{"id":6651,"date":"2023-03-18T09:36:42","date_gmt":"2023-03-18T04:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=6651"},"modified":"2025-03-27T16:09:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T10:39:54","slug":"gun-licences-cancelled-to-clamp-down-on-gun-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/gun-licences-cancelled-to-clamp-down-on-gun-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Gun licences cancelled to clamp down on Gun culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>In 2022, the Punjab government ordered a complete ban on the public display of weapons and songs glorifying violence.<\/li>\n<li>The order also called for a review of all licenses issued within 3 months and barred the issuance of new licenses for the next 3 months, except in extraordinary circumstances.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What are the acts related to arms in India?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Indian Arms Act of 1959 <\/strong>was passed after India attained independence.<\/li>\n<li>It scrapped the erstwhile Act of 1878, passed by the British that restricted Indians from possessing firearms.<\/li>\n<li>The act was amended in 2019 decreasing the number of licensed firearms allowed per person.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Conditions under the act<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>No one can acquire, possess or carry any firearms in India without a license.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Act bars<\/strong> one person from carrying <strong>more than one firearm<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It prevents persons of unsound mind or those out on bond from getting such a license.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Validity:<\/strong> The validity of a firearm license was <strong>increased from 3 years to 5 years (2019 amendment).<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What are the types of Licenses?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Non- prohibited bore (NPB):<\/strong> Indian citizens aged 21 years and above are eligible to get Non-Prohibited Bore (NPB) guns and these are <strong>issued by the state governments.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Prohibited bore (PB):<\/strong> Prohibited Bore guns can only be issued to defence personnel or persons facing imminent threats to life and these are issued by <strong>the Central Government or Ministry of Home Affairs.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0Who introduced the Arms Act of 1878?<\/h3>\n<p>The Arms Act of 1878 was introduced by Viceroy Lord Lytton and was discriminatory in nature as it allowed only Europeans to possess firearms without licence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-law\/punjab-cancels-813-gun-licenses-indian-laws-arms-possession-8495724\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Punjab govt cancels 813 gun licenses in the state: Who can possess firearms under the Indian Arms Act?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Punjab government ordered a complete ban on the public display of weapons &#038; songs glorifying violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6652,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}