I am especially interested by the shooting with military weapons ( pistol or rifle ), but it is also the category of weapon hardest to be able to buy in France, moreover, where I live, shooting ranges of more than 50 meters are rare ( thus I go to Switzerland
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the French legislation on the weapons is very hard !
there is 8 catégory of weapon
- 1st : military weapon ( rather calibre used by an army )
even if, it is a civilian bolt action rifle in 30.06, because the ammunition was used in an army
automatic weapons are forbidden !!
- 2nd : vehicles or support being used to receive a weapon of 1st category
- 3rd : NBC equipments
- 4th : Weapons of defense
all pistols and revolvers not using ammunition classified into 1st category
( that included one round 22lr pistol )
all semi auto rifle not using ammunition classified into 1st category with a box magazine 2+1 < x < 10+1 or a detachable box magazine
all kind of shotguns with a capacity x < 0+1
- 5th : Hunting rifle
all other rifles not being classified in the 1st, 4th and 7th category
- 6th : all objects suceptible to constitute a danger to public safety
crossbows, bows, knives for exemple
- 7th : shooting weapons
all rifles using rimmed fire ammunitions
the air weapons (using .177 calibre for exemple ) and the alarm/blank guns
- 8th : historical weapons
weapons neutralized
weapons produced before 1870
reproduction faithful of old weapons
to buy weapons of 1st and 4th category it is necessary:
to be 21 years old
being in a shooting range since 6 months
to have a strong trunk
and to wait more than 1 years for its first authorization of acquistion
here approximately what it is necessary to know about the french legislation