Citation(s) from the GunPolicy.org literature library
Lithuania. 2020 ‘Record-keeping.’ National Report of Lithuania on its Implementation of the United Nations Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects (UNPoA); Section 7, p. 19. New York NY: Permanent Mission of Lithuania to the United Nations. 1 January
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Record keeping
7.5. Does your country have standards and procedures related to keeping of records for all marked SALW in its territory?
7.5.1. What records relating to SALW are kept by the State (e.g. manufacturing, brokering, import and export licences granted, sales to other States, SALW held by State agencies such as the armed forces etc)?
In armed forces: distribution acts, invoices, bills of lading, arms of the receipt, weapons issue documents, arms accounting book, combat arms register. Records of firearms kept by Weaponry Fund of Lithuania contains following information: type of firearm, model, identification numbers, caliber, year of production, category (A, B, C or D), purpose, loading type, date and way of loss, date of annihilation, registration date and place of storage.
7.5.2. How long does the government keep such records? In armed forces: distribution acts, bills of lading - 10 years, arms of the receipt, invoices - 10 years, weapons issue documents, arms accounting book - 10 years, combat arms register - 100 years. In the Weaponry fund of Lithuania, records about fire arms are kept permanently. After the destruction or export of the firearm, records are still kept for 30 years.
[SALW = Small Arms and Light Weapons]