
136 |
22% |
| Firearms
handed in for destruction |
600
000 (est) |
. |
| Firearms
which will become illegal on 30 June 2009 |
about
2.5 MILLION. |
. |
| Refusenik
rate (people who are choosing NOT to relicence) |
2
400 000 |
70% |
If
you have found our website, may we presume you have an interest
in this subject and are in fact one of the 'refuseniks"? If
so and as a law-abiding citizen of SA, you may be worried that you
have failed to comply with the FCA - there are, judging by the figures
above a lot of gun-owners like you!
But
let us not worry - let us begin the fight for our rights TODAY!
We will not be persecuted by government and it's propagandist fellow-travellers
such as the organisation known as Gun Free South Africa, nor will
we be painted as 'criminals'
We will not be characterised as 'gun-nuts' or 'dangerous people'
by proponents of disarmament or by government as a result of our
having the foresight to take the sensible precaution of owning the
means for defence
We will not accept that, now that we are deemed by government edict
to own 'illegal' guns, we are so afraid to use them in self-defence
for fear of legal consequences that our own lives and those of our
loved ones are put at risk
We will not accept that we must hand in this legally owned and valuable
property to authorities in the knowledge that they are likely to
end up in unsuitable hands and possibly used in the commission of
crime
We will not accept that removing firearms from legal owners can
have any beneficial effect on crime or have any effect on the number
of illegal guns in criminal hands
JOIN
US TODAY!
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