Police and Security, Vol. 33 No. 1, 2024.
Professional paper
https://doi.org/10.59245/ps.33.1.6
Procurement of Weapons for the Purpose of Personal Security
Dinko Ljubić
; Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Croatia, Directory for Immigration and Administrative Affairs, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Personal security is one of the fundamental human rights. In special circumstances, namely in specific situations when the state, as the holder of the monopoly of legal, physical coercion through its institutions, is unable to provide its citizens with sufficient personal security, it allows the citizens to protect themselves by virtue of giving them the opportunity to acquire firearms legally. This paper is thematically divided into an introductory section in which some basic problems and questions are presented, the central part of the work which deals with the peculiarities of the acquisition and possession of weapons as well as analysis of the reasons that are justified when acquiring weapons for the purpose of personal security. Furthermore, the concept of personal security itself is examined with specific reference to criminal law institutes of necessary defence and last resort, as well as training citizens for the proper use of weapons and, finally, concluding remarks. The aim of this paper is to compare the previously valid and current regulations and court practice, to determine the direction of movement (liberalisation or tightening) of the regulations that regulate the possession of weapons for the purpose of personal security, and at the same time to detect omissions, inconsistencies or legal gaps and to make proposals for their elimination.
Keywords
weapons, acquisition of weapons, personal safety, self-defence, necessary defence, last resort
Hrčak ID:
315554
URI
Publication date:
10.4.2024.
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