Gun control is universal
For generations the 150,000-officer South African Police Service (SAPS) have been issued Vektor R5 rifles in addition to their sidearms. They are usually carried one per 2-officer car much as patrol carbines have been carried in the states for years. If you don’t know what the gun is, its a short carbine version (13.-inch barrel) of the 5.56 mm Israeli Galil SAR, which is license-manufactured in the country and has been since 1980.
Now, gun control advocates are seeking that the government stacks them up.
“This follows a shocking report from the Farlam Commission at which an expert witness, Cees de Rover, noted that the use of R5s was “extremely dangerous and violated international policing best practice” because a bullet fired from an R5 rifle will travel for up to 600m after it is fired — increasing the risk of injuring bystanders. Also, because bullets from these rifles disintegrate, it is extremely difficult to holding individual officers accountable when the rifles are used to shoot at a crowd….”
600m from a 5.56mm? SS109 rounds Disintegrate? Seriously?
No mention of course that the murder rate in SA is 44th in the world (the U.S. is 100th) and that heavily armed criminals in border regions still have access to a vast array of old Zimbabwe/Angola-era Warsaw Pact weapons.
Meh.