High-ranking police and government leaders meet in Nigeria to discuss policing. Photo courtesy of the Presidency. The Fulani extremists who attack Christian villages often arrive in groups of more than 100 men, armed with AK-47s, riding motorcycles in pre-dawn raids on farming communities. Gun ownership in Nigeria is restricted under the Firearms Act, which requires presidential or Inspector-General licensing for any firearm and limits civilians to shotguns; a 2019 executive order revoked remaining private licenses. Many Christian villages are entirely unarmed. Others are defended by hunters carrying homemade, single-shot muzzle-loaders, enough, villagers say, to buy time for families to flee, not to stop an assault. When communities have fought back, police have at times confiscated even those weapons. Through legislative pressure, Nigerian Christians are now…
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