[MicroBalrog]

I've read (somewhere) that dueling is still legal in some places/countries.
Is that true? And if so, how do the laws account for the use of modern/semi-auto and full-auto weapons in dueling? Or is it forbidden?

[Orthonym]

Honduras?

[Jeff Timm]

I suspect you are making an erroneous assumption.

Just because dueling is not illegal, does not mean it is Government Regulated!

Geoff
Who thinks someone has been looking at the law the wrong way...:cool:

[CWL]

I don't think that dueling was generally legal even way back 200-500 years ago. Law-enforcement just wasn't well organized.

There were generally laws against such public nuisances (private wars make the nobility shudder). (Shakespeare's 'Romeo & Juliet' had the Duke outlawing dueling within his realm.) Also had a tendency to wipe out the cream of the crop of young officer's class -those in the military were specifically prohibited to duel on pain of cashiering.

The famous dueling scars that Prussian officers sported were made under well-governed rules. Duelists wore steel goggles to protect the eyes and fought to draw 'first blood'.