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1.          This is an urgent application. The applicant, a non-profit organization established for the stated purpose of safeguarding and protecting the rights of all licensed firearm dealers, gunsmiths and manufacturers in the Republic , seeks an interim interdict against the respondents.

2.          The respondents are the officials within the South African Police Service designated[1] in terms of the Firearms Control Act 60 Of 2000 with the implementation of the Act. The interim interdict is to prevent the respondents from unilaterally refusing to give permission to applicants who wished to effect a change of barrel to a licensed firearm.

3.           The application is brought in two parts - firstly for an interim interdict, part A and secondly for a review of the decision taken by the respondents and communicated to the applicants on 28 May 2019, part B. It is only part A that is before me for determination and the relief sought in part B will in due course be set down for hearing on the ordinary opposed motion roll.