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In South Africa, owning a gun is conditional on a competency test. This was introduced in 2004.

Around 12,000 people die per year from gunshot wounds, accounting for around 25% of annual deaths by unnatural causes [#endnote_bbc].

Notes

  1.   [BBC News - SA gun deaths rise] (BBC article from February 2000)

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