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ST AUGUSTINE MP Khadijah Ameen is emphasising the significance of licensed firearms for farmers in light of the proposed stand-your-ground law.

“Many people may feel it is not applicable to farmers but farmers are businessmen. They go to the garden, they go to the market with goods and money and a lot of the transactions are done in cash.

“...They are at the mercy of bandits and people who are coming armed with illegal guns, taking their crops, stealing their equipment and they cannot protect their property.