Limit the spread of weapons that sometimes end up in the hands of subjects perhaps too prone to the temptation to give in to the "do-it-yourself defense". The emotional wave generated by the murder of Voghera and the political reflections that ignited after the case of the councilor Massimo Adriatici who shot, killing him, the 39-year-old of Moroccan origin Youns el Boussettaoui, did not leave the Democratic Party indifferent. Walter Verini, deputy and member of the Justice and Anti-Mafia commissions, today relaunches a bill presented in 2018 (signed by 29 dem deputies and also signed by parliamentarians from M5s, Leu and Italia Viva), for review and correct the regulations currently in force for the issue of the license to carry firearms.
The law to limit the sale of weapons and control the issue of licenses "It is a proposal that we presented some time ago - confirms Verini - which aims to tighten the controls for the dissemination of weapons for private use". From the reform “hunting and sporting activities are naturally excluded, but the obligations to inform family members in real time are strengthened, former family members, cohabitants, former cohabitants of those who go to buy, for example, a gun ". Furthermore, “collegiate visits are strengthened, intensified and qualified to certify full psycho-fitness. In short, the PDL wants to be a contribution to circulate far fewer weapons. With a weapon in hand, even family, condominium or street disputes can degenerate into tragedy. There are countries, like the US, where the situation is dramatic.
In Italy we must intervene and prevent heavy degeneration of 'private justice' and civil coexistence. The more weapons there are, the less security there is ”, is the underlying philosophy the implantation of the proposed law. The premise of the law, filed as mentioned in 2018, contains a consideration that refers to current events: "The news - Verini writes - unfortunately always brings us back, brutally, to an awareness that has already been rooted for some time: stringent rules are needed to avoid an uncontrolled spread of weapons in our country. The tragedies we are forced to witness testify to how too often weapons are in the wrong hands, or that maybe they have become wrong over time ". "Over the years we have tried to pass and legitimize the implicit message centered on 'private defense' - explains the deputy - almost encouraging citizens to do justice for themselves, buying and using weapons in the wake of the experience of other countries in which the spread of weapons has represented, as well as a market, also distortions of the same and an intertwining of business with politics ".
What are the objectives of the law? "It is necessary to tighten the controls for the issuing of licenses for the carrying of arms for private individuals and to make effective and permanent checks on psychophysical integrity and behavioral of those in possession of weapons ”, assessments that must be entrusted to a board of three ASL doctors, one of whom specializes in neurology or psychiatry to arrange for the issue or revocation of the license. “It is necessary to verify that every firearm is duly reported by who knows its existence in the house - is still written in the Pd proposal - as well as strengthening the tracking and control system. Obviously it cannot be sufficient, for example, to have 'inherited' a weapon from a relative who held it for work or in any case on a regular basis ”.
The proposal also provides "Forms of monitoring and control of the sale and possession of weapons: the obligation to communicate arms sales to the public security office is strengthened by providing for their simultaneous and not monthly execution, as is currently provided". The bill assigns to the Ministry of the Interior the task of preparing "guidelines on staff training, necessary for the management of databases, as part of the computer system dedicated to the traceability of weapons and ammunition, set up at the Department of Public Security "of the Interior Ministry (Today.it).