@@stukafaust Italian here, If I heard it right it was made for fear that in case criminals would steal police pistols/SMGs they couldn't simply buy ammo for them in any gun store
I’m in Northern Ireland. Our laws are very similar. Although we have no caliber restrictions and can hold 1000 rounds of ammo for each caliber gun we possess. Main difference is semi auto centre fire rifles are banned. Which in my opinion is a nonsense. We are like Italy and have very little crime involving legally held firearms. However concealed carry is quite common here due to the ongoing paramilitary threat.
I actually became quite curious about Italian gun laws recently. I had to escort two Italians at work recently and we got to talking about firearms. Thanks for the video!
@@nataneraser well, we can have 5.56 barrel and shoot .223 through them. The real issue is 9x21 that ruined hundred of thousands of surplus historical guns.
I'd imagine it has something to do with reserving all production of those calibers for the military, so they'll never have a shortage. I still think its dumb, but that's the most logical reason
The gun laws seem better than the ones we have here in Canada! I like the pistols of any length provision. I am a huge fan of pocket pistols and snub nosed revolvers but they are virtually illegal here. Also the 10 and 20 round capacities for rifle and handgun respectively are awesome, here we have only 5 and 10.
@@Furiereindulgente That is very cool. So do you have a registration certificate for each gun you buy as well? Can you take it somewhere other than an approved range, like out in the countryside?
@@Snubrevolver we have to register each gun we buy and theoretically each ammo (but most police departments just wants the guns and don't really care about ammo). We can't take it to the countryside mostly because we don't have one. Italy is a really densely inhabited country, so there aren't many places to go and shoot without getting someone alarmed. There are hiking trails all over and people do love to hike here. There are privately owned ranges but it's a big manteinance expense and a bureaucratic nightmere to have them.
We in sweden can only own a gun after going trough a wildlife course that costs up to 1000 dollars. And we can only use hunting guns with 2 shot magasines. For sporting weapons cant "look tactical"
Those laws are pretty much in line with Germany's generally. Since about the time this video got up the restrictions on suppressors had been lifted for hunters in Germany. It makes sense in terms of the craft -- to startle the game as less then possible -- aaaaannd finally somebody thought about the poor hunting doggos that don't wear ear protection. Sad to see a declining rate of hunters in Italy. It's an important task in a centuries old cultural landscape, and it's a source of sublime food.
Animal rights activists have managed to convince so many that hunting is the worse thing possible when instead it is the most ethical way to obtain meat, not having cows and chicken live miserable lives medicated in factories.
The main problem is that the sporting licence has become expensive. So very few young italians,who generally have low incomes,can afford it. For this reason several prolific and dangerous races like boars are becoming a problem,since the hunters are mostly old and too weak to hunt .
I'm a country boy from Virginia and live in Kentucky but I've traveled the world, first went to Italy in 2008? and spent a week in Milano, Balzáno and Lago Garda, folks, Italy is BEAUTIFUL, the people I met were real characters and everyone was riding bicycles that cost more than my truck 😆 I'll definitely be back, maybe even this summer, bongiorno Italy 😆🇺🇸♥️🇮🇹
Great video, as always. Italian laws moderate, by European and many blue states in USA. The overwhelming, vast majority of current and proposed US guns laws are all almost exclusively aimed at the law abiding gun owners. Laws punishing felons with guns, on the books in US, but 95% of cases are dismissed or deferred. Where these laws are strictly enforced murders drop precipitately. Example Mayor Guiliani started enforcing when there were average of 2,200 murders per annum in NYC, within a few years, it dropped to around 350 per annum. Over years, estimates that over 60,000 lives saved, mostly Black and Hispanic . Bloomberg continued program, but now that he's trying to buy US presidency, denounced the felon disarming program, instead focusing on licensing all law abiding gun owners, registering all legal guns, and projects involving mass confiscation (in increments of course, with ugly guns first). BTW in US only 0.02% of gun owners commit gun crimes, the other 99.98% all responsible individuals. 3/4ths of firearm related deaths suicides. Of the murders, 80% gang related. 95% of US homicides are concentrated in 5% of US precinct. While gun ownership wide spread, murders definitely in limited areas.
I may have misunderstood but you were talking about enforcing laws about gun felons, correct? If so, this just speaks volumes how government doesn't understand the real issues. How this would help, I have no idea? How limiting law abiding citizens from owning weapon will help against criminals who use stolen or illegally purchased weapons? I mean, If I bought a shotgun legally with all documents and licenses, I probably won't use it for any crime. If I stole the damned shotgun, that's completely different story.
You are correct. From Federal laws dating from 1934, strengthened in 1938, 1968, 1986 and 1994, it has been a Federal offense for a felon or someone convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence is forbidden possession of a firearm. Additionally, possession of a firearm while in possession of illegal drugs is also a Federal crime. These are clear cut cases. There are also numerous similar state snd local laws. Under the last Presidential administration, these convictions dropped 95%. The charges are generally dismissed, deferred of plea bargained away. There are extremest groups, funded by billionaires, that get prosecutors elected or appointed, that feel crime is a social issue, product of an 'unfair system' thus criminals a 'victim' of this system. Result that felons are 'getting away' with crimes, returned to communities they prey upon and the result is the increase in US homicides since the teens, from 14k in 2014 to 17k in 2019. The members of those groups, and those that fund them, do not live in communities victimized by the situations they've created, often living gated communities with heavily armed private security. Coincidentally, those same activists promote draconian gun laws focused specifically on the 99.98% of US gun owners that never commit crime, as answer to decrease the murder rates their policies have increased. There are many reasons for this. One obvious one is studies in prisons show 85% of felon favor one political party, the same party the activists advocate for. These same activists also advocate to restore voting rights to felons. These elitist activist groups tend to regard law abiding gun owners as crude, ignorant members of masses that 'cling to their bibles and guns' hold them in contempt much as French aristocracy had for their peasant class prior to French Revolution. Hillary Clinton referred to them as 'deploreables' Joe Biden yesterday referred to the as 'bad people'. In Canada, a few years ago, their gun registry that had been present for decades, had not solved a single crime of a registered gun caught in crime. Criminals, even the dumbest of which, won't or can't use a legally aacquired firearm. Same is true in US.
A lot, maybe even the majority, of murders in Italy are domestic, often a husband that kills his wife or ex-wife, and having a gun makes it easier. You may be a law abiding citizen, but everyone has a breaking point.
A woman in Argentina used a pair of pruning shears to cut the penis off her husband who was showing the amateur porn he mad with her to his friends. He bled to death-died. Guess Argentina should have had stricter laws on pruning shears because that made killing much easier. Guy would be alive today if there had been laws in place to keep woman from readily obtaining pruning shear. It was ready access to tuning shear that turn this otherwise harmless woman into a murderer. Did I cover enough cliches?
It would seem Italian laws have a better view on sporting than the US in the US the ATF seems to be able to define what a sporting use is so something like 3 gun matches aren't considered a sport if the rifles have a pistol grip, flash hider and other "NON Sporting features. Question though has there been an increase in laws since the decline of hunters? I wonder if that might be a cause for the decline.
I feel compelled to reply, since legislature of my country (Czech republic) has much in common in Italy - even more so in the future, since EU comissars pressure us into putting restrictrions on magazine capacity. Hunting is declining, because hunters are getting old and dying out. As opposed to US, in much of Europe hunters are organized in many small, traditional, local guilds with either private or leased out ground . You CANNOT hunt by simply obtaining hunting ticket or gun license. You have to have hunting license too. But to get it, you have to be accepted into hunting guild first. However, their function is similar to NGO, not gentlemans club. Members are unpaid and besides hunting do alot of work (feed animals in winter, clear forests of urban waste etc.). They are hard to get into (unless you have already relatives there) and doing so is time and effort intensive. In my country "adept hunter" is required to do one year of unpaid labour for the guild before being allowed to obtain lincense, hunting ticket and potentially membership. On average, hunter spends 70 hours in a forest for every shot animal. So you see, there is little to no sex appeal for millenial generation. On contrary, I would say, that gun laws are getting stricter since hunter numbers are diminishing (and they themselves do little to change that). Together they formed powerful lobby, that protected private ownership rights.
Michal Poláček thank you. I also wonder do European countries have programs for conservation of natural wild game? In the US it was these programs that reintroduced many species. Without hunters taxes and tag fees that probably wouldn’t of happened. For instance my state has recently reintroduced Elk and is preparing for the first season(very limited lottery type drawing for a tag) shame you don’t have the public areas to enjoy hunting. I’ve got tens of thousands of state owned acres a short drive from where I live.
i think the main difference is the percieved reason why a citizen can have a gun: in usa it's all about self defence, home defence etc. while in europe it's mostly hunting and sporting purposes
The laws relaxed a lot throughout the years so it's not the regulations which killed hunting. Once upon a time Italy was a mostly rural country with many farmers and almost everyone had an hunting rifle to keep vermins and predators at bay. In the last decades the number of farmers has steadily declined and so many gave up on their hunting license
I love this channel! Very interesting and enjoyable. You speak English very well. My grandfather could speak Italian, US Army intelligence, fought in Italy but didn't teach me to speak it. Bummer
quick notes: removing the defining markings like the colored cap from toygun (or airsoft, realistic non-shooting replicas etc) that are not unequivocably toys automatically reclassifies the thing as illegal firearm in the eyes of the law. this one is actual law recent judgings made so that using toys or weapon incapable of causing injury (as a propgun with no reciever, an airsoft, a training sword with no edge or even just a gun-looking toy) used for intimidation or coercion on other individuals is considered like an actual undeclared weapon, regardless of how un-weaponlike the thing is. if you use something like you'd use a weapon to commict a crime, you'll be judged like you actually had been using a weapon, but you will NOT be judged like you owned an illegal weapon. as it stands, it has not has been ufficialized yet, but it has already been considered such in the judicial system.
