NSG Senate Chamber [NSG Senate]

[Divair]

Judicial Act: Aye
Emergency Anti-Terrorism and Anti-Treason Act: Nay
Senatorial Major Incident Inquest: Aye

I also give a second to the omnibus of 2, 15, 16, and 17. One more is needed there.

Omnibus? Sounds good.

[Regnum Dominae]

Judicial Act: Aye
Emergency Anti-Terrorism and Anti-Treason Act: Nay
Senatorial Major Incident Inquest: Nay

[TaQud]

Judicial Act- AYE
Emergency Anti-Terrorism and Anti-Treason Act- AYE
Senatorial Major Incidental Inquest- AYE

[Belmaria]

Judicial Act: Aye
Emergency Anti-Terrorism and Anti-Treason Act: Nay
Senatorial Major Incident Inquest: Nay

[Yanalia]

CURRENT QUEUE FOR LEGISLATION

1. Judicial Act and Terrorism Investigation Act
2. Rights and Power Restrictions Act
3. Energy and Power Act
4. Governmental Subdivision Act
5. Agricultural Rights Act
6. Governmental Services Act
7. Ministry of Research and Astronomy Reform Act
8. National Culture Act
9. National Financing and Accounting Act
10. Legality and Restrictions Act
11. Senatorial Procedures Act
12. Anti-Corruption Act
13. Membership of the Commonwealth of Nations Act
14. Basic Utilities Privatisation Act
15. Ratification of the Non-Proliferation Treaty

Omnibussing 15 and 13 needs five more and admin approval.

[Yanalia]

I am changing my vote for the Treason act to a nay.

JUDICIAL ACT AND TERRORISM INVESTIGATION ACT
Voting ends 2013/06/05 at 18:27 UTC

Judicial Act
For: 41
Against: 1
Total: 42
Abstain: 0

Emergency Anti-Terrorism and Anti-Treason Act
For: 20
Against: 19
Total: 39
Abstain: 3

Senatorial Major Incident Inquest
For: 34
Against: 7
Total: 41
Abstain: 2

[Kouralia]

I am changing my vote for the Treason act to a nay.

JUDICIAL ACT AND TERRORISM INVESTIGATION ACT
Voting ends 2013/06/05 at 18:27 UTC

Judicial Act
For: 41
Against: 1
Total: 42
Abstain: 0

Emergency Anti-Terrorism and Anti-Treason Act
For: 20
Against: 19
Total: 39
Abstain: 3

Senatorial Major Incident Inquest
For: 34
Against: 7
Total: 41
Abstain: 2

Aye
Nay
Aye

[Byzantium Imperial]

I change my vote on terrorism prevention from aye to abstain

[Hathradic States]

Nay
Nay
Aye

[Polvia]

Submitting the following bill to the queue, as it has garnered over the necessary levels needed to be put on the Senate floor for debate.

Firearms and Bladed Weapons Control Act
Drafted by: Polvia (RG)
Sponsors: Potenco (RG), Phing Phong (RG), Britcan (NSP), Liberated Counties (CFE), Ainin (TR), Reocketvill, Costa Alegria (PC)
Article I – Definition of Terms

(1) The term “firearms” as used in this Act shall mean pistols, rifles, machine-guns, guns,hunting guns, and any other fire-arms charging with gunpowder and air guns that have mechanism of shooting metallic bullets. The term “bladed weapon” as used in this Act shall mean swords, blades, spears and daggers whose blades are more than 15cm.

Article II - Enforcement

(1) The “National Authority on Firearms and Weapons” (referred to as the “National Authority” in this Act) shall be established as a department of the Ministry of the Interior. It shall have a headquarters for each of the provinces of the nation in addition to a National Headquarters that shall be located in the capital settlement of the nation.

