South Africans: how restrictive is application of your MAY ISSUE system

[Snejdarek]

I have dived into the South African gun laws and recent Constitutional Court decision that might lead to mass firearms confiscations.

I see that everything in the 60/2000 gun act is MAY ISSUE.

How is it in practice? Is issuing of licenses close to shall issue or is it more unpredictable? Here in Europe, if something is may issue when it comes to firearms, you can as well kiss it goodbye.

 

[Scott30]

This might help.

 

[Snejdarek]

This might help

Thanks, that's helpful. It shows that system is permissive may issue as it stands.

Now the question is: is that from good heartiness of the policemen deciding on the permits or is that in any way cemented in the law? It certainly does not seem to stem from their Gun Act itself.

What I am aming at is the fact that Austrian may issue concealed carry was permissive... until it wasn't. Same with Swedish permits for modern sporting rifles - they were permissive may issue... until they weren't. Nothing changed in the law, just the practice as dictated by a different government.

Given that South African Parliament has now adopted lawdictating confiscations of white farmers' property - which is now under review by the Constitutional Court - can the may issue system just switch to restrictive as it happened in other places before without this dire circumstances?