@@saa82vik obviously. but one of the event that sparked the thing was a guy that used a slightly deformed phon to rob a bank, using "it couldn't be armed robbery, since there was no firearm involved" as an actual leval point of contention
The problem is that here having a gun isn't a right written in the constitution. so in theory they could just pass a law making it illegal. In California of NY the gun legislation is pretty shitty, but I assume that they could never totally ban guns
In Italy there isn't a gun worship culture so it's not a problematic issue. Our nutters don't go for guns. That's why the laws are so relaxed about it.
Olmo Ciarlo false, “the right to bear arms shall not be infringed.” Technically CA and NY are violating the second amendment by creating rules in which we must follow to own a firearm.
@@Dycewyfe yeah I understand that. Like it's a shitty situation cause they aren't shaping a system aimed at making gun owning safer, it's just aimed at making gun owning more and more nonsensical and unpractical ( I take that in California it was Regan and the republican who started that). That said, selling gun to civilians will be always legal, even if heavily regulated. Here in Italy they could simply make it illegal to own a gun in ANY way
Problem with Europe is also that you're not allowed to defend yourself, even if a gang broke into my house I'm wouldn't be allowed to fight them off. If they tripped over / injured themselves in anyway whilst breaking in i'd also have to pay the 'victim' damages. It's really screwed up here, they really want you to feel helpless.
@Uncle Eidolf the yearly inspections and the mandatory membership to a gunrange are only required to those that have a self defence lincense; now you can use your firearms if in your house for self defence even when you only have a sporting lincense. Please inform yourself before typing your thoughts.
@@massimilianoequitani7573 Massimiliano, a uno che conosco sono entrati in casa. Lui ha sparato e ne ha ammazzato uno ora si sta rischiando l'omicidio preterintenzionale e il porto d'armi gli è già stato levato
@Uncle Eidolf Again, get your facts in check before posting. No inspections at all. What are you talking about? No mandatory membership to a gun range and no fire testing. If you so please you may never fire a round with any of your guns. Where do you get your nonsense from? As far as self defense goes, the amount of force needs to be proportionate to the threat you're facing. Again, the whole "handing out one's gun to the bad guys" is simply asinine. Geeze...
@@johndoublew3060 cosa significa che sta rischiando l'omicidio preterintenzionale chiunque è innocente fino a prova contraria e in caso di un omicidio è ovvio che ci sia una investigazione per accertare le dinamiche dell'accaduto , se per te esser sotto inchiesta significa rischiare la prigione allora non sai di cosa parli.
Gun laws here in Australia are very inconsistent. We have very silly and in some cases unnecessary restrictions, in Australia its nearly impossible to get semi auto rifles of any kind without a very specific permit that each state only gives several hundred each, however you can own an unlimited amount of hand guns, shotguns and rifles (pump action RIFLES and normal bolt and lever action rifles, yes that's a difference) As well as no limit to amount of ammunition ownership. As stated earlier gun laws are not consistent between states and here are a few examples: NSW (my home state): Each firearm regardless of category (Handguns or rifles) are restricted to a maximum of 10 rounds, but certain guns or certain usage can allow you to get permits for 10+ round Magazines, State requires minimum range attendance each year to keep license. 50cal rifles are available for purchase but not able to be shot on any public shooting range and must be shot on private land. Norther Territory( or NT): No magazine limits for any firearm, normal firearm license for either long arms or handguns are of course required but with that, no magazine restriction. Queensland: Semi-automatic firearm permits are given to landowners providing you have your paperwork regarding land ownership as well as necessary firearm license. No attendance for Longarms of any category, but handgun licenses requires 4(? possibly changed) range attendances to keep licenses. One thing that is consistent is that if you have a firearm license in one state you can shoot and hunt normally in another as well as use that states gun laws. So i COULD go to NT and get a shitload of 30 round stanag mags and plink away with a pump action .308 rifle at the endless hordes of pigs and kangaroos, but in NSW im restricted to a normal 10 round magazine limit, and have to carry 5x or more mags when out in the bush.
@@ross2k220 Kasta is right. The only reason guns were not yet outright banned in most of EU is because laws treat their ownership as privilege. You are not going to get a license without background check, formal testing by officials and laying down some money for paperwork - I guess, getting gun license in CZ or Italy is comparable to getting ATF approved silencer.
Nice video, I was curious regarding the rules in Italy vs here in Estonia. The minimum base license here is for self-defence and protection of property, sports and hunting are seen as additional requirements. You can apply for a firearms license once you have passed the a medical, mental health and criminal record checks and after you have completed at least 16 hours of first aid training. The exam consists of 2 parts, the first a theory exam on Estonian weapons law, practical use scenarios and penalties. The second part of the exam consists of practical safe handing and shooting from a distance of 25 meters. Safe handing and shooting must be repeated for each weapon category (Pistol, Revolver and Rifle) whereas the theory is only taken once. Sports and Hunting licenses require additional exams beyond the standard weapons permit.
@@rebeccafishlock226 nah, you'd only actually get arrested if you've got a large 3D printer setup looking to create a production line of guns, otherwise, should be a-ok
@@rebeccafishlock226 TBH next to no one has been arrested even for the construction of full auto weapons. The nature of gun control is that authorities can only act on people who commit actual violent crimes since if no violence is actually committed, no one would know someone broke gun restrictions. Just a few years ago in LA CA (one of the most heavily gun restricted parts of the US), a guy was busted for selling machine guns he made in his home. He only was busted because he started getting into drug trade IIRC. He was selling for almost a decade an none of what he sold was recovered. Demonstrating how useless gun control is at actually stopping criminals.
@@TheHMSBros I've seen some people who have been arrested for only constructing one. For example a drug raid I was involved with involved these people who were selling marijuana and suspected in robbery in the area. We found a 3D printer that was half way in the process of making the Warfairy lower out of ABS. Now, it is legal to make your own gun in our area, however since these people were felons, we got to stick the weapons charge on them. The weapon charge was not the priority, the drug and robbery was. Had they not dealt in drugs, no one would have been the wiser, or frankly cared.
@@rebeccafishlock226 Yes. One guy got 50 months suspended sentence for 3d printing gun props for cosplaying and trying to sell one. Avoided jail time, but he was indeed arrested.
direi che ha fatto un'ottimo lavoro, ha solo tralasciato alcune cose di: le repliche di armi ad avancarica monocolpo (quindi non gli originali, il che non ha senso) sono di libera vendita come le carabine uguali o sotto i 7,5J dalla polvere detenibile bisogna detrarre quella contenuta nelle munizioni detenute (es. ho 200 munizioni che fanno 1kg, posso detenere un kg di meno di polvere per ricarica) nelle 200 munizioni per pistola in verità rientrano tutti i calibri non consentiti per la caccia (es 5,45x39 (avevo scritto 7,62x39 ma sbagliavo) ecc.) le cartucce per canna liscia sono regolamentate in maniera separata, quelle a palla unica rientrano nelle 1500 idonee all'uso a caccia, quelle con più pallottole (i "pallettoni" o quelle per la caccia ai volatili) mi pare possano essere detenute fino a 1000 senza obbligo di dichiararle
Save for the part about sefl defense (in public) not being a valid reason, I agree. Honestly I wish canada had these laws, but we live next to the US, so laws are only going to tighten up more.
BackyardBallistics, not only is Maurice a great guy but he has a great dog too! When my wife and I come to Italy in 2021, it would be nice to meet you and Maurice. Keep up the great work!
Not too bad, but our laws in the Czech Republic are better :) Many things are similar but we are allowed (with a permit) to conceal carry basically any firearm we own (up to 2 of them at a time and if you can conceal carry a long gun or shotgun, it's actually possible too), without giving any reason and the police cannot deny us conceal carry as long as we meet the legal requirements. All guns are registered, etc, however. Also, violent crime rate is extremely low. No restriction on the amount of ammunition (or guns) we can own but safe storage is required, you can store up to 10 000 of rounds AND 10 guns (short or long) per safe meeting certification requirements, or up to 2 guns and 500 rounds in any steel box. Or unlimited number of guns and ammo stored in a certified safe room. No restrictions on gun caliber, complicated situation with armor piercing and hollow point rounds. AP rounds can be owned in some cases but in limited numbers only, hollow points is OK for long guns and hunting but not allowed for self defense (will be changed in new law). Suppressors are considered restricted (not generally allowed but possible with an exception, will be changed in new law), full auto guns also need a special exception (rare, but possible). Also, no "knife laws" at all, I could "open carry" a katana in Prague if I wanted to, bows, crossbows, airguns (up to 16J) and up to 2 rounds blackpowder guns require 18 years of age to be purchased, no permit required. No magazine capacity limit, will be changed according to the new stupid EU law, but a solution is already prepared so really, no limit...
4:24 - "If you still want more guns..." Yes please, sign me up! :3 Awesome video! It's really interesting to hear about gun laws in other countries, that's cool that Italy has some better laws than some states here in the U.S.!
