{"id":4006,"date":"2017-07-10T17:00:28","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T11:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=4006"},"modified":"2017-07-30T17:00:32","modified_gmt":"2017-07-30T11:30:32","slug":"arms-only-self-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/arms-only-self-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Arms only for self-defense, Delhi HC on gun license plea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Context <\/strong> <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva <strong>rejected<\/strong> a private company official\u2019s plea for an arms license, a request which was denied to him by the licensing authority of the police as well as Lieutenant-Governor Anil Baijal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <strong>Reasons behind decline <\/strong> <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>According to <strong>Delhi High Court<\/strong>, no one has a fundamental right to possess a weapon.<\/li>\n<li>The judge made comments about how possessing weapons is more about showing off and status symbol than self-defense.<\/li>\n<li>The judge held the society to not a lawless one that individuals would need to acquire arms to protect themselves.<\/li>\n<li>The object of the <strong>Arms Act<\/strong> is to ensure that weapons are available to citizens for self-defense,<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Context Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva rejected a private company official\u2019s plea for an arms license, a request which was denied to him by the licensing authority of the police as well as Lieutenant-Governor Anil Baijal. Reasons behind decline According to Delhi High Court, no one has a fundamental right to possess a weapon. The judge made&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/arms-only-self-defense\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Arms only for self-defense, Delhi HC on gun license plea<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":4046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-social","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/law.jpg?fit=1000%2C500&ssl=1","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704914839},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}