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How Firearm License Pro SA works

You fill in your details once. We turn them into a complete, SAPS-ready application, every time you need one, for the rest of the time you own firearms.

Your profile comes first. Every application is built from your profile and the documents you upload, so finish the profile steps below before you apply. Stuck on a step? Use Ask for assistance on your profile and we will help.

1. Create your account

Free. No card, no commitment. You can look around before you decide anything.

2. Complete your profile

Scan your ID or type in your details, your address and your employment. Your SAPS forms are filled in from these.

3. Upload your personal documents

Your ID and a proof of address not older than 3 months.

4. Add your training certificates

Upload each training certificate with its Statement of Results.

5. Add the competencies and firearms you already have

Anything SAPS has already issued to you. It makes your motivation stronger.

6. Add your clubs and associations

If you belong to one: hunting, sport shooting or collector associations, and any dedicated status.

7. Add your safe and its photos

If you own a firearm or are applying for one: a photo of your safe open and one closed.

8. Only then choose your application

Apply once your profile is complete, because the forms are filled from it. New firearm licence, firearm renewal, new competency, competency renewal, a Section 20 business application, a change of address, or an appeal against a refusal.

9. Answer a short set of questions

Which section, which firearm, your reasons. One thing at a time, in plain English. Where a question does not apply to you, we do not ask it.

10. We build the pack

The correct SAPS form filled from your profile, a motivation letter written for your section and your circumstances, and a document checklist for your situation.

11. Check it, print it, sign it

Read the letter. It is about you, so it should sound like you. Change anything you want changed and regenerate.

12. Lodge it at your SAPS station

With your Designated Firearm Officer, at the station covering your home address. Get the receipt.

13. Track it, free

Record the reference number and log each status change. We check in if nothing moves for a month, and remind you four months before anything expires.

What you get

• The correct SAPS form, filled and ready to sign.
• A motivation letter written from your own facts, inside the permitted angle for your section, not a template.
• A document checklist built for your circumstances.
• The whole thing assembled into one bundle you can print.

Where the motivation letter comes from

It is generated from your profile, your age and circumstances, your employment, your address, your competency and any further training, every firearm you already hold, your declarations, your club or association memberships and dedicated status, and the published crime figures for your own SAPS precinct where the section allows it.

It stays inside the section's permitted angle by design. It will not write a self-defence sentence into a Section 15 letter, because that is a refusal. More on motivation letters →

What is free

• Creating an account and filling in your profile.
• Application tracking, always, it is never gated behind a payment.
• Expiry reminders, four months ahead of every licence and competency you record.

You pay when you unlock a completed application pack. See pricing.

In any official language

The app runs in South Africa's official languages, so the person filling in the form can work in the language they think in. The SAPS forms themselves are submitted as SAPS requires them.