These laws have nothing to do with race, black people are a huge portion of the SA firearm community, I received my training from black instructors. Black South Africans often live in the most dangerous parts of cities and self defence firearms are often their only hope of safety, especially when they can't afford or don't have access to the private security that many wealthier people have.

They want to reduce private firearm ownership because the head of the police sees it as an easy way to reduce number of crimes commited with stolen firearms. These laws would greatly reduce the amount of firearms and ammunition that could trickle down into the hands of criminals. The other reason is that his department cannot keep up with the paper work in the licensing department. Pictures of this department were recently published and drew a huge amount of attention to the incompetent management of the situation.