Gun Owners of South Africa

Gun Owners of South Africa (Afrikaans: Wapeneienaars van Suid-Afrika , WESA, GOSA) is a gun rights advocacy group for South Africa, established in 2006. Its first meeting, under leader Charl van Wyk, was held in a Cape Town suburb, attended by 100 people.[1]

Larry Pratt, head of Gun Owners of America, spoke at a GOSA conference, and publicly criticized a South African police chief who opposed the group.[2]

GOSA executive Wouter de Waal has stated: "The state attempts to control guns... On the other hand it’s dead easy to buy an AK-47 off the streets. That’s the problem with gun control. It only controls law-abiding people".[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "New gun lobby to fight weapons restrictions in crime-plagued South Africa - News". JamaicaObserver.com. 2006-01-27. Retrieved 2015-02-01.
  2. ↑ Joshua Horwitz; Casey Anderson (1 January 2009). Guns, Democracy, and the Insurrectionist Idea. University of Michigan Press. pp. 48–. ISBN 0-472-02199-0.
  3. ↑ Ndifuna Ukwazi – DARE TO KNOW (2013-02-20). "Gun Ownership: Good or bad? « Ndifuna Ukwazi – DARE TO KNOW". Nu.org.za. Retrieved 2015-02-01.
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