Talk:Gun law in Pakistan

Removal of Gandhi's quotation

An IP has been continuously trying to put the following unsourced content which grossly misquotes Gandhi. The only citation goes to a website waginnonviolence.org which ironically refutes the content itself. The actual context can be read over there and even in the Gandhi article.

The quotation from Gandhi, "Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. If we want the Arms Act to be repealed, if we want to learn the use of arms, here is a golden opportunity. If the middle classes render voluntary help to Government in the hour of its trial, distrust will disappear, and the ban on possessing arms will be withdrawn." does not belong to this page at all.

Full unreferenced material

Pakistan's gun culture can date back to as early as 1918, when Mahatma Gandhi supported individual gun ownership both as a means of defending oneself and as a tool to violently resist government tyranny. Gandhi published a World War I recruitment pamphlet in 1918, urging Indians to fight with their British colonial oppressors in the war, not against them. In the pamphlet, Gandhi references India’s Arms Act of 1878, which gave Europeans in India the right to carry firearms but prevented Indians from doing so, unless they were granted a license by the British colonial government. The full text of what he wrote is: At this time, Gandhi was still a British loyalist. He hoped to encourage the British to repeal the Arms Act and grant India Home Rule within the British Empire. Gandhi wanted Indians to fight in World War I to prove themselves trustworthy with arms and fit for citizenship. He was advocating for appeasement of India’s colonial rulers, not independence from them. Later, Gandhi’s thinking on this subject would change dramatically, but when he did initiate a campaign for full independence from the British Empire, he advocated only nonviolent means of resistance. Gandhi’s philosophy became indomitable after World War I, and on August 14, 1947, Pakistan won its independence. After independence, Pakistan had inherited the British-era Arms Act of 1878. The inheritance of this Act hampered the ability of Pakistanis and the 10-million Mohajir refugees to protect themselves during the violence of the partition of India

Request any user to remove it, if they see it put up again. -Ugog Nizdast (talk) 07:11, 2 August 2013 (UTC)

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This article

This article is probably very outdated and contains some misconceptions. Tribal Areas were abolished in 2018 and some gun laws were restricted also. Also licensing appears to be more complicated than article suggests. I will try to add sources to it. Borysk5 (talk) 11:00, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

Hi there, I agree with the above comment, I think the license section could be tightened though I lack the specific knowledge. I have been combing through the article to help tighten some of the grammar, fix typos and this has involved re-ordering some of the sentences too. Apologies, I am quite new to Wikipedia so made some of these edits immediately as the page was listed on the community portal. I have since come here to the talk page and have seen that the article does seem to need this work. Please do revert any of the edits I have made if you don't think they are right--Mattbenjamin2021 11:22, 26 June 2021 (UTC)