State Police report
As announced by the Ministry of the Interior, there is some important news regarding the currently valid firearms licenses. The Viminale has in fact made public the data concerning the whole of 2022, taking a cue from the report on the activities of the State Police. There are details for various uses, including the hunting one which is of great interest.
A clear decline
Going into more detail, the decline in hunters is a trend that needs to be dealt with. In 2019, in fact, there were over 672 thousand hunting licenses, while just twelve months ago there were just 609 thousand. The calculation is not difficult but also emblematic: the hunters "lost" over the course of three hunting seasons were 62 thousand.
Sports licenses
The same discourse, on the contrary, cannot be done for sports licenses in our country, which are all in all stable. Indeed, in 2022 they even grew: in 2019, therefore shortly before the outbreak of the covid-19 pandemic, the licenses in question were 548 thousand, while a year ago there were 574 thousand in total, therefore 26 thousand more.