PENEGAKAN HUKUM TERHADAP PENGGUNAAN SENJATA API RAKITAN DI WILAYAH HUKUM KEPOLISIAN RESOR KOTA PEKANBARU

Abstract

Assembled firearms are also called small arms because they are replicas and are assembled following
the patterns of standard combat firearms, which are produced by illegal "home-made" gun manufacturing
factories by the public. With the ownership of homemade firearms by civil society, law enforcement must be
carried out against anyone who violates the law according to applicable regulations, namely the Emergency
Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 12 of 1951. In this case, the Pekanbaru City Police plays the role
of law enforcer. In the 2017-2021 period, cases of the use of homemade firearms are still common, and
there are also cases that have not been resolved. The purpose of writing this thesis, namely; First, knowing
the law enforcement against the use of homemade firearms in the jurisdiction of the Pekanbaru City Police.
Second, obstacles in law enforcement against the use of home-made firearms in the jurisdiction of the
Pekanbaru City Police. Third, efforts to overcome the use of homemade firearms in the jurisdiction of the
Pekanbaru City Police.
This type of research is sociological legal research, namely research that seeks a correlation between
law and society. This research is descriptive, that is, the researcher tries to provide an overview of the cases
under study.
The results of this study are that the misuse of homemade firearms still often occurs in the community.
The Pekanbaru City Police have implemented preventive and repressive law enforcement, although there
are still internal obstacles such as a lack of information by the police, as well as external obstacles such as
a lack of community participation.
Keywords : Homemade Firearms – Police – Public