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Security: More thorough checks for firearm licences to stop attempts to circumvent refusals from next year

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The Commission has adopted new rules on the systematic exchange of information between member states on refusals to grant authorizations to own a firearm. An estimated 30,000 refusals are issued each month within the EU on security grounds. The delegated regulation adopted today will enable the relevant national authorities to check, using the Internal Market Information IT System, whether someone applying for a firearm licence has been denied a similar authorization in another member state.

This will help stop people from attempting to go around prohibitions from owning a firearm by ‘jurisdiction shopping'. Improving the legal control of firearms is a priority of the EU Action Plan on firearms trafficking for 2020-2025. The new rules will contribute to protecting Europeans from organised crime and terrorism, in line with the Counter-terrorism Agenda presented in December 2020 and the EU Strategy to tackle organized crime put forward last month. The new rules will apply as of 31 January 2022.

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