{"id":1309,"date":"2026-09-06T07:08:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T05:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.safecitizen.co.za\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2026-09-09T16:43:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T14:43:22","slug":"formal-letter-of-notice-to-qcto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.safecitizen.co.za\/index.php\/2026\/09\/06\/formal-letter-of-notice-to-qcto\/","title":{"rendered":"Formal Letter of Notice to QCTO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style id=\"sc-qcto-letter-post-image-size\">\n.single-post.postid-1309 .post-image {\n  text-align: center;\n  margin-bottom: 28px;\n}\n.single-post.postid-1309 .post-image img {\n  display: inline-block !important;\n  width: 33.333% !important;\n  max-width: 460px !important;\n  min-width: 260px;\n  height: auto !important;\n}\n@media (max-width: 767px) {\n  .single-post.postid-1309 .post-image img {\n    width: 70% !important;\n    min-width: 0;\n    max-width: 320px !important;\n  }\n}\n<\/style>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Safe Citizen has sent a formal Letter of Notice to QCTO. At the centre of it: Qualification 50480, the qualification that governs firearm competency training in South Africa and a question about who gets to be trusted to run it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the full letter here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.safecitizen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SafeCitizen-Letter-of-Notice-QCO-et-al-1-9-2026.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Open the full PDF letter<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Safe Citizen has sent a formal Letter of Notice to QCTO. At the centre of it: Qualification 50480, the qualification that governs firearm competency training in South Africa and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.safecitizen.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.safecitizen.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.safecitizen.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.safecitizen.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.safecitizen.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.safecitizen.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1314,"href":"https:\/\/www.safecitizen.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions\/1314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.safecitizen.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.safecitizen.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.safecitizen.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.safecitizen.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}