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Bill: Private Firearms Limitation Proposal
Details
Submitted by[?]: We Say So! Party
Status[?]: defeated
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: October 2135
Description[?]:
| The ownership of all Private firearms within the Republic will be banned in order to safeguard the security of all members of the public, and to reduce the availability of firearms to criminal elements. The Armed Forces and Police are exempt from the above laws, however members of aforementioned services are not allowed to bring said firearms to their place of residence within the borders of the Republic. All such firearms required for the operation of those services will be kept under tight security within the confines of aforementioned barracks or stations and may only be removed when required for either training purposes or for direct use for the means in which they are designed. Privately operated security firms are covered by this law as those firearms are deemed to be owned on a Private, individual basis and as such are not entitled to handle firearms. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Ownership of guns by private individuals.
Old value:: Adult individuals may not own firearms unless professionally required.
Current: Individuals are allowed to own firearms as long as they do not have a history of dangerous mental illness or a violent criminality.
Proposed: Individuals are not permitted to own firearms under any circumstances.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 19:43:44, November 02, 2005 CET | From |   Liberal-Progressive Union | To | Debating the Private Firearms Limitation Proposal |
| Message | I think this is unecessary. Current law is enough to prevent most firearm ownership,no new law is needed. |
| Date | 21:19:14, November 02, 2005 CET | From | National Imperial Hobrazian Front | To | Debating the Private Firearms Limitation Proposal |
| Message | We agree with the L-PU on this one. The laws just unnecissary. |
| Date | 21:59:14, November 02, 2005 CET | From | United Blobs | To | Debating the Private Firearms Limitation Proposal |
| Message | We can accept this bill. There is no reason for people to own guns except for the police (in specially trained squads) and the military (no comment). |
| Date | 22:08:33, November 02, 2005 CET | From | We Say So! Party | To | Debating the Private Firearms Limitation Proposal |
| Message | Firearms in private hands are already illegal, all this law does is guarantee that they can't be taken home from work. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 110 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 227 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 63 |
| Random fact: "Game mechanics comes first." For example, if a currently-enforced bill sets out one law, then a player cannot claim the government has set out a contradictory law. |
| Random quote: "Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country." - Maximilien Robespierre |