The National Commission on Small Arms and Light Weapons (NACSA) has called for the passage of the long-overdue firearms control law, citing the urgent need to update Ghana's outdated legal framework, which has remained unchanged for over five decades.

According to earlier reports by the Commission, the number of small arms in circulation surged from 240,000 in 2004 to 2.3 million by 2014-the last time a baseline assessment was conducted.

Alarmingly, only about 1.2 million of these weapons were legally acquired or registered.

Dr Adam Adamu Alhassan Bonaa, Acting Executive Secretary of NACSA, has warned that Ghana's current laws governing arms dealership and regulation are obsolete and ill-equipped to address modern threats, including the rise of 3D-printed weapons and online arms transactions.