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Bill: Armed Citizen Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Dorvish Popular Front
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: August 2036
Description[?]:
| Citizens have a right to protect themselves and their country from attack. Having licenses places citizens in danger of foreign armies tracking down all gun owners, or an oppresive govt tracking them down. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Ownership of guns by private individuals.
Old value:: Adult individuals may own guns under strict license conditions.
Current: Adult individuals may own guns under strict license conditions.
Proposed: Adult individuals are allowed to own and purchase guns freely.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the Armed Citizen Act |
| Message | Having no licenses may place undue stress on forensics experts in the event of crimes. Even Switzerland has some gun regulations. |
| Date | not recorded | From |  Dorvik Social Democrats | To | Debating the Armed Citizen Act |
| Message | We urge everyone to vote nay. |
| Date | not recorded | From | Dorvish Popular Front | To | Debating the Armed Citizen Act |
| Message | The DLP supports having weapons to resist oppresive regimes. Obviously, if the regime has the license info, they can track down the gun-owners and stop the resistance. |
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the Armed Citizen Act |
| Message | And if there's no way to match bullets to guns, then how the **** are we supposed to solve crimes? |
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the Armed Citizen Act |
| Message | Tell you what, I'll agree to this assuming there is a restriction in the near future that improves gun forensics. |
| Date | not recorded | From | Dorvish Popular Front | To | Debating the Armed Citizen Act |
| Message | Well if guns were illegal would it be possible to trace them? There are other ways to solve crimes for instance DNA, fingerprints, witnesses etc. |
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the Armed Citizen Act |
| Message | If someone gets shot from 20 feet away, there's not going to be any fingerprints or DNA. |
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the Armed Citizen Act |
| Message | But whatever. I will vote for this; hopefully the gun forensics bill will pass as well. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 52 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 9 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 10 |
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