The funny thing is that here the weapon is respected and is a sport. In US they say is for self defence but they end up shooting echother creating the security problem itself.
Thank God, now anytime an american will say nobody can own weapons in Europe I'll directly link this video instead or writing everything lol. As I've always said, a few things could be improved but as an Italian I totally can't complaint about our laws. Ottimo lavoro come sempre :)
It’s not reasonable. If I wanted to own a pistol I would have to prove the need. (and these permits are very rarely obtained as most people cannot prove the need for owning a pistol.) Switzerland is easier, get the gun license and own what pistol you want.
another good thing, in Italy we have original ak and other military rifles that just got permanently converted to semiauto. They run, quite cheap, a wonderful Russian ak from Izhevsk run for like 800€(903$) (and the licence is not super expensive and generally last for 5 years)
Shoutout from Ukraine , your gun laws sound awesome. Also when I heard about 200 pistol rounds limit and to me it sounds kinda redundant because it’s much more then enough for recreational and sports use. But excluding this it sounds necessary , fair and comprehensive.
Please note that if your request for a license is denied, you CAN appeal against this decision. We do NOT have a "second amendment" BUT our constitution still mandates that any restriction of personal freedom must be justified on a collective basis (for the interest of the whole community) and on a personal one (to prevent a mentally ill guy to access dangerous equipment). If you do not represent a risk for anybody, you cannot be denied to own and/or use a gun.
@@diegoyuiop I think pretty much. But we can use 9x19 ammo. So no special barrels, unless we go to compete across the border. We just got new law that we can use suppressors, so we got that going for us.
Ah, very interesting ! It does indeed seem more reasonable than what we have in France. I hope you won't get hit too hard when/if Italian politicians decide to apply their version of European gun laws. So far interesting exceptions like Finland or Malta still exist. I sincerely hope Italy can remain that way.
We already adopted last year the european union gun laws. We went from 15 and 5 rounds in pistols and rifles to 20 and 10 rounds. Also we went from 6 sporting guns to 12. So for now european gun laws just helped us.
@@bluebanana6753 we really didn't have any change about storage. We just stayed on "don't let children, crazy and thiefs to get them. If they get them it's your fault.". So I have a good safe, but no real legislation order me to have it. I don't really think that the EU said something about it either.
@@bluebanana6753 the safe storage are a ridicolous grey area that boils down to "not have them in the open (unless they are non-firing decorations)" and "have them physically separated to live ammo" as in don't keep them loaded. this didn't prevent idiot from shooting themselves on accident in their homes for no reason, but we're talking of a 5-ish person in a decade range, possibly less up to a couple years ago.
Diego Bianco LoL, I can't believe EU directive actually improved your situation! 😆 Here in Croatia, we didn't have any mag limits before so, bah! But, on the bright side, all of the magazines are still legal, it is only illegal to insert them into a semi-auto, so we didn't have to get rid of anything.
As a firearms owner living in the UK it makes me want to move to Italy where clearly common sense rules. In the UK laws are Draconian and gun crime has increased not decreased as obviously criminals don't care about laws. Law abiding citizens are penalised for no logical reason.
same here, i'm in the uk and i also have an italian citizenship so i'm very tempted to start a collection there or move, especially if they come after more firearms here (box fed shotguns or 22 rimfire semi)
Why the laws in Italy are relatively ok, the main disadvantages are that getting a 10+ round magazine requires a separate permit and that getting a license to carry your weapon loaded for self defense and not hunting is extremely difficult if you are not a jeweler or someone that is an obvious high risk target for criminals. An everyday joe is unlikely to be approved for a carry permit.
Good info and interesting to a UK shooter. We are not allowed pistols, or self loading rifles (except rinfire), but we are allowed silencers. We also don't have a standard limit for quantity of ammo, but there is one printed on our license (which we request). Shotguns are allowed to be self loading, and there is no limit to quantity of ammo which also does not have to be locked up. Our laws are pretty strict compared to Italy I think.
More open than I thought, but I still prefer the laws here in Florida. Class III are subject to federal laws. Other than that almost anything goes. Carry permits are required to have a loaded gun on you, but it's a shall issue system. So unless you have a reason to be banned from having a gun, the state automatically issues you a permit. Thanks for the information. It's interesting to see how other countries deal with firearm ownership.
@@Furiereindulgente This is one of those things that, surprisingly, even the director of the ATF said should not be an NFA item; same with suppressors.
Sadly in my country Greece, you can own a shotgun for hunting purposes and keep it in your home after approval from your local police department. Italy's law is a nice for other countries to copy and apply it. One of our politicians said it in national TV, that we could use the law of Italy when it comes for handguns, weapons etc. I am 100% for gun owning for self defense
I live in argentina, very similar gun laws although the hunting and sporting permit are one which is called “possession” which allows you to possess firearms and transport them in the way you described how firearms are transported with a sporting license. There are no restrictions tu caliber but there are restrictions to gun type. Anything dubbed as a “war weapon” which would be semi automatic carbines that can hold more than 15 rounds I believe, can’t be owned.
You are fortunate indeed. Your laws reflect the requirements of a civilized society. The Draconian Gun Laws here in the UK have practically driven firearms into the hands of the criminal classes.. One thing you said that puzzled me, you said 9mm Luger is banned, why is this so, when everything else is allowed?
@@Gary-Seven-and-Isis-in-1968 it's very hard to find logic in this sort of regulations, they are more often political compromises between two arguing parties. In the case of italy long time ago there was an absolutely nonsensical ban on so called military calibers, and while all calibers were unbanned by the early 90s, the 9x19 remained banned for decades. For what reason though, I'm unaware, I would say just a political standpoint.
At least here in Italy we don't sell guns in a supermarket near the candies or at people without a license *any reference to the USA is purely casual *
Sounds quite similar to our laws in Austria. However Bolt-actions and Shotguns do not require any license here. Regarding semi-autos and handguns you can only have two with a license in the beginning and apply for an extension after a few years. No caliber restriction either and we can have up to 5000 rounds in total at home.
Great! I'm Italian living in the US, but planning to come back. Seems like I can keep my Sig m400. (I wonder what the import process look like). There is one thing that isn't covered by this video, which is the right for the police to come and check if the gun is properly locked. How does that work? Can they come anytime un unannounced?
Italian law is similar, but not much to Polish gun law: - there are 8 "important reasons to have a weapon": self defense, people and property defense (on example you're a bodyguard), hunting, sport, collecting, souvenir (on example your grandpa, that had Mosin Nagant died and in the last will he gave you his weapon), historical reconstruction and training - no limits in amount of guns and ammo available, but police can lenghten the case for the infinity, because you posted an important reason to have a weapon, but you haven't posted a reason, why you need so much (so don't ask for too many guns for sport purposes, normally it'd be around 5 to 10 and for collectors around 20) - it seems, that there are no regulations about magazines, because Poland is the only EU country, that has more important country law than external organisations law and EU directive isn't implemented - actually if you have permission for collecting and/or souvenir purposes you can buy AUTOMATIC weapons, but still no disguised weapons, supressed weapons (you can still go hunting with a supressor) and undetectable by luggage control devices - same as in Italy you can't be addicted to alcohol or other substances, be a criminal (still there's something like obliteration of sentence) or have a mental illness - elaboration is allowed, you can buy ingredients for cartridges, if you have sport, hunting or collecting permission with an European Firearm Card - of course a permission can be revoked, if an owner creates a life-threatening situation or loses a weapon - no rifles and shotguns for slef defense purposes and no handguns for hunters (+ for them a size of a magazine can at most hold 5 rounds) - carrying is considered as any moving a loaded gun (that means having a mag in, even if a bullet isn't loaded to chamber). Still you can have loaded magazines ready to be plugged in a place. You can't carry guns for collecting or souvenir purposes unless you have a permission from Voivodeship police station - you have to store guns in a safe, that fulfills conditions of at least S1 class (no matter what purpose you have), if you have more than 50 guns, you have to store them in a separated room and it also has to be unreachable for unauthorized people. - you don't need a permission for guns in museums, when you're a normal citizen and want to shoot on a shooting range and it give you gun for shooting time, deactivated weapons (it's impossible to shoot with this gun) and guns produced before 1885 and their replicas (they have to be separately loaded, that means no integrated cartridge) - air rifles have to be below 17J to be permissionless. Above that limit we have a pneumatic weapon, that needs pneumatic weapon permission - crossbowsneed a permission
From my understanding the big difference is that Germany makes things VERY difficult to get a gun, be it a hunting or sporting license. Where as the Italians are very easy. Austrians, Czechs, and Swiss seem to make things not too difficult as well.
Is it true you need to have a license for pepper spray and blank guns in Germany? You can get either of those freely in CZ as long as you are 18+. There are no restrictions on batons and knives.
Hai un ottimo accento inglese, e incidentalmente mi hai fatto imparare qualche dettaglio sulla regolamentazione per le armi da fuoco in Italia. Grazie mille, bello!
hunting was a fashion, back in the 80's, like now it's to be no hunting. sport shooting is increasing a lot to compensate. you can buy hunting weapons also if you are not an hunter.
Czech gun laws are the best in the EU, on my opinion. It is also nice nice is the unique high rate of guns carried for self defense in am European country.
Being allowed to carry a firearm for your own protection, letting you choose to have that responsibility, should never be revoked unless you're a criminal.
Not revoked, infringed. The natural right to keep and bear arms is universal to all humans and no government can revoke that right, it can only infringe upon that right.
