The second bail application of a Gqeberha firearms dealer who faces a litany of charges relating to the Firearms Control Act was postponed in the city's Magistrates Court on Tuesday morning.
Karen Webb has been charged with theft, conspiracy to smuggle firearms, fraud, the unlicensed trading of firearms, providing firearms and ammunition to persons who are not allowed to possess them, and defeating the ends of justice.
She decided to launch a new bid for bail based on new facts after Magistrate Tobile Bara denied bail in February.
Tuesday's bail application had to be postponed because the Presiding Officer was sick.
Webb's arrest forms part of an ongoing police investigation into how firearms got into the possession of gangsters in the city's northern areas and other provinces.
Besides 76 firearms that had been positively linked to crimes in the city's northern areas and as far as the Western Cape and Gauteng, evidence was led that suggests that 437 of the 900 firearms registered on Webbs Arms are unaccounted for.
The theft charge relates to ten 9mm Glock pistols that went missing from the Aquila Arms’ stock while the cache was stored at her premises.
Webb has been in custody since her arrest and bail refusal in February.
The bail application based on new facts will be heard on Thursday.
