Hello from South Africa

[Stevens]

Welcome! I visited South Africa many times from 1974 until 1998 when I was working selling equipment for the Sugar Industry and road construction. Usually the Natal area but also some time in Johannesburg visiting our dealer, Barlows, or as a transit stop on the way to Mozambique or Swaziland. I always enjoyed the Country and it's people.
Steve W

 

[jimbo728]

Welcome from New Hampshire, USA! I hope your next Smith&Wesson is a revolver! Then you will really be hooked.
Jim

 

[Muss Muggins]

Welcome from the bootheel of Missouri, the Show Me State and the heart of flyover country . . .

 

[Targets Guy]

Welcome to the forum.

 

[husker51]

Welcome from the Great Plains of Nebraska!

 

[Shark Bait]

Welcome from New Mexico

 

[rwsmith]

And a.......

And a Hound Dawg Howdy to you from SC, USA!

 

[JudeSD9]

Welcome from New Hampshire, USA! I hope your next Smith&Wesson is a revolver! Then you will really be hooked.
Jim

Hey buddy i actually have been looking at them. Beauties!

 

[JudeSD9]

Welcome! I visited South Africa many times from 1974 until 1998 when I was working selling equipment for the Sugar Industry and road construction. Usually the Natal area but also some time in Johannesburg visiting our dealer, Barlows, or as a transit stop on the way to Mozambique or Swaziland. I always enjoyed the Country and it's people.
Steve W

Hey budd, yeah i am originally from Natal, but moved to Johannesburg as work drew me here. Now am looking to the US.

 

[JudeSD9]

..and welcome to you...

I was fortunate enough to meet someone at an NRA Training Counselor course who was from Durban and got an invite to visit which I was able to take him up on three years later.

My friend did 19 years with SAP and now ran a very large security officers school that graduates a thousand+ people a year...everything from parking attendants to cash-in-transit (armor car) guards...

I stayed with he and his wife for a month and saw Durban, Cape Town, Kimberly, JoBerg and everything in between...

A very beautiful place..

Enjoy the new gun....Bob

Hey Bob, he security business is huge in S.A due to the crime. Even the police stations are guarded by independent security companies. Our beautiful country has been destroyed due to violent crime and corruption...

 

[JudeSD9]

Welcome from Delaware!

I also would enjoy hearing more about your laws for firearms.

Hi buddy, yeah our laws have changed alot . It is extremely difficult process which can take up to a year and even get rejected. There certain agencies that you can go through but it costs an arm and a leg .

About Us | SAPS (South African Police Service)

 

[JudeSD9]

Hello from Pennsylvania, the Keystone State. Tell us about gun ownership in South Africa.

Gun ownership is free for criminals here...lol
Well to sum it up , you go through competency training at your gun dealer or academy, pass the exam. Submit your application to the government through the police department in your area. Wait for your result to be deemed competent about 3 months. you can purchase your firearm and apply for the license which you have to do at the same police department, you will go through an interview as well as 3 people who you do not reside with will also be interviewed for your character reference. Once all the nitty gritty is out of the way finger prints done all forms signed off by the commissioner of the police department. then it goes to the head office for consideration which can take up to 3 months again if you lucky. If it is accepted then you will be notified to fetch the license after it is printed like your drivers license card. Then you can go and release it from the gun dealer where it is held or from who you have purchased it from.

When you speak to gun dealers they will tell you about the 100's of firearms that have been purchased and are still in their lockup safe as applications have been declined.
So all in all if everything goes to plan 1 year..

 

[JudeSD9]

Welcome and congrats on receiving your new pistol. It is a reliable hard worker.

Thank you , alot have negative comments abt this gun but am a firm believer that it is a reliable gun.

 

[JudeSD9]

Hello, welcome.
We usually only get Nigerian Prince's that need help cashing large checks here! lol
Great to have you.

Thanks buddy, i hear you .. We get them as well , i got 16 hollow points for them...lol

 

[Doug627]

Do you know Charlize Theron?

 

[Skollie14]

Charlize Theron

Yes - met her at an Academy screening in NYC

 

[Skollie14]

Howzit my Boet.
Ex Capetonian now living in NYC and Pennsylvania where I can buy guns to my hearts content.
In PA you select your gun, pass the background check and walk out with your purchase. Most times quicker than going to the supermarket!

 

[George_P_Burdell]

Greetings from greater Chicago (aka Chicongo).
I too had an SD9VE .. found the trigger at 12# of pull was ugly. How's the pull on yours? Hopefully better/less resistance than 12#. Wound up putting in an Apex spring kit, which helped, but that long DA pull was tough to overcome. Sold the gun on consignment, then used the cash as partial funding for a Canik TP9SA (gen 1). The Canik's pull is a soft ~4#, and the pistol has run flawlessly on every kind of ammo I've fed it.

 

[pmanton]

Hi from Salome, AZ.

 

[Moo Moo]

G'day from Sydney, Australia.