Il Directive Committee 477 commented on the recent report broadcast by the satirical news “Striscia la Notizia” and dedicated to the release of medical certificates for the issue of the firearms license. The Committee condemned the documented abuses and also the violations, but at the same time he does not want individual episodes to be exploited to question the issue of certifications by medical officers.
According to the Striscia report, in fact, this opportunity has been defined as a "disturbing shortcut". The Committee then considered it incorrect to pass the concept that the system based on three certificates (the medical one for sporting activities with weapons, the anamnestic one and the one of psychophysical fitness) may be unreliable based on a single case. Over the years the abuses have been small and for the association this testifies that the system itself works.
The press release, on the contrary, was used to criticize the discretion of the ASL with regard to the required investigations, often expensive and excessively long. The hope is that the Ministry of Health will clarify the procedure to standardize and fix it clearly times and costs. It is not the first time that "Striscia la Notizia" comes scolded by the hunting world and from the gunsmith, especially in relation to the phenomenon of poaching.