Namibia: Government Wants Gun Ban

27 September 2007

Windhoek — Government  intends to impose a temporary moratorium on issuing firearm licences and to amend several sections of the law regulating the possession of arms.

In a ministerial statement, Peter Tsheehama, who is the Minister of Safety and Security, told the National Assembly on Tuesday that one of the proposed amendments would be to prohibit the sale of small firearms and light weapons "to individual, natural persons."

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