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Tracey, Lauren. 2013 ‘Number of Registered Firearms.’ Avoiding Stray Bullets - the Need for Improved Firearms Control. Pretoria: Transnational Threats and International Crime Division, Institute for Security Studies. 11 March
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Number of Registered Firearms
In August 2011, the Central Firearms Registry (CFR) reported that approximately 2.9 million firearms were registered to just over 1.8 million civilians[1] in South Africa. This is a reduction from 1994, when there were 3.5 million licensed firearms in the hands of 2.4 million individuals.
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[1] Editor's note: the precise figure is reported to be 1,845,032 according to Gun Free South Africa, who originally sourced this number from an affidavit from the Minister of Police.
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