The increase of all types of criminal action in society by shape of murder, stealing,
robbery as well as gun-pointing of which had been frequently happened in society, thus it
emerges the insecure feeling to the members of society. Relating to the rights to live, thus
there are many people by various ways protect themselves, one of them is by striving the
ownership of fire-gun. The misuse of fire-gun is to the arbitrary actions and instead to have
aim for self protecting. Towards the misuse of fire-gun ownership it has been firmly
regulated and liable to punish with the Article 1 paragraph (1) of the Emergency Law
Number 12 of 1951 on Fire-Gun, of which sentences:
Whoever, those without any right import into Indonesia, create, receive, try,
gain, submit or strive to give, master, bring, have the supply on them or has in their
property, save, load, hide, use or emigrate from Indonesia a type of fire gun,
ammunition, or explosive compounds, is punished by the death verdict or lifelong
imprisonment punishment, or jail verdict at least for twenty years.
The author took the title The Action of Police towards the Misuse of Illegal
Fire-Gun Owned by Civil People. From the explanation aforementioned above, there
are two problem formulations, i.e.: How is the Action of Police towards the Misuse of
Illegal Fire-Gun by Civil People?
From the problem formulation aforementioned above it can be drawn
conclusion, i.e. the action of police are: monitoring the presence of fire-gun which
circulate in the society, routinely and periodically supervise on the presence of firegun
in order the civil people can not easily misuse fire-gun by trivial reason of
economy, regularly conducting shooting test to the civil people who have had license
or those who eager to have fire-gun, conducting psychological test of which routinely
conducted for the fire-gun owner: it is meant to know the psychical condition of firegun
owner, whether in stabile or unstable condition, draw the license of fire-gun
ownership, conducting legal process to the perpetrator of fire-gun misuse in the case
of they had been proven to do fire-gun misuse, thus the perpetrator of fire-gun misuse
is punished with the sanction appropriately to the current regulation on fire-gun,
taking preventing (avoidance) action by conducting sweeping as well as routinely
operating and particularly in night clubs or in the sites of which is prejudiced to be a
site to do fire-gun trading, conducting repressive action, i.e. by processing the
perpetrator through legal channel to the civil people who had been proven to conduct
fire-gun misuse and the drawing of license of fire-gun ownership as well as the
sentencing of imprisonment verdict to the civil people who conduct fire-gun misuse
appropriately to those regulated in the Emergency Laws Number 12 of 1951 junction
Criminal Code, i.e. the imprisonment punishment for at least 20 years.