The Third Section of the Veneto Regional Administrative Court ruled on a man's appeal after failure renewal of the license of the port of shotgun for hunting use. According to the Police Headquarters, the conviction for criminal association for theft weighed on the judgment (from 2002 to 2003 to be precise). The hunter complained that the rehabilitation has intervened in the meantime to concretely evaluate its danger.
The more than ten years that have elapsed since the offenses were considered sufficient by the applicant for the green light to renew, but this was not the case. However, the TAR rejected the appeal for various reasons. First of all, the crimes of this person fall within those of the first paragraph of article 43 of TULPS (the Consolidated Law on Public Safety Laws). Furthermore, the orientations of the jurisprudence have been conflicting over time.
The judges preferred to follow the path of a recent ruling by the Council of Stator, according to which various crimes cannot have the firearms license renewed even with criminal rehabilitation. Among other things, for the Court this assessment is discretionary. The ruling refers to a few days ago and it will certainly represent a “heavy” precedent in the examination of similar cases and with identical characteristics.