A report by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime released late last year found SA has an estimated 2.35-million illegal firearms in circulation.
Most of the weapons become instruments of violent crime and come directly from state departments and domestic homes.
Meanwhile, crimes during the 2021/22 period increased significantly, according to police service crime stats, both as a result of reported crimes and a jump in the number of crimes detected through police activity., our host Mike Siluma holds a gun control conversation.
Siluma is joined in studio by Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime researcher Jenni Irish-Qhobosheane, Gun Free SA representative and former police commander Jeremy Vearey and firearms legal expert Martin Hood.
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