Indians For Guns

No Guns for those under 30
Peeyush Khandelwal, Hindustan Times
Ghaziabad, March 19, 2010

The legal age to procure an arms licence is 21 years and above. But if you happen to be a resident of Ghaziabad and Gautam Budh Nagar districts, you will have to wait till you turn 30.
This move is to curb misuse of arms licence, as authorities said 90 per cent enquiries and applications for a licence are from youngsters who have no valid reasons to own arms.
Gautam Budh Nagar District Magistrate (DM) Deepak Aggarwal said: “During our survey, it was found that around 90 per cent youngsters want to get an arms licence without any valid reason. So we have made a district-level decision to curb the use of arms by youngsters in the age group of 21 to 30 years.”
Both the districts have around 31,000 arms licences, which include prohibited bores like single/double barrel guns, revolvers and pistols.
“The decision is welcome for the safety and security of other residents but the administration should also curb the inflow of illegal arms which are frequently used in crime,” said retired Naval Commodore Lokesh Batra, who is a Noida resident.
Ghaziabad City Magistrate Umesh Mishra said a person with 30 years or above is considered mature enough to handle guns.

Both the districts have around 31,000 arms licences, which include prohibited bores like single/double barrel guns, revolvers and pistols.

Good profiling is the key to fair and just arms licensing. The candidate must be profiled in terms of conduct and associations that he keeps.

Its really hilarious that Government does not trust same people whom it finds perfectly OK when it comes to nominate elected representatives except when it comes to granting of arm license.

On an average 10 arms license forms are submitted daily in Allahabad. The percentage of new arms license issued since past 3 years is 1%. Our Chief Minister Behen Mayawati is against issuing of arms license and there is a rumor that she has instructed all the district magistrates to not issue an arms license(please try to understand the real motive). Only death case license is granted in Allahabad, that too after all the harassment & formalities(practically means every effort to extort bribes is made) done like a new license.

When a new arms license form is submitted in Allahabad, one has to pay Rs 1050, 500 for Allahabad Rifle Club (which dose not exists), 500 Rs for encouragement of Sports (God knows what is this), & Rs 50 for a sticker of some monogram on it. When all these formalities is completed then you have to stand on the arms clerk's window and keep on calling him "bare babu.. O bare babu" Then he will look at you with his mouth full of paan or gukta and will talk to you with his eyes, you will submit your file with bribe to him, without bribe your file will not be accepted. When the file is accepted then you have to run from pillar to post to get your police report done, there also you have to bribe on each and every stage. When all the reports have been in your favor and your file reaches at DM's office then you have to find some source through some bribe taking netas (politician) to get your license done.

District Magistrate doesn't even bother to talk to aspiring arms license holders. Our policy makers are a piece of shit, due to their policies we are suffering and corruption is on its peak.

Why we Indians are still treated like slaves ? Why we have the old arms act which was made by Britishers for Indians before independence ? Government should abolish the existing arms act and should give us right to keep and bear arms. We don't want to get treated as we used to get treated before independence.