A comparative legal study on private licensing of firearms between Malaysia and USA / Aiman Jamshah … [et al.]

This research is a comparative legal study on firearms licensing between Malaysia and United States of America. This study sets out to discover the suitability of the Malaysian private-use firearm licensing to the current state of Malaysia today. This study also seeks to discover whether the American system of firearm licensing can be applied to the Malaysian current situation. In America, their system is very lenient in issuing firearms to the public. Even though the perception of the public believes that this actually increase the crime rates, but in reality, evidence that was obtain through research found that it works trie other way around. We found that the American system may be suitable to replace the Malaysian system that we are using right now in order to solve the increase number of crime rates in Malaysia. But the American system should be amended so that it could fit to the uniqueness of the Malaysian society.