The family of South African athlete Oscar Pistorius, who is charged with murder, has distanced itself from his father's comments that guns are needed because of high crime levels.
Henke Pistorius told the UK's Telegraph newspaper that his son needed guns because of the government's failure to protect white people.
Oscar Pistorius has been charged with murdering his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, last month.
He says he mistook her for a burglar.
Ms Steenkamp died after he fired multiple shots into the toilet of his top floor apartment in a gated housing complex in Pretoria.
The Pistorius family owned 55 guns, the local Beeld newspaper reports.
End Quote Family statementThe comments doesn't [sic] represent the views of Oscar or the rest of the Pistorius family"
"Some of the guns are for hunting and some are for protection, the hand guns. It speaks to the ANC government, look at white crime levels [sic], why protection is so poor in this country, it's an aspect of our society," it quotes Henke Pistorius as saying.
The family was "deeply concerned" about his comments, the family's publicist said in a statement, AFP news agency reports.
Family spokesman Arnold Pistorius said "the Pistorius family own weapons purely for sport and hunting purposes", it reports.
"The comments doesn't [sic] represent the views of Oscar or the rest of the Pistorius family," he is quoted as saying.
Critics say the government has not done enough to tackle a surge in violent crime since white minority rule ended in South Africa in 1994.
However, the government says crime levels have fallen in recent years.
BBC South African analyst Farouk Chothia says many white people led a sheltered life during apartheid, when a highly militarised police force carried out regular patrols in their areas and kept crime rates low.
After apartheid ended, the government moved some policing resources from mainly white to mainly black areas, causing some white people to feel more vulnerable to crime, our correspondent says.
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