According to an expert, recent changes to Israel’s firearms policy aren’t significant enough to really help protect Israel’s civilian population from further terror attacks.
We’ve chronicled here back in 2022 on how Israel’s restrictive gun laws have left most citizens unprotected and in danger. After the horrific, brutal attack on citizens by Hamas terrorists over the weekend, the Minister of National Security has instructed the Firearms Licensing Division to begin an emergency operation to allow more citizens to arm themselves.
The directive does four things: shortens wait time for a permit to carry a firearm by making telephone interviews available instead of in-person interviews, permits anyone who had a conditional permit to purchase a gun in 2022 but whose license expired to purchase a firearm without seeking another permit, allows anyone who forfeited their gun in the past six months due to failure to conduct refresher or renewal training to receive their weapon back, and allows permit holders to purchase up to 100 rounds of ammunition, rather than the 50 rounds previously permitted.
But according to a firearms tactical trainer who grew up near the West Bank and now teaches Israeli military and defensive tactics to American citizens, the changes aren’t significant enough to really help protect Israel’s civilian population from further terror attacks. In fact, Yonatan Stern, director of Pennsylvania-based Cherev Gidon Israeli Tactical Training, directly blames the government’s restrictive gun laws for enabling the terrorists involved in the massacre.
By Mark Chesnut
