مجموعة ٣٣/٧ "المملكة العربية السعودية: قوانين تتعلق باستيراد وحيازة الأسلحة" [و‎‎١‎٤] (٩٦/٢٧)

Minute Paper,
P.Z.2102/36
Department,
The Saudi Regulation published in October 1935
prohibiting the import, sale, carrying and possession
of arms in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia will be found at
P.Z.63/36. It provides for a system of licences, and
although technically the list of persons authorised to
carry arms (see Article 7) is limited to official persons,
‘ it appears from a subsequent Article, No.16, that migrant
tribesmen e^wanot in fact be disarmed. The Articles which
are of direct interest to us are Nos.16 and 17. They lay
down a differentiation of treatment between the tribesmen
of Saudi Arabia and those of neighbouring countries. The
latter are required to deposit their arms at a frontier
post, the former only on entry into a town, and it was
therefore felt that the natives of such neighbouring
states as Koweit or the Trucial Sheikhdoms might be at a
disadvantage when journeying into the interior of Saudi
Arabia.
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The political Resiaent was asked to give his views
on this aspect of the Regulations and his reply will be
found at P.Z.2052. Koweit appears to be the state most
likely to be affected and Captain de Gaury’s comments are
therefore of interest. The Sheikh himself is satisfied
that no hardship is entailed, because, in his opinion, it
would be impossible for the Saudi Government to enforce
the Regulations in N.E.Arabia. This is probably true,
but it is possible that if a solution of the question of
the Saudi Blockade is reached in the near future
ch^f ective frontier posts will, in fact, be established on
the Koweit-Saudi frontier and it would therefore be
possible for Saudi officials to enforce the Regulations
against Koweiti subjects. The Regulations have, however,
now been in force for some months and no differentiation
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