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Criminal possession of a weapon<\/b>\u00a0is the unlawful\u00a0possession of a weapon by an individual. Many societies both past and present have placed restrictions on what forms of weaponry private citizens (and to a lesser extent police) are allowed to purchase, own, and carry in public. Such crimes are\u00a0public order crimes\u00a0and are considered\u00a0mala prohibita<\/i>, in that the possession of a weapon in and of itself is not evil. Rather, the\u00a0potential<\/i>\u00a0for use in acts of unlawful violence creates a perceived need to control them. Some restrictions are\u00a0strict liability, whereas others require some element of\u00a0intent\u00a0to use the weapon for an illegal purpose. Some regulations allow a citizen to obtain a permit or other authorization to possess the weapon under certain circumstances. Lawful uses of weapons by civilians commonly include hunting, sport, collection and\u00a0self-preservation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Criminal possession of a weapon\u00a0is the unlawful\u00a0possession of a weapon by an individual. Many societies both past and present have placed restrictions on what forms of weaponry private citizens (and to a lesser extent police) are allowed to purchase, own, and carry in public. Such crimes are\u00a0public order crimes\u00a0and are considered\u00a0mala prohibita, in that the possession of a weapon in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1876","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/lawman-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1876"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/lawman-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/lawman-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/lawman-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/lawman-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/lawman-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1877,"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/lawman-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1876\/revisions\/1877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.moralthemes.com\/lawman-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}