FIREARM RENEWALS
At Legally Armed we ensure the application process is not a burden to you.
NEW LICENSE APPLICATIONS AND ACCREDITATIONS
We type, motivate, bind and guarantee your license making use of the relevant supporting documents.
SERVICES RENDERED TO ATTORNEYS
Legally Armed also renders a service to other attorneys in applications, estate firearms, appeals etc.
SERVICES RENDERED BY LEGALLY ARMED HOEDSPRUIT IN ASSOCIATION WITH MARTIN & de beer ATTORNEYS
COMPETENCY CERTIFICATES (*issued by the police to-)
• Individuals
• Collectors
• With previous conviction/s
• Renewals
• Further competency
• Dealers, manufacturers and gunsmiths
NEW LICENSES (*include for additional licenses)
• Sect. 13 self-defence
• Sect. 14 restricted firearm for self-defence
• Sect. 15 occasional- hunting & sportshooting
• Sect. 16 dedicated hunting & sportshooting
• Sect. 17 private collector
APPLICATIONS FOR BUSINESSES LICENSES (*“Responsible person” must have relevant competency certificate. Include security companies & entities formally accredited with CFR – see ”ACCREDITATIONS FOR BUSINESS PURPOSES”)
• New licenses
• Renewals
• Dealers, Manufacturers and Gunsmiths
APPLICATION FOR IMPORTS- / EXPORT PERMITS & TRANSPORTER’S PERMITS (*Firearms stipulated on permanent import permit must normally be licensed within 1 year of entry into SA.)
APPLICATIONS FOR TEMPORARY AUTHORISATION TO POSSESS A FIREARM (*Section 21)
• Individuals
• Foreigners – need not possess a competence certificate
• For business purposes – include dealers, manufacturers & gunsmith (on other premises as those specified on license)
ACCREDITATIONS FOR BUSINESS PURPOSES (*“Responsible person” must have relevant competency certificate)
• Public collector
• Museum
• Hunting association, Sports-shooting organisation Collectors association
• Shooting range
• Training providers in the use of firearms
• Provide firearms for use in theatrical, film or television productions
• Game rancher
• Conduct business in hunting as PH
• Official institution
• Other business purposes (several different options and depends on main object of the business, such as in-house security, anti-poaching, etc.)
APPEALS
• Refusals in general
• Previous convictions
• Unfit declaration of police trial (procedural)
• Upliftment of unfitness declaration
LEGAL
• Process wherein SAPS attempt to declare a firearm owner unfit to possess a firearm/s i.t.o Sect. 102 investigation, by submitting representations to the police Legal Section to stop proceedings / or attend the tribunal proceedings
• Drafting affidavit/s & representation on behalf of an accused who has been charged criminally for a contravention of the Act
• Litigation in damages claims – for example illegal arrests and detention where the matter is Act related
• Assistance with applications to apply for further / additional state documents i.t.o the PAJA- and PAI
• Drafting of legal opinions
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