South African Firearms Module

Potential firearm owners must successfully undergo the prescribed training at an accredited training institution and obtain a competency certificate from an accredited training institution.

This module is aimed (forgive the pun ) at those training institutions to assist their students and members to manage their competences and be in a position to demonstrate their activity in terms of collecting firearms, training to use the firearms and active participation in the club/training institute to ensure the members are in good standing order. The basis is such that the member takes responsibility for doing most of the work to ensure compliance with the admin simple there to ensure everything runs smoothly and maintain the basic database with minimal input required into the member's information.

This is the first version and there are a couple of issues that need fixing and reworking but it is mostly functional.

The module was developed with the input from PAAA “Pretoria Wapen en Ammunisie Vereniging / Pretoria Arms and Ammunition Association” and takes care of the following;

Members Information

• Full personal details
• Compliance Status
• Personal Firearms Collection Database
• Specifying your “Fields of Interests”
• Recording annual activities

Administration – Default Module data

• Define the “year” the compliance period runs for
• Define/Manage “Activity” types
• Define/Manage “Committee” types
• Define/Manage “Venues”
• Define/manage “Classifications” categories
• Define/manage “Seniority”
• Add/Update the comprehensive list of pre-defined firearm “Makes” database
• Add/Update the comprehensive list of pre-defined firearm “Calibers” database
• Add/Update the comprehensive list of pre-defined firearm “Action” database

Administration – Members data

• Additional Data
  This section covers all the additional information relevant specifically to the Firearm Module and as required by the South African firearm legislation
• Activities
  List of activities for any specific member
• Collections
  Collections of firearms for each member.
• Activity Reports
  Search for and generate reports for a specific member, location or activity type.

Further Development

That depends pretty much on how the legal requirements change to obtaining and maintaining a firearm license in South Africa.

One thing that was not part of the development specification but will most probably be implemented is to send an e-mail reminder when a firearm license is about to expire. This functionality should be enabled or disabled globally by admin and if enabled, allowed or disallowed by the member on a firearm basis.