wellspring/16-miscellaneous/10-01-private-possession-of-weapons.md

# Wellspring: Private Possession of Weapons

# Residents must have access to any weapons the police/military can use.

Implicit in the right to life is the right to defend one's life against initiations of force by other conagents. Therefore `WS` categorically denies to the legislature the power to make any laws which infringe on the residents' **pre-existing** right to keep and bear **all** weapons _which are in use by the police and military_. In particular:
- Any weapon which is in use by the police force **must** be freely and **liberally** available for purchase, distribution and use by the residents of a `WS` polity without exception.
- Any weapon which is in use by the military **must** be freely and **liberally** available for purchase, distribution and use by the residents of a `WS` polity, unless that weapon meets any of the following criteria:
  - The weapon is has intercontinental range, or range that extends beyond the borders of the `WS` polity.
  - The weapon, in its normal use-case, is designed to cause indiscriminate destruction at a scale larger than an ordinary building structure.

Ergo, any weapons which are denied to the police and military by the "Weaponry denied to the police and military" section below, are also denied to the private residents of a `WS` polity.

## Weaponry denied to the police and military:

The government shall never arm the police and/or military with weapons which have the following characteristics:
- Weapons which harness biological entities/organisms to cause harm to individuals; commonly known as "biological weapons".
- Weapons which harness an ability to **modify/write** to the consciousness (whether the data/memory, goals and/or algorithms/logic) of a conscious agent.
  - This shall not be construed to infringe on the rights of private conagents to volitionally use brain-computer interfaces and other similar technologies on their own consciousness, or on the consciousnesses of other consenting conagents.

The use, **by the government**, of technologies that grant the ability to **read** from the consciousness (whether the data/memory, goals and/or algorithms/logic) of a conscious agent are to be subject to those constraints outlined elsewhere in this constitution (_Chapter 08, Courts_) without exception.

## The "recreational nuke" controversy:

If at any time, for any reason, weapons of mass destruction are deployed by a `WS` government against the internal residents of a `WS` polity, every single conagent currently holding a political office in the legislative and executive branches shall **immediately** become an outlaw without exception.

For this reason, politicians holding office are advised to hold impeachment proceedings against any individual holding a political office who is engaged in conspiracy to deploy a weapon of mass destruction against the internal residents of a `WS` polity.