MR PRINSLOO
Mr Chair, the applicants wished to obtain firearms.  What they did because of the circumstances with that weapon, cannot with respect, affect their application because it is a fact, they went to Van Rensburg, the Commander's house.  He was informed of what had happened, he helped the applicant, he covered up the fact that he was injured, he had him treated so that the police couldn't find him or discover him.
	The second thing they did was exactly the same with the firearm, to keep that in circulation so that these people could be linked, because they were using legal firearms, not stolen firearms in their attack, so their firearms would be able to be brought into connection with the cartridge casings found on the scene.  They did they just have to go and hand themselves over to the police without any resistance?  Then there wouldn't have been a struggle.
	That in all honestly, couldn't have been the case.