Talk:Weapons

Legal Issues

We need to clarify the scope of relevance of terrestrial jurisdictions and their requirements and prohibitions. I suppose there could be issues with colonies that fall under the jurisdiction of terrestrial governments, but a lot of colonies will be seeking to avoid such entanglements for a great many reasons. Admittedly, spacecraft traffic may have fewer escapes from such jurisdictions. -- Strangelv 03:07, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

National laws and various treaties apply until the colonists can exert their independence. Every spacecraft (and base) is currently required to fly a flag of of some recognized nation. Then ISS has a special intergovernmental agreement between the partners which defines their shared jurisdiction. So the answer is: "it all depends".Charles F. Radley 15:25, 7 January 2008 (UTC)