(a) The National Authority shall operate through Provincial offices that shall further operate through the law enforcement offices in the respective provinces and constituencies of their jurisdictions.
(b) The National Authority shall be charged with maintaining a registry of all certified stores and individuals who have been granted permission of possession that shall to be used by those certified business institutions that sell firearms or bladed weapons and law enforcement.
(c) The National Authority shall be responsible for the evaluation of applicants for permission of possession for firearms and bladed weapons, and for the processes involved the acquisition and enforcement of the permission of possession.
(d) The National Authority shall not have the power to establish or enact upon warrants, but may submit requests for warrants that are to be executed by the law offices.
(e) The National Authority shall have the ability to organize additional Agency(s) under itself, with the approval of the head of the Ministry of the Interior, to better administer the effective enforcement of weapons regulation or to administer greater efficiency of the licensing processes.
(f) The National Authority shall have the ability to restrict or allow all firearms and bladed weapons that are unlegislated upon in this act or under additional legislation.

Article III – Prohibition

(1) No person shall possess firearms or bladed weapons except for such persons as law enforcement officers, or those who have obtained permission of possession as described in Article IV of this Act. Without permission of possession no person may even hold a firearm or bladed weapon save for times where such action is necessary for that person’s immediate safety.
(2) No person shall import firearms or bladed weapons except when the national or local government or those who have permission import them for law enforcement or military activities or sports.
(3) No person shall assign or loan firearms or blade weapons to others except when both parties have permission of possession for that specific firearm or bladed weapon.
(4) No person shall fire a firearm in a public space or public transport except in cases of self-defense that warrant such force or when law enforcement officers need to fire a firearm to fulfill their duties.
(5) No person shall be granted permission for possession of a handgun of any kind, as being defined as any firearm that can be held and fired with one hand.
(6) No person shall be granted permission for possession of a rifle of any kind, as defined as a gun, especially one fired from shoulder level, having a spirally grooved barrel that causes a bullet to spin.
(7) No person shall be granted permission for possession of a shotgun of the following nature, as defined as a firearm that is usually designed to be fired from the shoulder, which uses the energy of a fixed shell to fire a number of small pellets, or a solid projectile.

(a) With exception to those firearms whose permission of possession has been granted for hunting, no shotgun may have the ability to fire in a semi-automatic or automatic manner, with semi-automatic being defined as able to fire a cartridge after every trigger squeeze, and automatic being defined as able to fire more than one cartridge in a single trigger squeeze.
(b) No firearm of any kind, including shotguns, shall be permitted that has the ability to fire in an automatic manner.
(c) No person shall be granted permission of possession for a shotgun with a barrel length shorter than 61 centimeters.
(d) Shotguns granted by this Act shall be the only form of firearm that any person shall be able to acquire a permission of possession for.
(7) The possession of model handguns and possession of imitation guns for the purpose of sale are allowed only for manufacturers that export products or their vendors which have properly notified the National Authority.
(8) Possession of gun parts shall be prohibited unless owned by a person with permission of possession for the firearm or bladed weapon for which the parts are for, and whom has notified the National Authority.
(9) Concealed firearms and the structural parts of firearms or functions of the same which do not meet legal standards shall not be permitted.
(10) No person shall be permitted a license for a concealed bladed weapon or firearm.
(11) Firearms and bladed weapons falling under artwork are required to be registered and approved with the National Authority.
(12) No person may acquire the permission of possession for any military-grade weapons. Including, but not limited to;

(a) Artillery of any type being defined as any large-caliber weapons, such as cannon, howitzers, missile launchers, etc.
(b) Any form of lethal explosive, as being defined as any substance, especially a prepared chemical, that explodes or causes explosion, or any device which is designed for the purpose of producing a lethal explosion or explosive.
(c) Any armoured vehicle, as being defined as any vehicle protected by strong armour, armed with weapons, or any combination of the aforementioned.
(d) Any rocket, torpedo or missile, as well as any weapon which fires them.

(i) Rocket shall be defined as any projectile weapon carrying a warhead that is powered and propelled by rockets.
(ii) Torpedo shall be defined as any self-propelled underwater projectile designed to detonate when it comes in contact with, or is in the general vicinity of, a target.
(iii) Missile shall be defined as any powered, guided munitions that travels through the air or space.
(13) No person may purchase ammunition for a firearm of any type without first obtaining a permission of possession for the firearm that the person in question is purchasing ammunition for, nor may any person purchase ammunition for a weapon they do not have ownership of.

