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Bill: Firearms Protection Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Leviathan Party
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: June 2038
Description[?]:
| Though individuals do have the right to protect themselves from violent offenders through the use of force, the owning of firearms must be intelligently regulated to prevent criminals or irresponsible individuals from possessing such weapons. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Ownership of guns by private individuals.
Old value:: Adult individuals are allowed to own and purchase guns freely.
Current: Adult individuals may own guns under strict license conditions.
Proposed: Adult individuals may own guns under strict license conditions.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | not recorded | From | Labour Party | To | Debating the Firearms Protection Act |
| Message | A reasonable move. |
| Date | not recorded | From | United Socialist Party | To | Debating the Firearms Protection Act |
| Message | I would actually rather see the owning of firearms to be completely illegal, except for profesional purposes. Illegal weapons will always exist but even the slightest increase in tolerence for them will increase the illegal weaponry distribution. |
| Date | not recorded | From | Leviathan Party | To | Debating the Firearms Protection Act |
| Message | In the long term, banning civilians from carrying firearms may be a prudent measure, but in the short term it is better to ease our way into such a position. We can thus assess the efficacy of the new law, and then proceed from there. |
| Date | not recorded | From | Social Republican Party | To | Debating the Firearms Protection Act |
| Message | One problem is, a retroactive lisensing program is a nightmare to create. Another is, hurry and put in licensing, but don't remove any concealed carry laws. |
| Date | not recorded | From | Leviathan Party | To | Debating the Firearms Protection Act |
| Message | A retroactive licensing program would be quite simple to create: simply announce that all gun owners must register their fire arms and apply for licenses. Individuals that fail to do so, do so at their own risk. We don't understand your point re: concealed carry permits. |
| Date | not recorded | From | Radical Centrists | To | Debating the Firearms Protection Act |
| Message | We woud prefer an outright ban, but support this in the meantime. |
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the Firearms Protection Act |
| Message | This seems reasonable. An outright ban would be excessive, as it would concentrate too much power in the hands of the state. |
| Date | not recorded | From | United Socialist Party | To | Debating the Firearms Protection Act |
| Message | We will vote in favor for this bill, we believe it is better than nothing at the moment and we look forward to the day when gun ownership is totally illegal by the normal population. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 89 | ||||||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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