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A sculpture of a gun with a tied-up barrel, symbolizing a gun-free South Africa, is seen at the entrance to the Victoria and Albert waterfront shopping center in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1999. The government unveiled stringent new gun control legislation that year. The law stiffens sentences, obliges gun owners to reregister firearms every five years, and gives police more powers to investigate suspected owners of illegal weapons. (AP Photo/Obed Zilwa)