On Target Africa

Update on the Firearms Control Amendment Bill

trict gun control was implemented for the first time in South Africa 140 years ago. This led to what became known as the Gun War from 1880 to 1881. The conflict occurred in the then British territory of Basutoland (present-day Lesotho) in Southern Africa. It was fought between Cape Colony forces and

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