Cabo Verde. 2013 ‘Table II: Weapon Categories.’ Cabo Verde Law 31/VIII/2013; Annex 1 (Table II). Praia: Cabo Verde. 22 May

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QUADRO II - Classifi cação das armas, munições e outros acessórios, a que se refere o n.º 1 do artigo 4.º

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[Translation by GunPolicy.org]

TABLE II - Classification of weapons, ammunition and other accessories, referred to in paragraph 1 of article 4.

Class - type of weapons

1. Class A Weapons - Weapons, devices and materials, whose authorizations, licenses or manifests for their manufacture, assembly, repair, import, export, transfer, storage, circulation, trade, acquisition, transfer, detention, custody, security, trafficking, use and size, are not subject to concession under the terms of this statute and its regulations, including:
a) Weapons of war and any weapons and ammunition in use or intended for the Armed Forces;
b) Cold weapons or firearms belonging to the Armed Forces, public security forces and services and other public bodies and services, in the prevention and fight against crime, as well as the respective ammunition, except for the weapon of estimated value, which the holder justify its possession
c) Rifles or rifles with rifled barrels or rifled barrels caliber greater than 6 mm and circular percussion;
d) Firearms, the barrel of which has been cut and weapons originally not prohibited, whose manufacturing characteristics have been substantially modified;
e) Precision rifles or carbines, which can be easily dismantled into small pieces or main mechanisms, as well as portable cases for their transport;
f) White or firearms in disguise or other instruments without defined application, which can be used as a lethal weapon of aggression, not justifying the holder's possession;
(…)
i) Automatic firearms;
(…)
r) Transformed or modified firearms;
s) Firearms manufactured or assembled, in whole or in part, without authorization;
t) Handcrafted firearms of any caliber, characteristics or modality;
u) Reproductions of firearms and alarm weapons;
v) Rifles and carbines that can be easily dismantled into small components with a view to their concealment;
w) Shotguns whose barrel length is less than 46 cm;
x) Ammunition with piercing, explosive, incendiary, tracer or disintegrating bullets;
(…)
bb) Any firearms, light or heavy, especially used in the country or abroad for exclusively military purposes.

2. Class B Weapons - Short repeating or semi-automatic firearms.

3. Class B1 Weapons - Short repeating or semi-automatic firearms, namely 6.35mm or .25 Auto caliber pistols and revolvers with a caliber called .32 S&W Long and .32 H&R Magnum, subject to regulation and licensing, under the terms of this law.

4. Class C Weapons -
a) Semi-automatic, repeating or single-shot long firearms, with a rifled barrel;
b) Semi-automatic, repeating or single-shot long firearms with two or more barrels, if one of them has a rifled barrel;
c) Long semi-automatic or repeating firearms, with a smooth barrel, which does not exceed 60 cm;
d) Shot-to-shot short firearms only capable of firing central percussion ammunition;
e) Firearms with a caliber of up to 6mm or .22 only capable of firing rimfire ammunition
f) Replicas of firearms, when used for sport shooting;
g) Compressed air guns with a caliber greater than 5.5 mm or whose barrel is greater than 30 cm.

5. Class D Weapons -
a) Semi-automatic or repeating long firearms, with a smooth barrel with a length greater than 60 cm;
b) Semi-automatic, repeating or single-shot firearms with a rifled barrel with a length of more than 60 cm, only capable of firing ammunition from the smooth-bore barrel

6. Class E Weapons -
a) Defense gas aerosols whose active ingredient is capsaicin or capsicum oleoresin (pepper gas);
b) Electric weapons up to 200,000v, with safety mechanisms;
c) Firearms and their ammunition, of industrial production, only capable of firing non-metallic bullets, originally designed to eliminate any possibility of lethal aggression and which have merited approval by the National Directorate of the National Police

7. Class F Weapons -
a) Clubs, sabers and other bladed weapons traditionally intended for martial arts;
b) Replicas of firearms when intended for collection;
c) Firearms when intended for collection;
d) Unusable firearms.

8. Class G Weapons -
a) Veterinary weapons;
b) The signal weapons;
c) Cable-throwing weapons;
d) Sports compressed air weapons;
e) Airsoft guns, provided they are painted in fluorescent yellow or red;
f) Recreational compressed air gun.

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