Owning Prohibited Weapons.

[suraj2087]

Dear Friends,

Check these links

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/indi ... 102767.cms

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/indi ... 102772.cms

Regards

Suraj.

[essdee1972]

Quoting "...include people who live in areas where terrorists are active and face a "grave and imminent threat to their lives", government officials who, due to the nature of their job, have made themselves targets in the eyes of terrorists, MPs/MLAs, private citizens and family members of people who have been associated with anti-terrorist programmes."

Very funny statement. Terrorists are active in Mumbai & Delhi also, does that mean everyone (private citizens) in these cities will be considered for PB license? After so many years of denying them even NPB licenses? What does "imminent" threat mean? A chap chased by a terrorist will run to the head cop and ask for a license?

Same list of suspects - sarkari babus (due to the nature of their job ), their relatives (any cop can say he was associated with anti-terrorist programmes, hence his father-in-law's fifth cousin needs a gun), and our great politicos (who, inspite of spending huge amounts of our taxes on security guards, still need personal guns for protection - an ironic comment on the quality of the security guards??)....

The second article is typical journalism - print sensational headlines, some half-baked facts...voila! Why is there no attempt to link private gun ownership with rates of violent crime? because it would have proved guns in hands of civvies is a good thing? And comparing US and Yemen? errr... yeh baat kuchh hazam nahin hui...

Chicken and egg problem - has the ToI gone crazy first or the government???

[mundaire]

It is NOTHING but the very same MHA Arms Policy/ Executive order which we have been fighting against since the begining of this year.

They have merely "presented" it to the court wording it so that it seems that what they are doing will actually make things better for "ordinary citizens" - unfortunately many will actually believe it!

[Anand]

Just saw the article this morning in Times of India, as Abhijeet said, its the same stuff! Only the wording has been made to look like its common man friendly . The way it is worded will have most people believe that in fact, a whole lot of new people have become "eligible" for PB firearms! This is simply not true.
Anand

[captrakshitsharma]

A huge pile of BS.... probably MHA's well thought out plan to divert attention... I am halfway through a reply to the editor regarding the same.

[andy_65_in]

Its holy crap- i do come across people struggling to get even one arm licence then how come this move.just BAKWAS

[thomast1]

Babu-speak, its time the word enters all dictionary in the world. MHA would be hiring seasoned Babus for these i guess. If the right info has to be publicised then its going to take good efforts! nothing short of the NRA model..

Thomas