@@Meton2526 we don't see it that way in Italy, our (1947) constitution doesn't either, and nobody really sees it as an issue. If you have a dangerous job you can ask for a permit. Of course not everyone feels safe in Italy, but we are against the idea that a single random person should decide when it's appropriate to use lethal force.
This isn’t a matter of what is on paper but reality and what is universal. Government that restricts your means of self defense does not your best interests at heart.
@@Meton2526 Natural? Were you born with a gun in your hand? The natural right is being able to live your life without being threatened. If you someone poses a real threat to you, then you can apply to obtain the carry permit.
@Dias06 Definitely not. The point of gun laws is traceability. Cartels don't want the police to know how many guns they actually have, so they resort to smuggling them in.
so you can only have ultra low capacity mags in Italy. standard capacity is usually 30 to 50, not 10. 10 is low capacity. Anything above 100 rounds is high capacity.
@@someoneuppingdudetechnical6320 to protect your hearing. To not bother the neighborhood or animals in the fields. One shouldn't legislate to stop very highly trained professionals doing very difficult crimes. If one has a use for a suppressor in a shady dealing he won't care about getting it in the black market. You see what I mean? I use a suppressor with a friend of mine who has a carbine. There is still noise, it's not like in movies.
@@cyrneco I think there's really no need for them, anyway guns are still loud with suppressors and at the range people use ear protection. You can't bother neighborhoods or animals since you technically can't shoot in your backyard and firing ranges tend to be far from houses or underground to reduce the acoustic pollution.
@@raviolooo3841 we find that it helps. It's absolutely true that they don't remove completely the sound, but the suppressor does a good enough job with the 223 that we don't need ear protection outside. And shooting targets in private land with the small carbine is ok, we just don't want to bother animals and folk about who could get worried. It's a case of a useful tool. It's not question of being necessary strictly speaking, it not necessary either to shoot target for that matter, one just likes it. Suppressors are not a threat to public safety so I don't see why should they be regulated. Guns are and rightly so but suppressors are just accessories who don't create any additional trouble or danger.
I was thinking the same thing. In canada basically anything fun is restricted and gigantic pain in the ass. Handguns are basically banned at this point.
Justin Barylski Not really collecting licenses that's stupid and they are limited to how many rounds they can own. I doubt they can have a 12 gauge pump with 14 inch barrel like we can
@@newman793 actually we can have 14" shotguns and even shorter It only changes the legal classification of the firearm, 14" Is still "hunting firearm" shorter than that like the fabarm stf 12 wich i think Is 11" Is a "common" or "Sporting" firearm and there Is a limitation on the number of guns you can own in this category
People in america: *pumped up kicks plays in schools. People in Italy: *coffin dance medieval version plays at schools, as a kid walks in with a bow. Britain: *aggressive lute music playing as a kid in a full suit of armor rushes into the school swinging a butter knife*
As someone from Australia where we have to go through months of processing, paperwork and get a police inspected gunsafe to be able to purchase to get non-auto/non-semi-auto rifles, usually 5 rounds or under, this sounds insane, but honestly, if it works, then power to you. Edit: forgot the test (which is basic don't look down barrel stuff), the yearly fees and the mandatory visit to a range 6 times a year.
Rules in Poland are quite similar exept you need to be a member of a sport club and pass an exam held by shooting sports union. Sporting license is the reason to have gun permission. To keep the license you need to take part in couple of competitions each year. You get permission for a specific number of weapons but you can extend it within time.There's no limit for ammunition though. Rest is pretty similar.
2022 UPDATE: on the 1st of February of 2022, 9x19 was finally unbanned, so no caliber restrictions are now in place for anything smaller than 50 BMG.
Why was it banned in the first place out of interest? It's surely one of the world's most widely used ammo
@@stukafaust I'm guessing it was some dumb reason like it being the most common round in criminal cases
A government... lessening restrictions?
@@stukafaust Italian here, If I heard it right it was made for fear that in case criminals would steal police pistols/SMGs they couldn't simply buy ammo for them in any gun store
@@Delta92F what about supressors getting unbanned in italy?
Honestly these laws are better than Californian laws
way better.
yup
NYC is even worse bud
Nearly whole Europe (with exception of the UK) has better gun laws as California, sorry to say 🙁
What , you cant carry loaded firearms for self defence in California?
I’m in Northern Ireland. Our laws are very similar. Although we have no caliber restrictions and can hold 1000 rounds of ammo for each caliber gun we possess.
Main difference is semi auto centre fire rifles are banned. Which in my opinion is a nonsense.
We are like Italy and have very little crime involving legally held firearms. However concealed carry is quite common here due to the ongoing paramilitary threat.
thank you very much for sharing, I'm sure many viewers will find this interesting. I did for sure
Are pistols banned in Northern Ireland?
@@thlement7626 Nope, we can even have the likes of the new H&K SP5. It's just centre fire rifles that we can't have.
None of your Business 337 they don’t. It’s down to your honesty really.
I live in Northern Ireland 🇮🇪No pistols aren't banned it's also the only place in U.K u can own a handgun for protection.
I actually became quite curious about Italian gun laws recently. I had to escort two Italians at work recently and we got to talking about firearms. Thanks for the video!
@Slime Hank you are joking ye?
@Slime Hank 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 a meno che non parla di berlusconi ....penso che faccia la guardia del corpo
lololololol
@Slime Hank don't worry ... your fiancée wasn't good at our language either, but now she's learning fast
How much??? I like 3 Italian escorts please 😂🍆 a large cup of orange juice and a honey bun
I,m very glad the Italian Government got rid of the absurd restrictions on "military" Calibers.
They still can't own 9x19 and 5.56 ammunition, but other than that its fine AFAIK.
@@nataneraser well, we can have 5.56 barrel and shoot .223 through them. The real issue is 9x21 that ruined hundred of thousands of surplus historical guns.
@@Furiereindulgente yeah that is very bad (re:surplus guns), didn't know that 5.56 barrels are legal hehe
Diego Bianco is 7.65 Parabelum still popular in Italy?
I'd imagine it has something to do with reserving all production of those calibers for the military, so they'll never have a shortage. I still think its dumb, but that's the most logical reason
Italy is an RPG, you pay for more ammo capacity, you can upgrade your gun storage. and reputation affects these abilities and options.
Can't wait for Fallout set in Italy. We're gonna get the New Roman Republic. More accurate Caesar's Legion lol.
@@McCaroni_SupWe'd get new Mussolini against the Kingdom of Naples and the Papal States.
@@minefoxc4015 That sounds so fucking badass.
Talks about Italian gun laws
Shows NY style pizza
:(
I couldn't waste a proper one 😉
@@Backyard.Ballistics I see you now :D
NY pizzas are made by Italian immigrants
I'm gonna eat the pizza
Argentinian Pizza is the only respectable Pizza
I've never been more unhappy with the UK's gun laws than I am right now, after seeing how good you guys have it.
The gun laws seem better than the ones we have here in Canada! I like the pistols of any length provision. I am a huge fan of pocket pistols and snub nosed revolvers but they are virtually illegal here. Also the 10 and 20 round capacities for rifle and handgun respectively are awesome, here we have only 5 and 10.
Oh they are better. Assult rifles can have up to 29 rounds. You just have to register mags over 10 rounds.
@@Furiereindulgente That is very cool. So do you have a registration certificate for each gun you buy as well? Can you take it somewhere other than an approved range, like out in the countryside?
@@Snubrevolver we have to register each gun we buy and theoretically each ammo (but most police departments just wants the guns and don't really care about ammo). We can't take it to the countryside mostly because we don't have one. Italy is a really densely inhabited country, so there aren't many places to go and shoot without getting someone alarmed. There are hiking trails all over and people do love to hike here. There are privately owned ranges but it's a big manteinance expense and a bureaucratic nightmere to have them.
Not anymore lmao
@ ask a californian or new yorker if he/she can own what they want.
As someone from Arizona, USA, these laws still make me sad.
@Evan Moyer I always need permission to buy a firearm - unless I think I can sneak it past the wife and get it in the safe before she sees it.
Ironically some of these laws are better than my states’ .... The People’s Republic of New York.
@@jbocajs2999 Oh as someone from The Democratic People's Republic of California I can say, welcome comrade!!
We in sweden can only own a gun after going trough a wildlife course that costs up to 1000 dollars. And we can only use hunting guns with 2 shot magasines. For sporting weapons cant "look tactical"
The good old Wild West . Az (almost) too chill , the rest of the US needa catch up .
When you speak Spanish so you can understand the Italian comments
*BIG BRAIN*
Son muy parecidos
When you speak Italian so you can understand Spanish :-)
@@lorenzociliberto9564 🇲🇽 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇮🇹
When you speak portuguese and half understand a lot of things
@@furinick heyy, welcome to the club brother :)
Those laws are pretty much in line with Germany's generally. Since about the time this video got up the restrictions on suppressors had been lifted for hunters in Germany. It makes sense in terms of the craft -- to startle the game as less then possible -- aaaaannd finally somebody thought about the poor hunting doggos that don't wear ear protection.
Sad to see a declining rate of hunters in Italy. It's an important task in a centuries old cultural landscape, and it's a source of sublime food.
Animal rights activists have managed to convince so many that hunting is the worse thing possible when instead it is the most ethical way to obtain meat, not having cows and chicken live miserable lives medicated in factories.
@@mesteme animal rights activist are just too lazy to hunt, kill a chicken in the cage is much easier
I remember slingshot channel did a video on them and they weren't much different. I was very surprised tbh.
