what is a arms act and what is the use when it found ????
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THE ARMS ACT, 1959
1. Short title, extent and commencement.—
(1) This Act may be called the Arms Act, 1959.
(2) It extends to the whole of India.
(3) It shall come into force on such date 1 as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
2. Definitions and interpretation.—
(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(a) “acquisition” with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, includes hiring, borrowing, or accepting as a gift;
(b) “ammunition” means ammunition for any firearm, and includes—
(i) rockets, bombs, grenades, shells 2 [and other missiles],
(ii) articles designed for torpedo service and submarine mining,
(iii) other articles containing, or designed or adapted to contain, explosive, fulminating or fissionable material or noxious liquid, gas or other such thing, whether capable of use with firearms or not,
(iv) charges for firearms and accessories for such charges,
(v) fuses and friction tubes,
(vi) parts of, and machinery for manufacturing, ammunition, and
(vii) such ingredients of ammunition as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify in this behalf;
(c) “arms” means articles of any description designed or adapted as weapons for offences, or defence, and includes firearms, sharp-edged and other deadly weapons, and parts of, and machinery for manufacturing arms, but does not include articles designed solely for domestic or agricultural uses such as a lathi or an ordinary walking stick and weapons incapable of being used otherwise than as toys or of being converted into serviceable weapons;
3 [(d) “district magistrate” in relation to any area for which a Commissioner of Police has been appointed, means the Commissioner of Police thereof and includes any such Deputy Commissioner of Police, exercising jurisdiction over the whole or any part of such area, as may be specified by the State Government in this behalf in relation to such area or parts;]
Answer:arms act states the denial of having weapons in the hands of indians. it was first started by lord Curzon
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