Caning is used as a form of punishment in Singapore for such serious crimes as rape, unlawful possession of firearms, robbery, extortion.

The 1927 Act required the tribunal to pass death sentences for treason and murder, and permitted it to do so for unlawful possession of firearms; no appeal would be permitted.

Forty one year old antiques dealer, Albert Street, and director, Fred, decorator, Fred Holden aged forty three, both deny robbery and the unlawful possession of firearms.

Mr. Mourad's co-defendants, Mr. Kabbani, 36, and George Fouad Nicholas Younan, 44, are charged with transporting explosives without a license and with unlawful possession of firearms.

Maake was charged with 36 counts of murder, 28 attempted murders, 15 counts of rape, 46 counts of aggravated robbery, and other offenses relating to the unlawful possession of firearms and ammunition.

After Anastasio Bustamante took office in January 1830, considering the instability of the previous year, a mandate was issued that required all in unlawful possession of firearms to surrender them to the government and made it illegal to pawn or purchase them.

Waterman was convicted in 1968 of attempting to smuggle gold out of Britain, as well as unlawful possession of firearms including two sub-machine guns, two rifles, and three pistols, and possession of dies for forging coins, and sentenced to four years in prison.