Latvia. 2019 ‘Section 13(1).’ Law on the Handling of Weapons; Section 13. Riga: Latvia. 10 April

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Section 13. Prohibitions for Natural Persons and Legal Persons

(1) Natural persons are prohibited from:

1) acquiring, possessing, carrying, marketing, using and applying salute weapons (acoustic weapons);

2) acquiring, possessing, carrying, marketing, and applying electric shock devices with wires that can be fired, and with electrodes;

3) acquiring, possessing, and marketing ammunition the projectile of which is filled with medicinal products intended for the temporary incapacitation, paralysing, or killing of animals, and weapons specially intended for such ammunition;

4) carrying such non-firearm weapons which are specially intended for inflicting bodily harm, except for non-firearm weapons intended for hunters, fishers, and anglers - in hunting, fishing, and angling -, non-firearm weapons intended for athletes for the particular type of sports - in competitions or training -, and non-firearm weapons which are used by the participants of cultural events in performances, parades, and other official cultural events;

5) acquiring, carrying, transporting, using and applying firearms, gas weapons and signal weapons, pneumatic weapons, airsoft weapons, paintball weapons, lasertag devices, deactivated weapons under the influence of alcohol if the alcohol concentration detected in the exhaled air or the blood alcohol concentration detected in a blood test exceeds 0.5 per mille, as well as under the influence of narcotic, psychotropic, toxic or other intoxicating substances;

6) acquiring and transporting the exchangeable essential components of firearms under the influence of alcohol if the alcohol concentration detected in the exhaled air or the blood alcohol concentration detected in a blood test exceeds 0.5 per mille, as well as under the influence of narcotic, psychotropic, toxic or other intoxicating substances;

7) attending cultural, festive, commemorative, entertainment, sports or recreational events available to the public at a public place with firearms, gas weapons and signal weapons, pneumatic weapons, airsoft weapons, paintball weapons, lasertag devices, deactivated weapons, non-firearm weapons, ammunition, and special means, as well as to demonstrate them at a public place, except when it has been permitted by the organiser of the event;

8) openly carrying weapons and their ammunition, deactivated weapons, and special means;

9) acquiring, possessing, carrying, marketing, using, and applying fire sound suppressors (silencers) for self-defence, as well as to equip self-defence firearms with them.

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