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The Arms Offences Act has also played a part in the 1983 high-profile Andrew Road triple murders, which were committed by 19-year-old NS conscript Sek Kim Wah. In this case, on 23 July 1983, Sek, together with an accomplice Nyu Kok Meng, also aged 19, armed themselves with a rifle which Sek stole from his army camp in Nee Soon and went to rob a rich businessman's house in Andrew Road and took ...
The Development of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice in Singapore. Singapore: Singapore Journal of Legal Studies, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore. ISBN 981-04-3720-X. Chan, Wing Cheong; Michael Hor; Yew Meng; Victor V. Ramraj (2005). Fundamental Principles of Criminal Law: Cases and Materials. Singapore: LexisNexis. ISBN 981 ...
To purchase from a licensed dealer, one must be 18 for long guns and 21 for handguns. [234] The respective age requirements apply to purchasing ammunition from a dealer, retail store or online. Federally, new firearms must be transferred by a federally licensed dealer (FFL) with form 4473 and background check.
Increase in age restriction for selling, etc., obscene object to minor – The age restriction under s. 293, which makes it an offence for any person to sell, hire, distribute, exhibit or circulate any obscene object to any person under 20 years, will be increased to 21 years in line with the Restricted 21 (R21) classification for films. [21]
In 2022, Singapore ranked as the first safest country or area in the Global Law and Order Index. [3] It was also ranked third safest city in 2021 by the Economist Intelligence Unit, [ 4 ] [ 5 ] and 24th safest out of 136 countries in the Global Organized Crime Index by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime .
A decades-old U.S. government ban on federally licensed firearms dealers selling handguns to adults under the age of 21 is unconstitutional, a U.S. appeals court held on Thursday, citing recent U ...
SAR 21: 5.56×45mm NATO Singapore: Standard rifle of Singapore Armed Forces. [35] BR18: 5.56×45mm NATO Singapore: Currently undergoing trials. Replacing SAR-21 in the future. [36] M4 carbine: 5.56×45mm NATO United States: Colt M4/M16A2E Early Colt M4 in service with the Naval Diving Unit and Special Operations Task Force. [37] M16S1: 5.56× ...
The St. Louis-based 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with gun rights groups in finding the state's ban violated the rights of 18- to 20-year-olds under the U.S. Constitution's Second ...