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| India Had One Of The Strictest Gun |
| India Had One Of The Strictest Gun Laws In The World. It Just Got Tighter
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| INDIA
, 1-August-2016
20:38:32 PM |
| As mass shooting incidents in the United States rise, India has tightened its firearms regulations, making it even more difficult for common citizens to own a gun.
India already had one of the strictest gun laws in the world, a vestige of British colonial rule, which aimed to disarm its subjects. India law allows citizens to own and carry guns, but it is not a right enshrined in the constitution. Getting a gun license in India is a difficult task that can take years.
Now, in the most ambitious restructuring of arms rules in over five decades, the government has made the laws even tougher. Under the new rules, prospective gun owners will have to show they have been trained, only carry firearms in holders and secure them in a "knocked down" condition in gun lockers at home. The government will declare new gun-free zones, in addition to schools, across the country. Even air guns will require an arms license.
The new gun restrictions are not a reaction to recent violence. The process has taken five years, but it quickened after Prime Minister Narendra Modi was elected in 2014. The rules were put into effect in July and will be presented in Parliament.
An official in the ministry of home affairs, speaking on the condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the media, said the changes aim "to bring in transparency in the arms control regime, prevent, combat and eradicate illicit trade in small arms and light weapons . . . and bring in the contemporary practices in international laws."
The changes have riled the nascent gun rights group here called the National Association for Gun Rights India.
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