User:Knoodelhed/Incubator/(Draft) Firearms Act

Definitions

 * Firearm - a device capable of expelling a projectile due to a chemical reaction or gaseous discharge, in such a manner as the flight of such projectile may harm or kill an animal or a human being
 * Ammunition - any combination of chemicals and solid objects capable of producing a projectile expulsion and flight
 * License - any written correspondence from the King or one of his authorized employees, to one of his subjects named thereon, allowing the existence or occurrence, and specifying the restrictions upon, a named object, activity, or condition, for a stated period
 * Armed hunting - Taking for food or trophy by firearm any game animal, including similar action taken by a farmer against agricultural pests
 * Police - for the purposes of this act, any of the following:
 * the King
 * sworn officers of the Federal Police
 * sworn rangers employed by the National Park Service


 * Private security detail - paid employees of a commercial business that provides detective, bodyguard, internal guard, alarm-runner, doorcheck, and/or cash-movement service on contract to paying clients, or paid employees of any other commercial business whose work duties include providing such service to that business

Provisions

 * 1) Ownership or carriage of firearms by persons other than the police shall only be according to license.
 * 2) Licenses for firearms may be issued only to persons of good mental health and sound moral character.
 * 3) A restricted license may be issued for the purpose of armed hunting during daylight hours and requiring a bright red vest and hat while engaged therein.
 * 4) A restricted license may be issued to members of a private security detail specifying that firearms are to be based at the employer's business office when the guard is not working.
 * 5) Armed hunting is allowed on private property of sufficient area to contain any hazard to neighbours posed thereby.

Enforcement
The Federal Police shall make such administrative regulations as are necessary to optimize their enforcement of the provisions of this law.

Penalty
Upon a plea or verdict of guilty to a charge of contravening any of the provisions, the punishment shall be incarceration, or other such sanction as the court of law may direct.