The section before the Lombardy Regional Administrative Court expressed itself with a very important sentence regarding the firearms license. In a nutshell, a conviction dating back twenty years cannot compromise the possession of the license: the ruling of the TAR judges came after the appeal of a man who was denied the release of the rifle port for sporting use due to a precedent for damage. At the time this person was barely of age.
Here is what we read in the pronunciation: “The refusal to issue the license of rifle port was adopted by the Varese Police Headquarters with exclusive reference to a criminal conviction decree, which became enforceable on 16 June 1997, for a fact of concurrence in a damage committed in 1996, when the applicant had just come of age. The prognostic judgment of unreliability, precisely because it is aimed at predicting the future developments of the applicant's conduct, must be drawn up taking into consideration not only past conduct but all the elements that can be found at the time of its formulation.
The Police Headquarters has not even ascertained whether the damage was committed by the applicant with violent mode, such as to be dangerous for the safety of people, for public order or for peaceful collective coexistence. The College observes that the relevance of the applicant's unreliability in not abuse of weapons it cannot be inferred from the fact that he omitted to declare, in the application for the issue of the rifle port license, that he had reported a definitive criminal conviction for the crime of damage ".