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legal possibility for arms import?

Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 11:34 pm
by striker
Dear Moderators and Friends

Indian Arms law admits civilians to have np bore arms for the personal safety and shooting sports ,due to lack of standard & reliable arms by iof and import restriction shooters are in dark room with a candle light .
Is there is any legal way/procedures to file case in supreme court to release the exim policy restriction for np bore arms passed by finance home . moreever we have right to keeps np bore arms for personal safety and shooting sports .
Can ifg join hands to solve the exim policy ?

Cheers
Striker

Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 11:57 pm
by nagarifle
hi Striker

i am intersted and count me in,

all i know is that every layer say ur case is a good one and u should win. layers are needed for this but one has to know a good one.

in delhi supreme court lawyer would cost as much as 1lac.

Re: legal possibility for arms import?

Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 12:22 am
by saahil
count me too. ready for any kind of contribution.im just a call away.

Re: legal possibility for arms import?

Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 9:43 am
by HydNawab
Im in too.Willing to contribute for this cause.

Ashar

Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 11:49 am
by casual shooter
in my earlier posts the decesioj to ban are executive instructions not having any test of legislation so they can be challenged in court,
someone pointed out in the previos post that no test of legislation is required as the parliament passes the budget which in turn quotes the restrictions.
but this is an order of the home department , the finance ministry has nothing to do about it if permitted by home ministry the finance ministry charges some custom duty on the guns imported by the sports person !,
i suggest we hire a good lawyer and take his opinion
no where in my knowledge have i read that so and so act of parliamnet prohibits import of arms for personal use !

Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 12:34 pm
by nagarifle
Hi casual shooter
casual shooter";p="46162 wrote:
no where in my knowledge have i read that so and so act of parliament prohibits import of arms for personal use !
if i am not wrong its seems to be common knowledge that since 1986 arms import are banned unless u have import licence, which is hard and impossible to get unless u are top 25 shooters.

so in reality i just can not import arms.

now what it looks like to me is that there is not one ministry, one would have to tackle but two or three. the finance ministry, home ministry, imports etc, if one does not allow then it would not matte what the other ministry allow would i be right in these?

Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 3:12 pm
by striker
Friends
is thers is any professional layers in ifg to guide where to put the dot and pull the line in solving the ban .ie procedure how to proceed .

thanks
striker.

Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 8:58 pm
by diskaon
I want to know one thing.. is it "practically impossible" to import or "impossible" to import.

other than being a renowned shot or through TR... can I apply for an import license and be rejected? or I cant even apply for one?

Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 10:11 pm
by Mack The Knife
diskaon";p="46186 wrote:other than being a renowned shot or through TR... can I apply for an import license and be rejected? or I cant even apply for one?
You can always apply for one but your chances of walking on the moon would be far greater than getting an import permit.

Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 10:43 pm
by b.baracho
tried that 2 year ago to answer till date from center.

Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 9:42 pm
by striker
Dudes
One of my friend is professional lawer and he is willing to take this 1986 arms ban issue in state highcourt .
He is asking for the copy of the 1986 arms import ban act details for further move.
i couldnt able to find in net but if any ifg members could help me ?


cheers
sankar

Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 12:14 am
by striker
Friend and addicts
where can i get gazette papers of 1986 arm import ban?

cheers

Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 12:50 am
by mundaire
striker";p="47729 wrote: Friend and addicts
where can i get gazette papers of 1986 arm import ban?

cheers
AFAIK there is no notification as such, neither is there any act of parliament covering this. As has been stated before it was done by simply placing arms & ammuntion on the negative import list in the EXIM (export & import) policy which is a part of the union budget tabled before the parliament every year.

So (in theory) imports can be reopened if the government simply removes these items from the negative list, as has been done in the case of .177 cal airguns.

Cheers!
Abhijeet

Challenging the Arms Import Ban

Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 7:58 pm
by orieng
Has anybody ever challenged the Arms Import Ban ? If yes with what result? If no, will the fellow IFG members consider taking some action on this?

Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 1:03 am
by eternalme
Please we would love to see this anarchy coming to an end, we could protest that the domestic gun market is way to high and in order to protect the rights of the buyer the government has to allow import of firearms.

Also the ban on import of firearms also violated / hinders the right to carry and procure a gun, the ban is causing many people not to even consider buying a gun because of the high prevalent rates.