Cape TownA police general admits some criminal guns come from police.

In South Africa, guns drive most violent crime and police count 36.72 murders per 100,000.

Many illegal guns were once legally owned, then stolen or diverted from civilians, firms and state actors, Deputy Commissioner Tebello Mosikili said.

The Auditor-General found no audit evidence for more than 6,000 recovered illegal guns, though real performance may be better.

Gun Free South Africa says the Central Firearms Registry has lacked oversight for 15 years.

How each outlet framed it
Daily Maverick leans critical
cites Colonel Prinsloo case (2016) to show how destruction pipeline diverts confiscated firearms to gangsters

Sources: Daily Maverick