There are essentially three types of licensed weapons owners in India, based on my observations over the years. The oldest continually owned guns are those that have been in the family for generations, licences and ownership passed down as heirlooms. In fact, the number of licensed firearms crimes in India is so few that a zero and a dot precede the single numeral. There are more voyeurism incidents in the national crime data bank than licensed firearms-related ones.Īlso read: MPs oppose amendment that limits gun licences to just one, cite security & royal past India is not going to be safer by reducing licensed ownership of firearms. Two ghastly crimes took place this week in two different Indian states – a veterinarian who was raped and killed and a six-year-old schoolgirl raped and strangled with her belt. Neither of these, or the thousands of horrendous crimes in India, have taken place using licensed firearms. The ostensible reason for further restricting firearms is reducing crime, and some woolly-headed supporters even say it will help curtail suicide rates. While the latter essentially killed agricultural incomes for the foreseeable future, besides stultifying the real estate industry, the new Arms Act amendments are likely to produce results contrary to the objectives they are setting out to achieve. With sincere apologies to Lepus Nigricollis, the amendments to the Arms Act are as hare-brained an idea as Modi government’s demonetisation in 2016. Anyone who has seen a police safe house for weapons will know how safe the arms will be, in a slowly junking state. The 2019 amendments seek to bring that number down to a single weapon, after which, an Indian citizen has a year to dispose off or place the extra arms in safe custody. The current limit of three was introduced in 1983 via amendments to Section 3 of the Arms Act 1959 that had placed no limits on the number of weapons that could be owned. The Narendra Modi government is planning to amend the 1959 Arms Act, which will further restrict the number of weapons an Indian can own on a valid license.
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