Cape Town – A 67-year-old Mpumalanga man was expected to appear in the Chief Albert Luthuli Magistrate’s Court on Friday, 19 January, after he was allegedly found with more than 100 firearms and 1 700 rounds of ammunition under his bed and in his wardrobe.
Police spokesperson Colonel Donald Mdhluli said the man was arrested after Mpumalanga police received a tip-off about firearms stored in a house in Elukwatini, according to TimesLive.
He said during a search of the man’s house police “discovered a total of about 106 firearms as well as 1,704 ammunition”.
“Among the weapons found in the house are 14 rifles, eight shotguns, 84 pistols with ammunition, about 921 [rounds of] ammunition for rifles and 65 shotgun [cartridges],” he said.
IOL reported that the man was arrested for contravention of the Firearms Control Act,
It has also been reported that the suspect was affiliated to a security company.
A 67-year-old man from Elukwatini, Mpumalanga is set to appear in court after being arrested for possessing unlicensed firearms and violating South Africa's Firearm Control Act.
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Mdhluli said police discovered that licences for some of the firearms, which could be owned by a security company, had expired. The suspect could not account for about 20 firearms, he said.
Mdhluli added that police “established he did not have licences for four pistols which had ammunition, hence he was arrested and charged. Part of the probe is to understand how he got hold of these firearms”.
The weapons and ammunition were confiscated and the guns would undergo ballistics testing to determine whether they were used during the commissioning of a crime.
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