The main problem is that the sporting licence has become expensive. So very few young italians,who generally have low incomes,can afford it. For this reason several prolific and dangerous races like boars are becoming a problem,since the hunters are mostly old and too weak to hunt .
I'm a country boy from Virginia and live in Kentucky but I've traveled the world, first went to Italy in 2008? and spent a week in Milano, Balzáno and Lago Garda, folks, Italy is BEAUTIFUL, the people I met were real characters and everyone was riding bicycles that cost more than my truck 😆 I'll definitely be back, maybe even this summer, bongiorno Italy 😆🇺🇸♥️🇮🇹
Great video, as always. Italian laws moderate, by European and many blue states in USA. The overwhelming, vast majority of current and proposed US guns laws are all almost exclusively aimed at the law abiding gun owners. Laws punishing felons with guns, on the books in US, but 95% of cases are dismissed or deferred. Where these laws are strictly enforced murders drop precipitately. Example Mayor Guiliani started enforcing when there were average of 2,200 murders per annum in NYC, within a few years, it dropped to around 350 per annum.
Over years, estimates that over 60,000 lives saved, mostly Black and Hispanic . Bloomberg continued program, but now that he's trying to buy US presidency, denounced the felon disarming program, instead focusing on licensing all law abiding gun owners, registering all legal guns, and projects involving mass confiscation (in increments of course, with ugly guns first).
BTW in US only 0.02% of gun owners commit gun crimes, the other 99.98% all responsible individuals. 3/4ths of firearm related deaths suicides. Of the murders, 80% gang related. 95% of US homicides are concentrated in 5% of US precinct. While gun ownership wide spread, murders definitely in limited areas.
I may have misunderstood but you were talking about enforcing laws about gun felons, correct?
If so, this just speaks volumes how government doesn't understand the real issues. How this would help, I have no idea? How limiting law abiding citizens from owning weapon will help against criminals who use stolen or illegally purchased weapons?
I mean, If I bought a shotgun legally with all documents and licenses, I probably won't use it for any crime.
If I stole the damned shotgun, that's completely different story.
You are correct. From Federal laws dating from 1934, strengthened in 1938, 1968, 1986 and 1994, it has been a Federal offense for a felon or someone convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence is forbidden possession of a firearm. Additionally, possession of a firearm while in possession of illegal drugs is also a Federal crime. These are clear cut cases. There are also numerous similar state snd local laws. Under the last Presidential administration, these convictions dropped 95%.
The charges are generally dismissed, deferred of plea bargained away. There are extremest groups, funded by billionaires, that get prosecutors elected or appointed, that feel crime is a social issue, product of an 'unfair system' thus criminals a 'victim' of this system. Result that felons are 'getting away' with crimes, returned to communities they prey upon and the result is the increase in US homicides since the teens, from 14k in 2014 to 17k in 2019.
The members of those groups, and those that fund them, do not live in communities victimized by the situations they've created, often living gated communities with heavily armed private security.
Coincidentally, those same activists promote draconian gun laws focused specifically on the 99.98% of US gun owners that never commit crime, as answer to decrease the murder rates their policies have increased.
There are many reasons for this. One obvious one is studies in prisons show 85% of felon favor one political party, the same party the activists advocate for. These same activists also advocate to restore voting rights to felons. These elitist activist groups tend to regard law abiding gun owners as crude, ignorant members of masses that 'cling to their bibles and guns' hold them in contempt much as French aristocracy had for their peasant class prior to French Revolution. Hillary Clinton referred to them as 'deploreables' Joe Biden yesterday referred to the as 'bad people'.
In Canada, a few years ago, their gun registry that had been present for decades, had not solved a single crime of a registered gun caught in crime. Criminals, even the dumbest of which, won't or can't use a legally aacquired firearm. Same is true in US.
A lot, maybe even the majority, of murders in Italy are domestic, often a husband that kills his wife or ex-wife, and having a gun makes it easier. You may be a law abiding citizen, but everyone has a breaking point.
A woman in Argentina used a pair of pruning shears to cut the penis off her husband who was showing the amateur porn he mad with her to his friends. He bled to death-died. Guess Argentina should have had stricter laws on pruning shears because that made killing much easier. Guy would be alive today if there had been laws in place to keep woman from readily obtaining pruning shear. It was ready access to tuning shear that turn this otherwise harmless woman into a murderer. Did I cover enough cliches?
Would honestly love some sources for the figures
Im from Finland and our laws are pretty similar execpt we can own suppressors without any extra paperwork or licensing
Our gun laws are way worse.
It would seem Italian laws have a better view on sporting than the US in the US the ATF seems to be able to define what a sporting use is so something like 3 gun matches aren't considered a sport if the rifles have a pistol grip, flash hider and other "NON Sporting features. Question though has there been an increase in laws since the decline of hunters? I wonder if that might be a cause for the decline.
I feel compelled to reply, since legislature of my country (Czech republic) has much in common in Italy - even more so in the future, since EU comissars pressure us into putting restrictrions on magazine capacity.
Hunting is declining, because hunters are getting old and dying out. As opposed to US, in much of Europe hunters are organized in many small, traditional, local guilds with either private or leased out ground .
You CANNOT hunt by simply obtaining hunting ticket or gun license. You have to have hunting license too. But to get it, you have to be accepted into hunting guild first.
However, their function is similar to NGO, not gentlemans club. Members are unpaid and besides hunting do alot of work (feed animals in winter, clear forests of urban waste etc.). They are hard to get into (unless you have already relatives there) and doing so is time and effort intensive. In my country "adept hunter" is required to do one year of unpaid labour for the guild before being allowed to obtain lincense, hunting ticket and potentially membership. On average, hunter spends 70 hours in a forest for every shot animal.
So you see, there is little to no sex appeal for millenial generation.
On contrary, I would say, that gun laws are getting stricter since hunter numbers are diminishing (and they themselves do little to change that). Together they formed powerful lobby, that protected private ownership rights.
Michal Poláček thank you. I also wonder do European countries have programs for conservation of natural wild game? In the US it was these programs that reintroduced many species. Without hunters taxes and tag fees that probably wouldn’t of happened. For instance my state has recently reintroduced Elk and is preparing for the first season(very limited lottery type drawing for a tag) shame you don’t have the public areas to enjoy hunting. I’ve got tens of thousands of state owned acres a short drive from where I live.
i think the main difference is the percieved reason why a citizen can have a gun: in usa it's all about self defence, home defence etc. while in europe it's mostly hunting and sporting purposes
theres a thing called not telling the alphabet gang...................... and as long as your not sus then they shouldnt find out.
The laws relaxed a lot throughout the years so it's not the regulations which killed hunting.
Once upon a time Italy was a mostly rural country with many farmers and almost everyone had an hunting rifle to keep vermins and predators at bay. In the last decades the number of farmers has steadily declined and so many gave up on their hunting license
Why am i even watching this i dont even live in itally and its 3 am
Life is weird
Oh same. I just don't want to wake up for Monday
same and I never even shot a gun
I dont know why but the older gentleman in this video is Awesome! 👍
his monster hog, maybe?
Nowadays in Italy it's very, very rare to find hunters...
I love this channel! Very interesting and enjoyable. You speak English very well. My grandfather could speak Italian, US Army intelligence, fought in Italy but didn't teach me to speak it. Bummer
As an American who doesn't live in states like CA and NY these regulations seem pretty absurd but better than I had assumed Italys would be
Love to italy from russia 🇮🇹🇷🇺
we love you back друг мой ;)
oh mamma mia pizza pasta
@@ludovicopini5003 I see you've learned to speak fluent Italian
From russia with love lol
@@utenteutente9531 I'm italian and i love russia
Just wrote my senior capstone paper on Italian Gun Laws, thank you for introducing me to this issue!!
Okay, that is way more reasonable than I thought it would be! Thanks for the info!
Yes It Is
I love in Italy and of you are okay you can get your permit wothin a month or two
Never have i seen a tube video with so precise and short delivered facts, very impressing.....
quick notes:
removing the defining markings like the colored cap from toygun (or airsoft, realistic non-shooting replicas etc) that are not unequivocably toys automatically reclassifies the thing as illegal firearm in the eyes of the law.
this one is actual law
recent judgings made so that using toys or weapon incapable of causing injury (as a propgun with no reciever, an airsoft, a training sword with no edge or even just a gun-looking toy) used for intimidation or coercion on other individuals is considered like an actual undeclared weapon, regardless of how un-weaponlike the thing is. if you use something like you'd use a weapon to commict a crime, you'll be judged like you actually had been using a weapon, but you will NOT be judged like you owned an illegal weapon.
as it stands, it has not has been ufficialized yet, but it has already been considered such in the judicial system.
serPomiz I think it's the case. But here the point of the law is the use and the intent (I.e.. to commit a crime) not I think the ownership.
@@saa82vik obviously. but one of the event that sparked the thing was a guy that used a slightly deformed phon to rob a bank, using "it couldn't be armed robbery, since there was no firearm involved" as an actual leval point of contention
When European countries have a better 2A than NY and CA lol.
The problem is that here having a gun isn't a right written in the constitution. so in theory they could just pass a law making it illegal.
In California of NY the gun legislation is pretty shitty, but I assume that they could never totally ban guns
In Italy there isn't a gun worship culture so it's not a problematic issue. Our nutters don't go for guns. That's why the laws are so relaxed about it.