Article IV – Permission of Possession

(1) Any person shall obtain permission of possession for each invidual firearm from the National Authority in their possession. Permission shall be granted only to a person who has need of a firearm or for hunting, sports, butchery, drama, eradication of noxious birds or animals, exhibition, etc.
(2) Permission of possession of bladed weapons are issued for individual bladed weapons for specific applications such as hunting, eradication of noxious birds and animals, slaughter of animals, fishing or construction, cases where possession is unavoidable for plays or other artistic performances and cases where such items are used for display in museums, etc.
(3) Those persons who are under the age of eighteen (18), mentally disabled persons, persons under the influence of illegal substances, drugs or narcotics, persons without a permanent residence, etc. shall be barred from being granted permission of possession.
(4) Any persons seeking permission of possession for any firearm or bladed weapon or firearms and bladed weapons must submit to the following procedure.

(a) Provide adequate evidence of need for a firearm or bladed weapon such as hunting, sport, etc. at the discretion of the National Authority.
(b) Attend a class, which is to be supplied by the National Authority at all law enforcement offices no less than once a month, covering the maintenance and inspection of the firearm or bladed weapons, methods of loading and unloading cartridges, shooting from various positions and target practice for stationary and moving objects. The person shall be required to pass a written test on the class.
(c) Attend a shooting range class, which is to be supplied by the National Authority at all law enforcement offices no less than once a month, and exhibit adequate shooting ability in a shooting test thereafter.
(d) Supply adequate evidence, from a health institute recognized by the National Authority, as to prove that the person is not suffering from a readily detectable mental illness and attain a mental certificate that attests that the person is mentally healthy and not addicted to any illegal substance, drug or narcotic from a health institute recognized by the National Authority.
(e) Submit to a background check, to be accomplished by the National Authority, which shall investigate the criminal history of the applicant and said applicant’s immediate relatives. The applicant and their immediate relatives must be found to be without criminal history, with exception to traffic law violations, to pass the background check.
(f) Be able to present a legally valid form of identification.
(g) Provide a layout of the applicant’s permanent residence to the National Authority and on that layout display where the storages of the firearm and ammunition shall be in the residence. Firearms, bladed weapons and ammunition must be kept in separate containers, and the containers must be inspected and deemed adequate by National Authority standards.
(5) The permission of possession must be renewed by this procedure every third year.
(6) The registration of firearms is available for old-fashioned guns such as matchlock type firearms which are valuable works of art or antiques, and for bladed weapons which are valuable as works of art.
(7) The reasons for disqualification of ownership for bladed weapons are substantially the same as that of firearms.
(8) In addition to possession through the above licenses or registration, certain firearms may be owned by manufacturers of weapons, vendors of hunting guns, vendors of whaling harpoon guns, etc. which have been who are licensed and certified by the National Authority to own such weapons.

Article V – Discretion of Permission of Possession

(1) The National authority shall have the unlimited discretion to deny licenses to any person whom there is reasonable cause to suspect may be dangerous to other persons’ lives or properties or to the public peace.

(a) The person in question may appeal the decision of the National Authority to the courts.
(2) The membership in aggressive political or activist groups, or likewise such a group that promotes violent behavior, shall be adequate to disqualify an applicant from permission of possession.
(3) The law enforcement may search any individual that is under suspicion of having a firearm or bladed weapon on their person at any time, and may require any owner of a firearm or bladed weapon for their proof of permission of ownership for said firearm(s) or bladed weapon(s).

(a) A person may only be searched on their person. All other searches for firearms or bladed weapons must be done under a warrant.

Article VI – Requirements of Firearm or Bladed Weapon Owners

(1) Those persons who use firearms or bladed weapons for such purposes as hunting must have their proof of permission of possession, for the weapon(s) in their possession at all times when hunting.
(2) Those persons who have obtained a permission of possession for any firearm or bladed weapon, or such items as defined in Article IV Section 6 of this Act, are required to keep any weapons in their possession in their permanent residence at all times, keep said objects in their approved storage containers at all times and be readily able to supply proof of permission of possession at any time.
(3) Those persons who use a firearm or bladed weapon for the purposes of drama, exhibition, sport, slaughtering of animals or likewise job required purposes may only have that firearm or bladed weapon on their person in their officially designated areas of work, sport, profession or display, at all other times these owners are to be subject to the same regulation as Article VI Section 2 of this Act.

