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current United States Governors > Party
PPD (Democratic) |
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current United States Governors > Seat Up
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2008 |
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Gun Laws > Permits
The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico requires a license to purchase or carry a firearm. |
Gun Laws > Prohibited firearms
It is unlawful to sell or keep for sale, or offer, give, lease or otherwise dispose of or transport any automatic firearm, or to possess a machine gun, carbine, rifle, sawed-off shotgun or any other modification of these, or any other firearm that may be fired automatically. |
Gun Laws > Prohibited persons
The Superintendent of Police of Puerto Rico shall not issue a license to have or possess firearms to any person who has been convicted of any of the following offenses or of the attempt to commit the same, in or outside Puerto Rico: murder in any degree, manslaughter, kidnaping, rape, mayhem, intent to commit any felony, aggravated assault and battery with a weapon, robbery, burglary, misappropriation, aggravated misappropriation, arson, aggravated arson, or incest. In addition, a license cannot be issued to any person who is mentally unbalanced, a habitual drunkard, addicted to a controlled substance, or an alien, or who has been a citizen of the United States and renounced such citizenship, or has been adjudicated as a mental defective by a court or discharged from the armed forces under dishonorable conditions, or is under a court order prohibiting stalking, spying, threatening, or approaching an intimate partner or children of an intimate partner, or has a history of violence. |
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Patents Issued
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582 |
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Southern Governors' Association > current Southern Governors > Current Governor
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Aníbal Acevedo-Vilá |
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Southern Governors' Association > current Southern Governors > Elected/took office
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2004 |
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Southern Governors' Association > current Southern Governors > Party
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Democrat |
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Southern Governors' Association > current Southern Governors > Seat Up
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2008 |
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State court > Nomenclature > Court of Last Resort
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Supreme Court |
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State court > Nomenclature > Intermediate Appellate Court
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Circuit Court of Appeals |
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