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Latvia. 2019 ‘Sections 87.’ Law on the Handling of Weapons; Section 87. Riga: Latvia. 10 April
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Section 87. Uniform Recording of Weapons and Their Essential Components
(1) Firearms, their essential components and ammunition, high-energy pneumatic weapons, gas weapons and signal weapons, firearms converted into salute weapons (acoustic weapons), deactivated firearms, destroyed firearms of natural persons and legal persons of Latvia, of State and local government authorities (except for the National Armed Forces and State security institutions) and the persons to whom the State Police has issued authorisations for weapons, as well as the suppliers of firearms and their essential components shall be registered in the Register of Weapons.
(2) The holder and manager of the Register of Weapons shall be the Information Centre of the Ministry of the Interior.
(3) The Information Centre of the Ministry of the Interior shall delete the information included in the Register of Weapons regarding firearms and their essential components from the Register when 30 years have passed from the day of destruction of firearms and their essential components.
(4) The amount of the information to be included in the Register of Weapons, the procedures for the inclusion, use, and deletion thereof, as well as the authorities to be granted with access to the information included in the abovementioned Register shall be determined by the Cabinet.
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