In fact, we read from the site of Judge Edoardo Mori on the legislation on weapons: the Decree Law 9/2/2012 modifies some rules of the TULPS and, as regards our matter it contains, in art. 13, the following provisions: 1. Royal decree no. 18, the following modifications are made: a) to article 1931, first paragraph, the words: “one year, counted” are replaced by the following: “three years, counted”.
The original text of the article said: When the law does not provide otherwise, the police authorizations have a duration of one year, calculated according to the common calendar, with effect from the day of issue. The day of commencement is not included in the term.
Become now: When the law does not provide otherwise, the police authorizations have a duration of three years, calculated according to the common calendar, with effect from the day of issue. The day of commencement is not included in the term.
In practical terms, this means that in the future all PS licenses will have a minimum validity of three years, unless the law provides otherwise, either by setting a longer term or by setting a shorter one.
All those licenses for weapons, explosives, ammunition, artifices that are now annual are extended to three years; those for which this term was already established remain two years of validity.
b) to article 42, third paragraph, the following sentence is added at the end: "The license is valid for one year"; the original text of the article said: Weapons, maces or clubs, blackjack, noccoliere cannot be brought out of one's home or belonging to it. Without justified reason, sticks equipped with a sharp tip, pointed or cutting tools capable of offending can not be taken out of their home or belonging to it. (repealed by law 110). The commissioner has the right to grant license to carry long firearms and the prefect has the right to grant, in case of demonstrated need, license to carry revolvers or pistols of any size or animated sticks whose blade is not less than 65 centimeters.
The problem is that the third paragraph does not exist! In fact, the first two paragraphs have been repealed by law 110/1975 and article 42 is officially made up of a single paragraph. We spread a pitiful tarp and admit that someone ignored this little detail.
The new text of art. 42 therefore becomes: The commissioner has the right to grant license to carry long firearms and the prefect has the right to grant, in case of demonstrated need, license to carry revolvers or pistols of any size or animated sticks whose blade is not less than cm 65. The license is valid for one year.
In practice this means that every weapon port (hunting, skeet shooting, self defense, security guards) will have to be renewed every year. Exactly the opposite of the simplification that the ministry wanted! Instead of increasing the validity, it shortens. Hunters and shooters will have to re-license every year instead of every six years!
If it is assumed that whoever wrote the amendment was ignorant of the Italian language and that he was unaware that the license for security guards is valid for two years, then one could also think that whoever wrote the law wanted to refer only to the license for short weapons; in this case the duration of the license for security guards is still reduced!
c) in Article 51, first paragraph, the words: "They last until December 31 of the year in which they were released" are replaced by the following: "They are valid for two years from the date of issue";licenses for the sale of explosives have a duration of two years from the date of issue.
The Decree must be converted into law within 60 days. Let's hope someone will inform the Minister of the nonsense they made her write.
eArmi.it - Encyclopedia of Weapons by Edoardo Mori
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