Il Regional Administrative Court of Potenza has ruled on the revocation of the license to carry a shotgun for hunting use. This is a new and important sentence that closely concerns the hunting and gunsmithing world. The case examined by the judges is that of a man criminally convicted of a theft and that he behaved in a correct and integral manner over the following years, also achieving rehabilitation.
Despite all this, the Police Headquarters continued to confirm the revocation. As detailed by the Cataldi Law Firm, rehabilitation does not confer an additional right on the person concerned, but at the same time the Public Administration cannot consider past convictions as unchangeable. If this situation always arises, in fact, the reasons for rejection they would be continuous.
The criminal conviction can represent an obstacle to the renewal of the hunting license only in the presence of other factors that indicate the danger of the subject. For administrative judges, it is also necessary to check the conduct of the person concerned after the sentence and any other useful element. The hunter's appeal was accepted and the revocation of the license ended after a long process.