India, Oct. 3 -- Gun violence in India is on its peak and there is no full stop to it. A recent instance is the shootout on Uttar Pradesh police in which eight police personnel were killed by gangsters.

The continuous grabbing of arms and ammunitions by Maoists and anti-national elements (NCRB data 2018) and growing illegal arms manufacturing factories in West Bengal and other parts of India are a few areas of concerns for the authorities Further, India's latest stand at number two in the world ranking in a number of privately owned firearms, named as one of the largest arm importer countries by the report of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), and growing gun shops in many States are the few questions on the enfo...