Latvia. 2019 ‘Section 15(1).’ Law on the Handling of Weapons; Section 15. Riga: Latvia. 10 April

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Section 15. Legal Persons who have the Right to Acquire, Possess, and Transport Weapons, Their Components and the Ammunition Intended for Them

(1) Security guard merchants and internal security services for the performance of security guard activities, if their shareholders, officials of the administration (representation) of the commercial company, as well as employees who according to the work duties have access to weapons and ammunition meet the conditions of Section 14, Paragraph ten of this Law and the prohibitions referred to in Section 23 of this Law (except for the prohibition referred to in Clause 12 thereof in relation to shareholders and managers) do not apply to them, have the following rights with the permission of the State Police:

1) to acquire, possess, transport, convey, and issue for carrying for work needs semi-automatic, repeating and single-shot short firearms of Category B classified for self-defence and their ammunition, as well as to use and apply the abovementioned firearms in accordance with the procedures laid down in the legal framework of security guard activities;

2) to acquire, possess, transport, convey, and issue for carrying for work needs long smooth-bore firearms of Categories B and C classified for self-defence and their ammunition, as well as to use and apply the abovementioned firearms in accordance with the procedures laid down in the legal framework of security guard activities.

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