"The Kingdom's Metal Restriction Decree?"
Wood searched his memory. He knew this decree; it had been issued in the fifth year of Queen Mary I's reign to stabilize the order after the war.
That year, several small coastal towns in the Gale Empire, due to disputes over sea fishing rights, had secretly formed militia organizations. They collected iron and steel to forge weapons and raided a neighboring country's small islands, causing a major diplomatic conflict.
At that time, they used homemade weapons to cause significant casualties. From then on, the Queen angrily issued the metal restriction decree and strictly punished any organization or individual who manufactured illegal firearms and explosives.
So this time, the case of the homemade gun in Dune had garnered special attention from the Empire's central government, which had even sent high-level inspectors to the local area to supervise law enforcement, fearing history would repeat itself.
