Saudi Arabia has announced new conditions for obtaining a license to carry or acquire individual weapons or hunting weapons.
Announced on Monday by the Saudi Ministry of Interior via a post on Twitter, a series of updated conditions were listed.
As per Saudi’s Ministry of Interior General Department of Weapons and Explosives:
Conditions
- Must be a Saudi national
- Applicant age must be above 22 years
- Criminal record must be clean
- Must be free from any infirmity or physical, nervous or mental illness that hampers the use of arms according to the prepared form
- Must have no security orders or restrictions
- The weapon must have no modifications
Procedures
- A licensee provides a statement of names of persons wishing to purchase handguns to public security (weapons, disable explosives).
- After fulfilling the required conditions, the statement is re-sent to the licensee in order to complete procedures and to provide for public security, a list of weapons is to be submitted to the concerned authority for approval.
- The competent Authority shall complete approval procedures and provide a copy of such for the public security (department of weapons and explosives) in order to inform the licensee.
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