The Police Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Tuzla Canton (TC) appealed to the owners of firearms that they will start with checks.
The police appeals to gun owners to keep them conscientiously, locked and separated in safes, metal cabinets or similar storage that cannot be opened with tools of common use, so that they are inaccessible to unauthorized persons, especially children.
“Given that weapons and ammunition must be stored in a residential or other appropriate space located in the place of residence, i.e. the residence of the owner of the weapon and ammunition, in the coming period the Police Administration will take all measures to ensure that, through direct control at the address of the registered residence of the owner of the weapon determined whether the owners keep the weapons in accordance with the applicable regulations, i.e. separated from the ammunition and locked in safes, metal cabinets or similar storages”, stated the Police Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the TC.
They emphasize that weapon owners who are found not to store weapons in the prescribed manner will have their weapons temporarily confiscated and misdemeanor proceedings will be initiated in accordance with the Law on Weapons and Ammunition of the TC.
“Please note that, in accordance with the Law on Arms and Ammunition of the TC, natural and legal persons who illegally possess arms, ammunition and mine-explosive devices are obliged to report such arms to the police administration in order to hand them over or disable them, i.e. destroy them, and police officers will take over the same in the place where it is located and issue a corresponding certificate about it”, they pointed out.
If a natural or legal person acts in accordance with the aforementioned provisions of the law, and before police investigative actions in accordance with the Law on Misdemeanors, starting the investigation of criminal offenses, and urgent investigative actions in accordance with the Law on Criminal Procedure of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH), i.e. the beginning of the application of police powers established by the Law on Police Officers, no misdemeanor or criminal proceedings will be initiated, they concluded.
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