Latvia. 2019 ‘Sections 2 & 3.’ Law on the Handling of Weapons; Sections 2&3. Riga: Latvia. 10 April

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Law on the Handling of Weapons

Section 2. Purpose of this Law

The purpose of this Law is to determine the rights and obligations of State and local government authorities and private individuals in relation to the handling of weapons, ammunition, their components, and special means in Latvia, as well as to determine the classification of such objects, the prohibitions and restrictions in relation to such objects in order to guarantee personal and public safety.

Section 3. Scope of Application of this Law

(1) This Law applies to weapons, ammunition, their components, and special means, except for:

1) antique firearms;

2) copies of firearms;

3) bows;

4) industrially manufactured and certified production instruments, technical instruments, instruments for animal slaughtering in which the operational principles or constructions of firearms have been used and which may be used only for the intended purposes;

5) industrially manufactured objects (devices) which are intended for causing an alarm, signalling, saving of lives and in which the operational principles or constructions of firearms have been used, and which may be used only for the intended purposes;

6) underwater hunting weapons if they can be used only for the abovementioned purposes;

7) replications of antique firearms if a round intended for the prohibited firearms or firearms for the handling of which a permission of the State Police is required cannot be fired from them.

(2) An object which is intended or can be adapted for the firing of a projectile as a result of the action of gunpowder or another propellant shall also be considered a firearm if it resembles a firearm or has been disguised as another object and its construction or material from which this object has been manufactured allows for it to be converted for the firing of a projectile as a result of the action of gunpowder or another propellant, except for the objects referred to in Paragraph one of this Section.

(3) This Law applies to ammunition and its components, except for:

1) arrows of bows and crossbows;

2) pyrotechnic signaling ammunition;

3) ammunition of pneumatic weapons;

4) ammunition of airsoft weapons;

5) ammunition of paintball weapons;

6) ammunition of underwater weapons.

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