CAs reported on the pages of Il Giornale di Vicenza, about twenty firearms permits for sporting use come out of the police station per day. Nice job for the men in the Weapons and Hunting Department, who have to go through each request very carefully. In 2014 932 permits were issued, in 2015 there were 2.141.
To raise the numbers was the entry into force of a European legislation that made it easier to get a weapon for sporting use.
In practice, a medical certificate is enough, in addition to the documentation required by the police, and you can circulate with rifles and pistols, kept in the appropriate cases, to dedicate yourself to target shooting in the range.
Many have thus transformed their detention permit, often used in the case of rifles and pistols inherited after the death of a passionate relative, into a sports license.
Finally, the numbers of those requesting a weapon for personal defense remain low: the people from Vicenza who have requested it are "only" 112.
Vicenzatoday.it