On one issue there is no doubt: the firearms given to Sanjay Dutt in the middle of January 1993 were indeed for self-defence. 

So what is anybody complaining about? 

Self-defence is as good a defence morally as in a court of law.

The problem, as usual, lies in the detail. 

Which must be stated once again now because we live in times of such attention deficit disorder. Also, when the presumption seems to be that there was no history before Google.