A firearm is a device partly or wholly made of metal having components or mechanical devices such as barrel, clubbing, trigger, spring, bullet chamber which can throw a bullet through the barrel with the aid of an explosive. Along with the development of many cases of misuse of firearms. The perpetrators of this gun use are charged with criminal sanctions as set out in Emergency Law Number 12 Year 1951
About Firearms. Based on this, this study aims to examine the procedure of obtaining a permit for firearms ownership and sanction of misuse of firearms. The type of research used is the type of normative research, the legal materials in use are primary legal materials and secondary legal materials, techniques used in collecting legal materials that is document study techniques. The data analysis used is qualitative and analyzed with qualitative descriptive analytical technique. So it can be concluded that the public is allowed to own firearms under the conditions set by the prevailing regulations, namely Law No.8 of 1948 and in the application of sanctions judge in rarely court ruled by Emergency Law No.12 of
1951 regarding Firearms Because the judge will find it difficult to apply sanctions because in the regulation is not explained in detail about the forms of acts of misuse of firearms so that again the judge will use the Criminal Code in applying criminal sanctions.
Keywords: Firearms, Abuse