Thanks guys!
Jason, if you ever decide to come to Argentina, let me know!
In 2000 I visited Wyoming and in the last 4 years I went to Texas 4 times to the Houston Rodeo, but was almost all work no fun (not really, I had a great time at the International Room
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I'm my first trip to Texas I was invited to a ranch and was able to try some "black guns" that here are complicated.
Gun laws in Argentina
Sixgun, to own guns, we need to get a license from the
ANMaC (National Agency of Controled Materials), the
CLU (Legit User Credential), valid for 5 years. To get a licence, you need a certificate of "suitability" or "proficiency" in handling guns, a doctor's certificate that you are ok (mental and physically) and you have to show that you have a legal income of some sort.
When you get your license you are allowed up to 9 guns (a reloading press counts as one), but it's not complicated to move the next category that is between 10 and 49 (there are some storage and security requirements).
Guns.
You can buy Shotguns, rifles, pistols, and revolvers.
Handguns: up to 44 Magnum. For bigger calibers like .454 Casull, .500 Smith and Wesson, .50 Action Express and, who knows why, FN's 5,7mm , you need a special permit, very hard to get.
Rifles: .50 BMG is out. Below that, no restrictions I think. Except, semiautomatic rifles with detachable magazines. For those, you need the same permit than the .454 Casull. BUT... There's a catch... The restriction says "semiauto rifles with detachable magazines derived from military rifles". So you need that permit for the FSL or Semiauto FALs (used to be very cheap 25 years ago and I can't believe I didn't bought one by that time...), AK47, AR-15, M-14...
But you don't need the special permit for an SKS, a Garand or, the one I bought last year, the Ruger PC Carbine. At least for the moment.
The
CLU (Legit User Credential) allows you to have, use and transport guns, but not to Carry.
Carry permits are very complicated to get, expensive and you have to renew it every year.
For every gun you get a card
(Tenencia).
And for every caliber (unless you have a reloading press declared) you get a "ration card"
(tarjeta de consumo) were there are registered your ammo purchases. Once filled, you need to purchase a new card (usd 3). I think we are allowed 1000 rounds per caliber... But when available, you could buy the 3000 bullets bucket of .22s
When you buy a gun, the gunshop fulfills the paperwork online, print it and make you sign it. Then they send it to the Register (or you can do it yourself, maybe faster) and it used to take 2 to 4 weeks to get back the card of the gun, and the ammo card. There was a "urgent" price and you could get the card in 2 days (if you go to the central office in Buenos Aires). Today, the waiting period is uncertain, demanding 2-4-6 months), if you are lucky to get an appointment. Almost everyone is doing their paperwork with the gunshops because is hard to get an appointment.
Legit Users (
LU, people with a valid credential) can loan guns to other
LU. With the gun must go the
Tenencia.
In a private sell, buyer and seller must go to the
ANMaC or a gunshop and do the same paperwork.
So, even if we have a lot of paperwork to do every five years, and it isn't cheap, at least we don't have the restrictions than several countries have.
Suppressors are forbidden.
Hopefully that's a small picture of the gun laws in Argentina.
Saludos, Enrique
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