Lexicon:Firearms Registration Act

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Everyone in Malton knew about his bill, at least somewhere on the fringes of their attention, but I imagine it wasn't much cared about outside city limits. Some text from the city legislature's minutes...

RESOLVED, this 24th of November, this motion being passed forty-one votes to six, three abstentions, in the 36th session of the Malton City Council, year of Our Lord two thousand and two, in the city of Malton:

1. A BAN to be placed on the private possession, private usage, sale, private transport, private carriage both concealed and visible, private export, and private import of the following classes of FIREARMS, this ban to be enforced on the first of May, two thousand and three, and these crimes to be punishable by up to one year in a correctional institution per offense or a fine of up to 10,000 pounds per offense. Banned firearms are
   1. Those using a solid metal projectile and either having calibers exceeding thirty-nine hundreds of one inch or ten millimeters, or containing greater than six loaded projectiles simultaneously, or capable of automatic fire, and
   2. Those using multiple simultaneous projectiles and having calibers exceeding seven hundred and thirty thousands of one inch or eighteen and one-half millimeters, or containing greater than two loaded projectiles simultaneously, or capable of automatic fire.
2. All such weapons presently existing within the city to be sold or moved outside city limits previous to the 1st March, two thousand and three, and any thereafter remaining to be confiscated by the city police force and made property of that body, to be disposed of as they see fit.

Which basically boils down to nothing with more punch than a .385 revolver or a double-barrel 12-gauge. And that was the point of it, a gun ban; the bill went on to detail registration and regulation of the remaining guns, which is where the name came from in a feeble attempt to help it slide under the public radar. Knowing the Malton media, that would probably have worked, if it weren't for Marshall Bradwell--he wrote an editorial while it was still being revised that started the big furor over it.

Note the voting record; despite the bill's resounding unpopularity with most of the city's population, more than eighty percent of the representatives voted for it. That wasn't very unusual in the Malton council. One of the six dissenting votes came from Leo Carmody, representative from Ridleybank and Barrville, who had been working against corruption in Malton's legislature for two terms at the time. Despite his widespread popularity, he was narrowly defeated in the 2004 elections by a much less disruptive candidate...

The bill also includes some fairly heavy restrictions on how much ammunition you can sell and how much can be in the city at any one time. Judging by the amount that actually appears to be lying around, either these rules were being flagrantly ignored, or the rumors about Special Forces helicopters, or both.

Submitted to the second Royal Commission for the Investigation of the Malton Quarantine by Mortimer Albright

'STER-Talk-Mod^P! 01:04, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

References: Airdrops, Malton City Council, Leo Carmody