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===India===
{{Main|Gun law in India}}
Guns in [[India]] are regulated by law. The [[Arms Act, 1959]] and the Arms Rules 1962 prohibit the sale, manufacture, possession, acquisition, import, export, and transport of firearms and ammunition unless under a license, which is difficult to obtain. The Indian Government has a monopoly over the production and sale of firearms, with the exception of some breech-loading smooth-bore shotguns, of which a limited number may be produced and imported.<ref name="Lakshmi">{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/31/AR2010013102079.html |title=New groups mobilize as Indians embrace the right to bear arms |newspaper=The Washington Post |date= 1 February 2010|access-date=17 March 2010 | first=Rama | last=Lakshmi}}</ref> The Arms Act classifies firearms into two categories: Prohibited Bore (PB) and Non-Prohibited Bore (NPB), where all semi-automatic and fully automatic firearms fall under the Prohibited Bore category. The Arms Act of 1962 added to the Prohibited bore category, any firearm which can chamber and fire ammunition of calibers .303, 7.62&nbsp;mm, .410, .380, .455, .45 rimless, or 9&nbsp;mm. Smooth-bore guns having barrels shorter than 20 Inches (508&nbsp;mm) are also specified as Prohibited guns.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://delhipolicelicensing.gov.in/lists/THE-ARMS-RULES-1962.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130901074834/http://delhipolicelicensing.gov.in/lists/THE-ARMS-RULES-1962.pdf |archive-date=2013-09-01 |url-status=live |title=The arms Rules, 1962 |publisher=Delhipolicelicensing.gov.in |access-date=18 February 2015}}</ref>

Licenses for acquisition and possession of both PB and NPB firearms could be given by a [[state governments of India|state government]] or [[district collector|district magistrate]] before 1987. Since that year, issuing of licenses for PB firearms became the responsibility of the [[Central government of India|central government]]. Licenses are valid for five years and may be renewed after the term. The sale of firearms requires both the selling and purchasing party to possess a permit.<ref name="Indian home ministry">{{cite web
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The criteria considered during issuing of NPB firearm permits are whether the applicant faces a threat to their life. PB firearms criteria are more stringent, often for persons in government positions who face immediate danger or threats, those whose occupations involve open threats and danger, and their immediate family members. PB licenses were tightened since 2014, when otherwise-eligible persons started to be frequently rejected on basis of national security grounds.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.uncjin.org/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090208084652/http://www.uncjin.org/Statistics/firearms|url-status=dead|title=UNODC and Nutrisystem Can Unite In A Battle Against Addiction|archive-date=8 February 2009|website=www.uncjin.org}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.iansa.org/regions/scasia/scasia.htm |title= IANSA Regions: South and Central Asia|website=www.iansa.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101123105509/http://www.iansa.org/regions/scasia/scasia.htm |archive-date=23 November 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://disarmament.un.org/cab/salw-nationalreports.html |title= Small arms and light weapons|website=disarmament.un.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030604062803/http://disarmament.un.org/cab/salw-nationalreports.html |archive-date=4 June 2003}}</ref><ref>Graduate Institute of International Studies, Small Arms Survey 2003: Development Denied, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, pp. 59–60; 112. Williams James Arputharaj, Chamila Thushani Hemmathagama and Saradha Nanayakkara, A Comparative Study of Small Arms Legislation in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, Colombo, Sri Lanka: South Asia Partnership (SAP) International, July 2003.</ref><ref>Niobe Thompson and Devashish Krishnan, "Small Arms in India and the Human Costs of Lingering Conflicts", in Abdel-Fatau Musah and Niobe Thompson, eds., Over a Barrel: Light Weapons and Human Rights in the Commonwealth, London and New Delhi: Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI), November 1999, pp. 35–64.</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=Abhijeet Singh |url=http://www.abhijeetsingh.com/arms/india/laws/forms/ |title=Indian Legal Forms |publisher=Abhijeet Singh |date=1999-02-22 |access-date=2014-04-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121016000036/http://www.abhijeetsingh.com/arms/india/laws/forms/ |archive-date=16 October 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Exceptions are made for defense officers, who are allowed to keep firearms without licenses under the Defence Service rule, and a handful of professional shooters.

Firearm licenses are issued on a may-issue basis and approximately half of applications are accepted. For example, between April 2015 and March 2016 authorities in [[Mumbai]] rejected 169 out of 342 firearm applications.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/gun-culture-spreads-in-dombivli-legal-arms-used-to-settle-scores/articleshow/59117127.cms|title=Gun culture spreads in Dombivli: Legal arms used to settle scores |date=12 June 2017}}</ref>