Article VII – Punishment for Violations

(1) Any person found in possession of a firearm or bladed weapon without permission of possession shall be subject to a fine of no less than €10,000 and no higher than €50,000 and shall be subject to a minimum sentence of one year and a maximum sentence of ten years in a National prison, or equivalent.
(2) Any person who is found to have fired a firearm in a public space will be charged with a fine of no less than €75,000 and no higher than €150,000 and shall be subject to a minimum sentence of five years and a maximum sentence of fifteen years in a National prison, or equivalent.

Article VIII – The Use of Euros

(1) The use of Euros (€) in this Act is for the purposes of designating value to all mentioned monetary variables. The actual fines shall, unless legislated otherwise, be done in transactions with national currency, or equivalent, to the full equivalent value of the fines.
(2) The set fines, unless legislated otherwise, shall be automatically adjusted to all Euro (€) inflation.

[Unicario]

How about no?

[Regnum Dominae]

How about no?

^

[Yanalia]

CURRENT QUEUE FOR LEGISLATION

1. Judicial Act and Terrorism Investigation Act
2. Rights and Power Restrictions Act
3. Energy and Power Act
4. Governmental Subdivision Act
5. Agricultural Rights Act
6. Governmental Services Act
7. Ministry of Research and Astronomy Reform Act
8. National Culture Act
9. National Financing and Accounting Act
10. Legality and Restrictions Act
11. Senatorial Procedures Act
12. Anti-Corruption Act
13. Membership of the Commonwealth of Nations Act
14. Basic Utilities Privatisation Act
15. Ratification of the Non-Proliferation Treaty
16. Firearms and Bladed Weapons Control Act

[Yanalia]

I move to omnibus 16 into 10, since we've already got one firearms act in it.

[Unicario]

I move to omnibus 16 into 10, since we've already got one firearms act in it.

Opposed.

[Byzantium Imperial]

I move to omnibus 16 into 10, since we've already got one firearms act in it.

Opposed.

Also opposed

[Yanalia]

I move to omnibus 16 into 10, since we've already got one firearms act in it.

Opposed.

Why? I also do not approve of the act and will vote against it. This is just to make the queue slimmer.

[Unicario]

Opposed.

Why? I also do not approve of the act and will vote against it. This is just to make the queue slimmer.

Because this thing has a higher chance of passing if it's stuck in an omnibus -- Nobody will read it.

[Maklohi Vai]

I move to omnibus 16 into 10, since we've already got one firearms act in it.

Seconded, and admin approval granted. A reminder that opposing this motion actually has no legal or administrative effect whatsoever in terms of whether or not the omnibus succeeds.

[Byzantium Imperial]

I move to omnibus 16 into 10, since we've already got one firearms act in it.

Seconded, and admin approval granted. A reminder that opposing this motion actually has no legal or administrative effect whatsoever in terms of whether or not the omnibus succeeds.

I thought it made it so you would have to get X more seconds?

[Yanalia]

Why? I also do not approve of the act and will vote against it. This is just to make the queue slimmer.

Because this thing has a higher chance of passing if it's stuck in an omnibus -- Nobody will read it.

Might I remind you that the Firearms Act was in an omnibus?

[Bering]

Judicial Act: Aye
Emergency Anti-Terrorism and Anti-Treason Act: Aye
Senatorial Major Incident Inquest: Aye

[Maklohi Vai]

Seconded, and admin approval granted. A reminder that opposing this motion actually has no legal or administrative effect whatsoever in terms of whether or not the omnibus succeeds.

I thought it made it so you would have to get X more seconds?

There is no such rule and no such proper precedent.

[Byzantium Imperial]

I thought it made it so you would have to get X more seconds?

There is no such rule and no such proper precedent.

My mistake then

[Living Freedom Land]

Judicial Act: Nay
Emergency Anti-Terrorism and Anti-Treason Act: Nay
Senatorial Major Incident Inquest: Nay