Is Banning Fake Guns South Africa’s Next Step?

What’s a gun-hating government to do if they pretty much ban guns but violent criminals continue plying their trade of robbery, rape and assault? In South Africa, banning replica guns—many of them nothing more than kids’ toys—just might be the next move. According to a report at iol.co.za, that’s what Cape Town Provincial Thembisile Patekile wants … Read more

Payment Processor Square Forces Book Store Closure Over Non-Firing Gun Replicas

This story comes rather unsurprisingly from California. A bookstore by the name of Columbia Booksellers and Variety Store was forced to close both their brick-and-mortar location and their online store thanks to the tech company Square, Inc. suddenly terminating Columbia’s use of their payment processing services. The Modesto Bee reports: “This came out of the … Read more