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Passes Gun Control Law
Guatemala - After several months of debate,
the Guatemalan Congress approved the Weapon
and Ammunition Control Law, considered
essential to reduce violence.
The regulation reduces to one the four
licenses previously granted to each citizen
to buy armaments, and they are able now to
buy three weapons instead of 12, as
previously established.
It also stipulated several requirements
before granting the permit, including a
clean criminal record and passing
psychological assessment, income
certification and proof of employment.
The legislation also set between five and 15
years of imprisonment for crimes like
possession, export, import, or illegal sale
of weapons and ammunitions.
Shooting without a justified reason and
parading with these devices, although they
are legal, will also be punished.
Congressional Government Commission Chair
Santiago Najera considered the law
progressive and a tool that will allow to
the judicial system to work correctly.
The regulation will now be presented to the
Executive, which should ratify it and make
it come into force.
Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom welcomed
the approval of the law and called it an
important instrument to fulfill the National
Security Program, which will be signed by
the three state powers on April 15. |
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