Olmo Ciarlo false, “the right to bear arms shall not be infringed.” Technically CA and NY are violating the second amendment by creating rules in which we must follow to own a firearm.
@@Dycewyfe yeah I understand that.
Like it's a shitty situation cause they aren't shaping a system aimed at making gun owning safer, it's just aimed at making gun owning more and more nonsensical and unpractical ( I take that in California it was Regan and the republican who started that).
That said, selling gun to civilians will be always legal, even if heavily regulated.
Here in Italy they could simply make it illegal to own a gun in ANY way
Problem with Europe is also that you're not allowed to defend yourself, even if a gang broke into my house I'm wouldn't be allowed to fight them off. If they tripped over / injured themselves in anyway whilst breaking in i'd also have to pay the 'victim' damages. It's really screwed up here, they really want you to feel helpless.
When Italy is more American than California 😂
lmao
@Uncle Eidolf the yearly inspections and the mandatory membership to a gunrange are only required to those that have a self defence lincense; now you can use your firearms if in your house for self defence even when you only have a sporting lincense. Please inform yourself before typing your thoughts.
@@massimilianoequitani7573 Massimiliano, a uno che conosco sono entrati in casa. Lui ha sparato e ne ha ammazzato uno ora si sta rischiando l'omicidio preterintenzionale e il porto d'armi gli è già stato levato
@Uncle Eidolf Again, get your facts in check before posting. No inspections at all. What are you talking about? No mandatory membership to a gun range and no fire testing. If you so please you may never fire a round with any of your guns. Where do you get your nonsense from? As far as self defense goes, the amount of force needs to be proportionate to the threat you're facing. Again, the whole "handing out one's gun to the bad guys" is simply asinine. Geeze...
@@johndoublew3060 cosa significa che sta rischiando l'omicidio preterintenzionale chiunque è innocente fino a prova contraria e in caso di un omicidio è ovvio che ci sia una investigazione per accertare le dinamiche dell'accaduto , se per te esser sotto inchiesta significa rischiare la prigione allora non sai di cosa parli.
Gun laws here in Australia are very inconsistent. We have very silly and in some cases unnecessary restrictions, in Australia its nearly impossible to get semi auto rifles of any kind without a very specific permit that each state only gives several hundred each, however you can own an unlimited amount of hand guns, shotguns and rifles (pump action RIFLES and normal bolt and lever action rifles, yes that's a difference) As well as no limit to amount of ammunition ownership. As stated earlier gun laws are not consistent between states and here are a few examples:
NSW (my home state): Each firearm regardless of category (Handguns or rifles) are restricted to a maximum of 10 rounds, but certain guns or certain usage can allow you to get permits for 10+ round Magazines, State requires minimum range attendance each year to keep license. 50cal rifles are available for purchase but not able to be shot on any public shooting range and must be shot on private land.
Norther Territory( or NT): No magazine limits for any firearm, normal firearm license for either long arms or handguns are of course required but with that, no magazine restriction.
Queensland: Semi-automatic firearm permits are given to landowners providing you have your paperwork regarding land ownership as well as necessary firearm license. No attendance for Longarms of any category, but handgun licenses requires 4(? possibly changed) range attendances to keep licenses.
One thing that is consistent is that if you have a firearm license in one state you can shoot and hunt normally in another as well as use that states gun laws. So i COULD go to NT and get a shitload of 30 round stanag mags and plink away with a pump action .308 rifle at the endless hordes of pigs and kangaroos, but in NSW im restricted to a normal 10 round magazine limit, and have to carry 5x or more mags when out in the bush.
Better than indonesia for sure, but kinda unnecessary since we can't afford it in the first place
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Laughed so hard lmao
LMAOO same
It's always interesting to get insight on other countries laws regarding firearms. Great video. 👍🏼
Sounds like a lot of hoops to exercise a right but still not as bad as the UK
That's because it's Not a right but a privilege.
@@KastaRules is this a european joke I'm too free to understand?
@@ross2k220 I wish it were a joke!
@@ross2k220 Kasta is right. The only reason guns were not yet outright banned in most of EU is because laws treat their ownership as privilege. You are not going to get a license without background check, formal testing by officials and laying down some money for paperwork - I guess, getting gun license in CZ or Italy is comparable to getting ATF approved silencer.
@@ross2k220 hey atleast we can define the diffrence between a shooting range and a school.
Nice video, I was curious regarding the rules in Italy vs here in Estonia. The minimum base license here is for self-defence and protection of property, sports and hunting are seen as additional requirements. You can apply for a firearms license once you have passed the a medical, mental health and criminal record checks and after you have completed at least 16 hours of first aid training. The exam consists of 2 parts, the first a theory exam on Estonian weapons law, practical use scenarios and penalties. The second part of the exam consists of practical safe handing and shooting from a distance of 25 meters. Safe handing and shooting must be repeated for each weapon category (Pistol, Revolver and Rifle) whereas the theory is only taken once. Sports and Hunting licenses require additional exams beyond the standard weapons permit.
That's interesting, thank you very much for sharing! 😉
These is... the most amazing compromise I've seen.
Maurice reminds me of Bronson in the Death Wish movies. :)
3:20 i have seen 5 seconds of this guy and i already love him
That's Maurice!😂
I live in Canada but yours is insanely better than ours. Never would have expected it, great video.
You can own center fire semi automatic rifles. You can buy way more firearms.
Those laws sounds reasonable, logical, clear and simple. I hope we have such sense in our laws here in Korea
Here in Victoria, Australia, you can be arrested for having a 3D printer digital file (.stl) of a gun.
Has that actually happened yet btw? Been keeping half an eye out from over the border in SA but only half of one.
@@rebeccafishlock226 nah, you'd only actually get arrested if you've got a large 3D printer setup looking to create a production line of guns, otherwise, should be a-ok
@@rebeccafishlock226 TBH next to no one has been arrested even for the construction of full auto weapons. The nature of gun control is that authorities can only act on people who commit actual violent crimes since if no violence is actually committed, no one would know someone broke gun restrictions. Just a few years ago in LA CA (one of the most heavily gun restricted parts of the US), a guy was busted for selling machine guns he made in his home. He only was busted because he started getting into drug trade IIRC. He was selling for almost a decade an none of what he sold was recovered. Demonstrating how useless gun control is at actually stopping criminals.
@@TheHMSBros I've seen some people who have been arrested for only constructing one. For example a drug raid I was involved with involved these people who were selling marijuana and suspected in robbery in the area. We found a 3D printer that was half way in the process of making the Warfairy lower out of ABS. Now, it is legal to make your own gun in our area, however since these people were felons, we got to stick the weapons charge on them. The weapon charge was not the priority, the drug and robbery was. Had they not dealt in drugs, no one would have been the wiser, or frankly cared.
@@rebeccafishlock226 Yes. One guy got 50 months suspended sentence for 3d printing gun props for cosplaying and trying to sell one. Avoided jail time, but he was indeed arrested.
This channel by far is the most information in a short time. I really enjoy these videos
dude i was so surprised how reasonable these laws are awesome video mate
Guardo un video italiano parlato in inglese...
Comunque hai spiegato un po di cose e sei stato MOLTO preciso
+1 iscritto
direi che ha fatto un'ottimo lavoro, ha solo tralasciato alcune cose di:
le repliche di armi ad avancarica monocolpo (quindi non gli originali, il che non ha senso) sono di libera vendita come le carabine uguali o sotto i 7,5J
dalla polvere detenibile bisogna detrarre quella contenuta nelle munizioni detenute (es. ho 200 munizioni che fanno 1kg, posso detenere un kg di meno di polvere per ricarica)
nelle 200 munizioni per pistola in verità rientrano tutti i calibri non consentiti per la caccia (es 5,45x39 (avevo scritto 7,62x39 ma sbagliavo) ecc.)
le cartucce per canna liscia sono regolamentate in maniera separata, quelle a palla unica rientrano nelle 1500 idonee all'uso a caccia, quelle con più pallottole (i "pallettoni" o quelle per la caccia ai volatili) mi pare possano essere detenute fino a 1000 senza obbligo di dichiararle
This is... Actually fairly reasonable. I wish in the USA they were aiming more for something like this than banning scary features.
Save for the part about sefl defense (in public) not being a valid reason, I agree.
Honestly I wish canada had these laws, but we live next to the US, so laws are only going to tighten up more.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from us cats in Michigan USA... :)
Thank you very much, really appreciate it 🙂 merrychristmas to you as well!
BackyardBallistics, not only is Maurice a great guy but he has a great dog too! When my wife and I come to Italy in 2021, it would be nice to meet you and Maurice. Keep up the great work!
we will be there my friend!
Very interesting. Thanks for uploading this in English. UK gun laws much much tougher.
Not too bad, but our laws in the Czech Republic are better :) Many things are similar but we are allowed (with a permit) to conceal carry basically any firearm we own (up to 2 of them at a time and if you can conceal carry a long gun or shotgun, it's actually possible too), without giving any reason and the police cannot deny us conceal carry as long as we meet the legal requirements. All guns are registered, etc, however. Also, violent crime rate is extremely low.
No restriction on the amount of ammunition (or guns) we can own but safe storage is required, you can store up to 10 000 of rounds AND 10 guns (short or long) per safe meeting certification requirements, or up to 2 guns and 500 rounds in any steel box. Or unlimited number of guns and ammo stored in a certified safe room.
