However, other claims made by Gun Owners SA, which opposes amendments to the Firearms Control Act, are either incorrect or there is no available data to support them, says Africa Check.
Africa Check said Oxley understated the cuts to the police budget by R900m. Oxley had said the budget cuts were R3bn.
The latest data from the World Health Organisation shows that SA’s murder rate was 35.8 per 100,000 people in 2019. This meant the country ranked 10th out of 183 countries.Africa Check said the claim that SA was one of the most homicidal countries in the world was correct. A claim that firearms are stolen from the police at 10 times the rate at which they are stolen from civilians was unproven, it said.
In 2017/18, 7,836 firearms were stolen or lost by civilians, and this meant 472 firearms per 100,000 gun owners were lost or stolen.
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