[DRAFT]National Firearm Safety Act

[Essu Beti]

“A significant proportion of the citizens of Essu Beti rely on hunting,” says Inan. “Whether that be directly for food, or to defend livestock and people from encroaching crocodiles. This resolution would have drastic negative effects on our people. Against.”

[Kenmoria]

"Molon labe"

OOC: Don’t do that; there are much better ways of showing your dissatisfaction with a bill than blantantly noncomplying with it.

Yep there are several clause that allow nation to maintain a right to bear arms. Just takes a bit of creative legislation. However this is entirely academic as this proposal is blatantly illegal.

(OOC: I’m presuming you mean contradiction with GA #399, clause 5. In which case, yes, this stops the proposal in its tracks unless the author can figure out what to do with it. Vichy Rich, I suggest either demonstrating how people with firearms pose an imminent threat of lawlessness, which could be very hard to accomplish, or just dropping this idea entirely.)

[Sierra Lyricalia]

Still illegal.

[Elyreia]

"To the rest, your failure to recognize the possession of firearms is dangerous in the hands of regular civilians, the threats they pose to the government is immense and should be restricted to follow the proposal!"

All Elyreian Citizens are drilled and trained during compulsory military service to learn how to operate a firearm, and all Citizens are reservists in the Elyreian Military.

We do not have "regular citizens" with whom firearm ownership would be dangerous.

We remain vehemently opposed, and I will be more than happy to return in my own military dress uniform if you require further proof of our commitment.

[Masurbia]

5. CLARIFIES that it is not unlawful to provide an individual with a firearm if they are Law Enforcement, Court Enforcement, Border Security, Airport Security, Military & Reserve Personnel, Personal Protection Squadrons, Professional Firearms Studies, Government Employed Security Officers

So what about Port security or Train Station security?

5. CLARIFIES that it is not unlawful to provide an individual with a firearm if they are Law Enforcement, Court Enforcement, Border Security, Airport Security, Military & Reserve Personnel, Personal Protection Squadrons, Professional Firearms Studies, Government Employed Security Officers

What makes law enforcement different from government employed security officers?

[Elyreia]

What makes law enforcement different from government employed security officers?

The Elyreian Princely Guard are not law enforcement, but they may detain and apprehend criminals to the defense of the Princely House. Or perhaps contracted security forces which are privately owned but used by the state in lieu of law enforcement or guards? Maybe embassy contracted security forces?

[Masurbia]

What makes law enforcement different from government employed security officers?

The Elyreian Princely Guard are not law enforcement, but they may detain and apprehend criminals to the defense of the Princely House. Or perhaps contracted security forces which are privately owned but used by the state in lieu of law enforcement or guards? Maybe embassy contracted security forces?

I feel like the clause could just be simplified to "It is not unlawful to provide an individual with a firearm if they are permitted by the government" Then there's not a whole list of who can and who can't obtain a firearm.

[Tinhampton]

Alexander Smith, Tinhamptonian Delegate-Ambassador to the World Assembly: Against. This does nothing to improve the safety of firearms, let alone the safety of bubblewrap salesmen. As Lydia would have reminded you, whackjobs with guns have executed the grand total of one terrorist attack and about ten mass shootings since she passed the Arms Deregulation Act that finally made self-defence a legitimate reason to arm oneself in 1993.

[Hatzisland]

Are you crazy? Outlawing the personal use of firearms? Is that not illegal(and if it is, shouldn't it be)? This is a ridiculous plan, that will be dead on arrival. This isn't something a government trying to promote firearm safety would do, but something a tyrannical government would try to do. Also, keep your Marxist failures in your country. Don't try and impose it on us.

[LiberNovusAmericae]

IC: "Against. Gun ownership in my country is a right; Who are you to try to circumvent our constitution in this manor?" the ambassador grumbles. "Crime in my country, or how we police it is none of your concern. Ban guns in your country if you want, but leave ours alone."

[The American-Rhodesian Coalition]

This resolution is absolutely ludicrous. This will do absolutely nothing to reduce crime because only law abiding citizens obey laws. Criminals don't obey laws.

The right to bear arms and the right to defend yourself and your livelihood is as much a God-given right as freedom of speech or freedom of religion. A proposal like this would simply be the beginning of the unraveling of democracy into totalitarianism. And the people will be powerless to stop it.

[Imperium Anglorum]

"Marginal deterrence doesn't exist" /s