No restrictions on gun caliber, complicated situation with armor piercing and hollow point rounds. AP rounds can be owned in some cases but in limited numbers only, hollow points is OK for long guns and hunting but not allowed for self defense (will be changed in new law). Suppressors are considered restricted (not generally allowed but possible with an exception, will be changed in new law), full auto guns also need a special exception (rare, but possible).
Also, no "knife laws" at all, I could "open carry" a katana in Prague if I wanted to, bows, crossbows, airguns (up to 16J) and up to 2 rounds blackpowder guns require 18 years of age to be purchased, no permit required. No magazine capacity limit, will be changed according to the new stupid EU law, but a solution is already prepared so really, no limit...
I'll get there if things go down the shithole here.
@@Furiereindulgente If it does go really bad, here is a good solution also from my country: ua-cam.com/video/RLIrV2UJ0oI/v-deo.html
4:24 - "If you still want more guns..."
Yes please, sign me up! :3
Awesome video! It's really interesting to hear about gun laws in other countries, that's cool that Italy has some better laws than some states here in the U.S.!
One more thing to like about Italy 👍
The funny thing is that here the weapon is respected and is a sport.
In US they say is for self defence but they end up shooting echother creating the security problem itself.
Sure but it's also worth noting the US doesn't really have a true gun culture either. Just gun obsession and paranoia.
Thank God, now anytime an american will say nobody can own weapons in Europe I'll directly link this video instead or writing everything lol. As I've always said, a few things could be improved but as an Italian I totally can't complaint about our laws. Ottimo lavoro come sempre :)
If your natural right to carry a ready to use firearm is being infringed upon, it's not a weapon, it's a toy / leisure device.
@@Meton2526 no, you can still use it at home
Surprisingly reasonable gun laws
It’s not reasonable. If I wanted to own a pistol I would have to prove the need. (and these permits are very rarely obtained as most people cannot prove the need for owning a pistol.) Switzerland is easier, get the gun license and own what pistol you want.
Purtroppo il 9x21 ha rovinato un sacco di pezzi da collezione (luger, p38, mab etc....)
Se non sbaglio il mab usava una versione speciale del 9mm con il 20% di polvere in più
Si ma dimensionalmente identico al 9 luger quindi devono essere ricalibrati in 9x21
Quando limi il proiettile così è a norma
Le armi in 9x19 possono essere detenute, e' il munizionamento che non puó essere acquistato
@@niadebesis565 non proprio, allo stato attuale si possono detenere armi lunghe in 9x19 e di conseguenza le munizioni si possono comprare.
Thanks for the informative video! It sounds like Italians have more freedom than a lotta other Europeans. Cheers from Oregon!🍻
another good thing, in Italy we have original ak and other military rifles that just got permanently converted to semiauto. They run, quite cheap, a wonderful Russian ak from Izhevsk run for like 800€(903$) (and the licence is not super expensive and generally last for 5 years)
Che bello vedere Maurizio, spero che vada tutto bene. Adoro i tuoi video, congratulazioni veramente ti meriteresti molti più spettatori
idk why the youtube algoritm lead me here, but i am glad.
Shoutout from Ukraine , your gun laws sound awesome.
Also when I heard about 200 pistol rounds limit and to me it sounds kinda redundant because it’s much more then enough for recreational and sports use. But excluding this it sounds necessary , fair and comprehensive.
These are the most sensible gun laws I’ve ever heard of!
Naa, with these laws you are practically banned from concealed carry
@@AgustinBernardo still it’s better than the UK, which is a low bar I know.
@@Solidsnake0208 almost everything is better than the UK, you can't even have a pepper spray on you
Please note that if your request for a license is denied, you CAN appeal against this decision. We do NOT have a "second amendment" BUT our constitution still mandates that any restriction of personal freedom must be justified on a collective basis (for the interest of the whole community) and on a personal one (to prevent a mentally ill guy to access dangerous equipment). If you do not represent a risk for anybody, you cannot be denied to own and/or use a gun.
Love from neighbouring country Slovenia. I hate getting 9x21 cases stuck in my luger set up Dillon :). I really enjoy your channel. Thank you!
How are laws there? Like here in Italy?
@@diegoyuiop I think pretty much. But we can use 9x19 ammo. So no special barrels, unless we go to compete across the border. We just got new law that we can use suppressors, so we got that going for us.
Ah, very interesting !
It does indeed seem more reasonable than what we have in France.
I hope you won't get hit too hard when/if Italian politicians decide to apply their version of European gun laws.
So far interesting exceptions like Finland or Malta still exist.
I sincerely hope Italy can remain that way.
We already adopted last year the european union gun laws. We went from 15 and 5 rounds in pistols and rifles to 20 and 10 rounds. Also we went from 6 sporting guns to 12.
So for now european gun laws just helped us.
How was the safe storage recurement met? Its says atleast ss/ssf3492.
@@bluebanana6753 we really didn't have any change about storage. We just stayed on "don't let children, crazy and thiefs to get them. If they get them it's your fault.". So I have a good safe, but no real legislation order me to have it.
I don't really think that the EU said something about it either.
@@bluebanana6753 the safe storage are a ridicolous grey area that boils down to "not have them in the open (unless they are non-firing decorations)" and "have them physically separated to live ammo" as in don't keep them loaded.
this didn't prevent idiot from shooting themselves on accident in their homes for no reason, but we're talking of a 5-ish person in a decade range, possibly less up to a couple years ago.
Diego Bianco LoL, I can't believe EU directive actually improved your situation! 😆
Here in Croatia, we didn't have any mag limits before so, bah! But, on the bright side, all of the magazines are still legal, it is only illegal to insert them into a semi-auto, so we didn't have to get rid of anything.
Thank you for this. I am curious about other country's firearm laws.
you are very welcome!
As a firearms owner living in the UK it makes me want to move to Italy where clearly common sense rules. In the UK laws are Draconian and gun crime has increased not decreased as obviously criminals don't care about laws. Law abiding citizens are penalised for no logical reason.
same here, i'm in the uk and i also have an italian citizenship so i'm very tempted to start a collection there or move, especially if they come after more firearms here (box fed shotguns or 22 rimfire semi)
Why are gun laws not uniform across the EU?
@@kcgunesq Because it will be a mess
Why the laws in Italy are relatively ok, the main disadvantages are that getting a 10+ round magazine requires a separate permit and that getting a license to carry your weapon loaded for self defense and not hunting is extremely difficult if you are not a jeweler or someone that is an obvious high risk target for criminals. An everyday joe is unlikely to be approved for a carry permit.
Good info and interesting to a UK shooter. We are not allowed pistols, or self loading rifles (except rinfire), but we are allowed silencers. We also don't have a standard limit for quantity of ammo, but there is one printed on our license (which we request). Shotguns are allowed to be self loading, and there is no limit to quantity of ammo which also does not have to be locked up. Our laws are pretty strict compared to Italy I think.
More open than I thought, but I still prefer the laws here in Florida. Class III are subject to federal laws. Other than that almost anything goes.
Carry permits are required to have a loaded gun on you, but it's a shall issue system. So unless you have a reason to be banned from having a gun, the state automatically issues you a permit.
Thanks for the information. It's interesting to see how other countries deal with firearm ownership.
We can have SBRs anytime, No extra taxes. Do you want to know more?
@@Furiereindulgente This is one of those things that, surprisingly, even the director of the ATF said should not be an NFA item; same with suppressors.
Sadly in my country Greece, you can own a shotgun for hunting purposes and keep it in your home after approval from your local police department. Italy's law is a nice for other countries to copy and apply it. One of our politicians said it in national TV, that we could use the law of Italy when it comes for handguns, weapons etc. I am 100% for gun owning for self defense
Here on italy this year senator Candura (Lega nord) is trying to pass a bill legalizing the 9x19
Sicuro?
@@matteograssi5898 si ma non c'è riuscito
@@notme1998 Ci avrei scommesso
I live in argentina, very similar gun laws although the hunting and sporting permit are one which is called “possession” which allows you to possess firearms and transport them in the way you described how firearms are transported with a sporting license. There are no restrictions tu caliber but there are restrictions to gun type. Anything dubbed as a “war weapon” which would be semi automatic carbines that can hold more than 15 rounds I believe, can’t be owned.
Thank you very much. I've waited for this.
You are fortunate indeed.
Your laws reflect the requirements of a civilized society.
The Draconian Gun Laws here in the UK have practically
driven firearms into the hands of the criminal classes..
One thing you said that puzzled me, you said 9mm Luger
is banned, why is this so, when everything else is allowed?
Actually 9x19 is no longer banned since the 1st of february of 2022 (ten days ago)
@@Backyard.Ballistics So why was that particular calibre so unfairly picked on?
@@Gary-Seven-and-Isis-in-1968 it's very hard to find logic in this sort of regulations, they are more often political compromises between two arguing parties. In the case of italy long time ago there was an absolutely nonsensical ban on so called military calibers, and while all calibers were unbanned by the early 90s, the 9x19 remained banned for decades. For what reason though, I'm unaware, I would say just a political standpoint.
I've lived in Italy for 4 years and never knew this lol. It looked too hard to get it online
these are very reasonable, i wish Australia had these laws...
What a great thumbnail. It definitely got me interested.
At least here in Italy we don't sell guns in a supermarket near the candies or at people without a license *any reference to the USA is purely casual *
It disturbs me to see a handgun rest on top of a greasy pizza
Grease prevents rust
Screw these gun laws I'm in the usa and I thought I had it bad...
