15 minutes to get a gun

Rustenburg – For those who have endured the legal process of purchasing a gun, from competency and applying for a license… to the long wait... the procedure from start to finish can take up to two years. 
Criminals, however, can pop in at the Rustenburg Taxi Rank and obtain an illegal firearm in less than 15 minutes. 
To demonstrate that the new proposed Firearms Control Amendment Bill will have no impact on criminals and would only leave law abiding citizens vulnerable, two employees of a local company took to the Rustenburg Taxi Rank and asked the very first taxi driver they came across where they could buy a firearm. 
He pointed them in the direction of a group of men standing around a Toyota Tazz. They casually approached one of the men and asked if he had anything that they could use to defend themselves. (PS: If he wrote this on his firearm application however, his application would most probably have been declined.) The guy popped his boot and folded back a blanket covering a wide range of illegal firearms. The firearms ranged from a Glock 19 to an AK47 and heaps of ammunition. He and one of his colleagues assured them that all the firearms they sell are untraceable. 
All in all, it took them about 15 minutes to be offered an untraceable firearm for as little as R500 including enough ammunition to cause serious damage. 
In a separate incident, a Platinum Weekly employee was on an investigative assignment and found himself in a tavern near Rasimone. A man came up to him with a plastic Checkers shopping bag and offered him a gun for cash. 
Buying an illegal firearm, it seems, is as easy as buying bread and milk at your local café.