{"id":89359,"date":"2019-12-11T17:14:51","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T11:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=12303"},"modified":"2019-12-11T17:14:51","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T11:44:51","slug":"parliament-passes-the-arms-amendment-bill-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/parliament-passes-the-arms-amendment-bill-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Parliament passes the Arms (Amendment) Bill, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> Parliament passed the Arms (Amendment) Bill, 2019 which seeks to amend the Arms Act, 1959.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key provisions of Arms (Amendment) Bill, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>License for acquiring firearms:<\/strong><ul><li>The Bill reduces the number of permitted firearms from three to one.<\/li><li>It also increases the duration of the validity of a firearm license from three years to five years<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>Ban on unlicensed firearms<\/strong>: The bill prohibits obtaining or procuring un-licensed firearms, and the conversion of one category of firearms to another without a license.<\/li><li><strong>Increase in punishment:<\/strong> It provides for enhanced punishment for illegally possessing and making prohibited arms.<\/li><li><strong>New offences added:<\/strong> The bill adds two new offences:<ul><li>Forcefully taking a firearm from police or armed forces<\/li><li>Using firearms in celebratory gunfire which endangers human life<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>Tracking of firearms: <\/strong>The bill<strong> <\/strong>states that the<strong> <\/strong>central government may make rules to track firearms and ammunition from manufacturer to purchaser<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Parliament passed the Arms (Amendment) Bill, 2019 which seeks to amend the Arms Act, 1959. Facts: Key provisions of Arms (Amendment) Bill, 2019 License for acquiring firearms: The Bill reduces the number of permitted firearms from three to one. It also increases the duration of the validity of a firearm license from three years&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/parliament-passes-the-arms-amendment-bill-2019\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Parliament passes the Arms (Amendment) Bill, 2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1760],"tags":[6805],"class_list":["post-89359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polity-and-nation","tag-arms-bill","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704788180},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89359","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=89359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}