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JFJ chastises Gov’t for not listening

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JFJ chastises Gov’t for not listening
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HUMAN rights group Jamaicans For Justice (JFJ) has welcomed the decision by the Government to amend the Firearms Act of 2022 to allow for lesser sentencing guidelines for persons found in possession of imitation firearms.

However, JFJ is critical of the Administration for ignoring its recommendation not to place the possession of a fake gun in the same category of a real firearm that can discharge rounds, at the time the new law was being developed. JFJ’s Executive Director Mickel Jackson said,

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