How will irresponsibility in keeping weapons and explosives, causing serious consequences, be handled?

Article 308, The Penal Code 2015 (amended in 2017) stipulatestNegligence in keeping weapons, explosives, and supporting tools causing serious consequences, as follows:

1. A person who is assigned military weapons, hunting guns, sports weapons, explosives, or support tools and irresponsibly allows others to use them in one of the following cases shall be subject to non-custodial reform for up to 03 years or imprisonment from 06 months to 03 years:

a) Causing death;

b) Causing injury or damage to the health of another person with a bodily injury rate of 61% or more;

c) Causing injury or damage to the health of 02 or more people, with the total body injury rate of these people from 61% to 121%;

d) Causing property damage from VND 100,000,000 to under VND 500,000,000.

2. Committing a crime in one of the following cases shall be punishable by imprisonment from 02 years to 07 years:

a) Killed 02 people;

b) Causing injury or damage to the health of 02 or more people, with the total body injury rate of these people from 122% to 200%;

c) Causing property damage from VND 500,000,000 to under VND 1,500,000,000.

3. Committing a crime in one of the following cases shall be punishable by imprisonment from 05 years to 10 years:

a) Causing the death of 3 or more people;

b) Causing injury or damage to the health of 03 or more people, with the total body injury rate of these people being 201% or more;

c) Causing property damage of VND 1,500,000,000 or more.

4. The offender may also be banned from holding positions, practicing a profession or doing certain jobs from 01 to 05 years.