Good video Sir! Surprisingly, slightly worse gun laws than Polish
Sounds quite similar to our laws in Austria. However Bolt-actions and Shotguns do not require any license here. Regarding semi-autos and handguns you can only have two with a license in the beginning and apply for an extension after a few years. No caliber restriction either and we can have up to 5000 rounds in total at home.
thanks for sharing. It was interesting for me an it'll certainly be for others
Im filipino. We can own any gun as long as its not crew operated. There is also license restriction. In other words, as much as one can afford
Great! I'm Italian living in the US, but planning to come back. Seems like I can keep my Sig m400. (I wonder what the import process look like).
There is one thing that isn't covered by this video, which is the right for the police to come and check if the gun is properly locked. How does that work? Can they come anytime un unannounced?
Never seen my dad getting checked in 25 years but idk
Italian law is similar, but not much to Polish gun law:
- there are 8 "important reasons to have a weapon": self defense, people and property defense (on example you're a bodyguard), hunting, sport, collecting, souvenir (on example your grandpa, that had Mosin Nagant died and in the last will he gave you his weapon), historical reconstruction and training
- no limits in amount of guns and ammo available, but police can lenghten the case for the infinity, because you posted an important reason to have a weapon, but you haven't posted a reason, why you need so much (so don't ask for too many guns for sport purposes, normally it'd be around 5 to 10 and for collectors around 20)
- it seems, that there are no regulations about magazines, because Poland is the only EU country, that has more important country law than external organisations law and EU directive isn't implemented
- actually if you have permission for collecting and/or souvenir purposes you can buy AUTOMATIC weapons, but still no disguised weapons, supressed weapons (you can still go hunting with a supressor) and undetectable by luggage control devices
- same as in Italy you can't be addicted to alcohol or other substances, be a criminal (still there's something like obliteration of sentence) or have a mental illness
- elaboration is allowed, you can buy ingredients for cartridges, if you have sport, hunting or collecting permission with an European Firearm Card
- of course a permission can be revoked, if an owner creates a life-threatening situation or loses a weapon
- no rifles and shotguns for slef defense purposes and no handguns for hunters (+ for them a size of a magazine can at most hold 5 rounds)
- carrying is considered as any moving a loaded gun (that means having a mag in, even if a bullet isn't loaded to chamber). Still you can have loaded magazines ready to be plugged in a place. You can't carry guns for collecting or souvenir purposes unless you have a permission from Voivodeship police station
- you have to store guns in a safe, that fulfills conditions of at least S1 class (no matter what purpose you have), if you have more than 50 guns, you have to store them in a separated room and it also has to be unreachable for unauthorized people.
- you don't need a permission for guns in museums, when you're a normal citizen and want to shoot on a shooting range and it give you gun for shooting time, deactivated weapons (it's impossible to shoot with this gun) and guns produced before 1885 and their replicas (they have to be separately loaded, that means no integrated cartridge)
- air rifles have to be below 17J to be permissionless. Above that limit we have a pneumatic weapon, that needs pneumatic weapon permission
- crossbowsneed a permission
Sounds similar to the gun laws we have here in Germany 😁
From my understanding the big difference is that Germany makes things VERY difficult to get a gun, be it a hunting or sporting license. Where as the Italians are very easy. Austrians, Czechs, and Swiss seem to make things not too difficult as well.
wie einfach ist es in Deutschland eine Waffenbesitzkarte zu bekommen?
@@edweiser63 Exactly
Is it true you need to have a license for pepper spray and blank guns in Germany?
You can get either of those freely in CZ as long as you are 18+. There are no restrictions on batons and knives.
@@OkurkaBinLadin Even in Italy you don't need license for blank guns, air guns and sprays
Hai un ottimo accento inglese, e incidentalmente mi hai fatto imparare qualche dettaglio sulla regolamentazione per le armi da fuoco in Italia. Grazie mille, bello!
Very informative..... I learned a lot . Thanks for posting ✌🏼
Just here after seeing storefront Italians.
Great info, thank you. Why do you think that the number of Italian hunters has decreased steadily since 1980?
hunting was a fashion, back in the 80's, like now it's to be no hunting. sport shooting is increasing a lot to compensate. you can buy hunting weapons also if you are not an hunter.
True. I think also urbanization, stigma, more regulations and sheer cost play a role.
Viva la Italia , fratello
Nice thumbnail! I just bought an m57 3 days ago! Great video as always
Pretty comparable with Canada except for our distinction between non-restricted and restricted classes. Thanks for the run-down!
Czech gun laws are the best in the EU, on my opinion.
It is also nice nice is the unique high rate of guns carried for self defense in am European country.
I agree
Unfortunately thanks to the EU they are going to get worse.
@@TheDeadfast eeh I know man
@@TheDeadfast Would be better off leaving
Being allowed to carry a firearm for your own protection, letting you choose to have that responsibility, should never be revoked unless you're a criminal.
Not revoked, infringed. The natural right to keep and bear arms is universal to all humans and no government can revoke that right, it can only infringe upon that right.
@@Meton2526 we don't see it that way in Italy, our (1947) constitution doesn't either, and nobody really sees it as an issue.
If you have a dangerous job you can ask for a permit.
Of course not everyone feels safe in Italy, but we are against the idea that a single random person should decide when it's appropriate to use lethal force.
This isn’t a matter of what is on paper but reality and what is universal. Government that restricts your means of self defense does not your best interests at heart.
@@lastswordfighter unless you have a problem with violence in your country this is fair...
@@Meton2526 Natural? Were you born with a gun in your hand? The natural right is being able to live your life without being threatened. If you someone poses a real threat to you, then you can apply to obtain the carry permit.
California has stricter gun laws. God I hate it here
I think that's because we italians owns way less guns than you, so gun crime is pratically nonexistent. Less guns=less crime=better laws
@@francescosirotti8178 true because in Italy very few people own guns we don't have an important gun culture.
Rip
@Dias06
Definitely not. The point of gun laws is traceability. Cartels don't want the police to know how many guns they actually have, so they resort to smuggling them in.
@@francescosirotti8178 Thats not true. More guns doesnt not equal more crime. New study came out debunking that
so you can only have ultra low capacity mags in Italy. standard capacity is usually 30 to 50, not 10. 10 is low capacity.
Anything above 100 rounds is high capacity.
Great and humorous video. Keep it up
Italian gun laws are very reasonable. The only part a bit silly is the suppressors limitations.
Well I mean it's not silly.
Why would you need a suppressor anyway if you're not doing anything "shady" lmao
@@someoneuppingdudetechnical6320 to protect your hearing. To not bother the neighborhood or animals in the fields. One shouldn't legislate to stop very highly trained professionals doing very difficult crimes. If one has a use for a suppressor in a shady dealing he won't care about getting it in the black market. You see what I mean? I use a suppressor with a friend of mine who has a carbine. There is still noise, it's not like in movies.
@@cyrneco I think there's really no need for them, anyway guns are still loud with suppressors and at the range people use ear protection. You can't bother neighborhoods or animals since you technically can't shoot in your backyard and firing ranges tend to be far from houses or underground to reduce the acoustic pollution.
@@raviolooo3841 we find that it helps. It's absolutely true that they don't remove completely the sound, but the suppressor does a good enough job with the 223 that we don't need ear protection outside. And shooting targets in private land with the small carbine is ok, we just don't want to bother animals and folk about who could get worried. It's a case of a useful tool. It's not question of being necessary strictly speaking, it not necessary either to shoot target for that matter, one just likes it. Suppressors are not a threat to public safety so I don't see why should they be regulated. Guns are and rightly so but suppressors are just accessories who don't create any additional trouble or danger.
@@someoneuppingdudetechnical6320 way more reasons than you there are shady things to do.
Wow, you have better firearms laws that we do in Canada
I was thinking the same thing. In canada basically anything fun is restricted and gigantic pain in the ass. Handguns are basically banned at this point.
Justin Barylski Not really collecting licenses that's stupid and they are limited to how many rounds they can own. I doubt they can have a 12 gauge pump with 14 inch barrel like we can
since a couple of months almost every country has better firearms than libtard runned canada
@@newman793 actually we can have 14" shotguns and even shorter It only changes the legal classification of the firearm, 14" Is still "hunting firearm" shorter than that like the fabarm stf 12 wich i think Is 11" Is a "common" or "Sporting" firearm and there Is a limitation on the number of guns you can own in this category
@@newman793 no they can own one
People in america: *pumped up kicks plays in schools. People in Italy: *coffin dance medieval version plays at schools, as a kid walks in with a bow. Britain: *aggressive lute music playing as a kid in a full suit of armor rushes into the school swinging a butter knife*
As someone from Australia where we have to go through months of processing, paperwork and get a police inspected gunsafe to be able to purchase to get non-auto/non-semi-auto rifles, usually 5 rounds or under, this sounds insane, but honestly, if it works, then power to you.
Edit: forgot the test (which is basic don't look down barrel stuff), the yearly fees and the mandatory visit to a range 6 times a year.
Yeah they just suck in Australia don't they? 😅
This sounds insane as in too permissive? Or insane as good?
Also we do have a test, before getting a license there's a course and shooting exam
Rules in Poland are quite similar exept you need to be a member of a sport club and pass an exam held by shooting sports union. Sporting license is the reason to have gun permission. To keep the license you need to take part in couple of competitions each year. You get permission for a specific number of weapons but you can extend it within time.There's no limit for ammunition though. Rest is pretty similar.