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The number of citizens obtaining new licenses for the use and possession of weapons increased by almost 31% in 2017 compared to 2016. Last year, 1,683 new licenses were issued were issued, 397 more than the previous year. According to the Jornal de Notícias, which quotes the figures of the PSP, more than 500 000 Portuguese are allowed to use weapons: about 300 000 can have a firearm at home – life permits obtained between 1949 and 2006 – and about 227,000 are allowed to have weapons, whether for hunting, personal defense, film fairs and theaters, among others.
Portuguese with weapons license, 167,000 have hunting permits, it allows to move with the arms by the country, and does not arrive at nine thousand the number of those who can leave with arms for public spaces.
The PSP data reveal, already, that more weapons were destroyed until July of this year last year: as of July 9, nearly 30,000 weapons were destroyed (in 2017, 27,535). What also increased was the number of weapons found by the PSP. During the first five months of the year, 1,073 weapons were found, while last year they were 218.
More: until May, the PSP had 265 weapons lost – in 2017, 306 – and 3,812 seizures, more than half of the weapons confiscated in 2017 (6,557), thanks to the increase in the number of "inspection actions", said the director of Department of Weapons and Explosives, Superintendent Pedro Moura, JN
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