Kosovars worry about weapons

It has confirmed this for Kosova Prees, the chief of the arms and ammunition division, Dean Mustafa, who said the gun permit is taken to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

On the other hand, the gun law stipulates that a person can be equipped with gun permits if he is endangered, as well as whether he is a member of security or an employee of persons of particular importance to state institutions.

“In 2018, according to statistics now at the end of the year, we have about 5 thousand weapons permits issued by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, 3 000 are new possession permits, about 2,000 are exchanges of folders that have been earlier, at the time of UNMIK”, he added.

Mustafa also shows the criteria a person must meet to have a weapon with permission.

According to him, getting a gun permit takes two to three months.

“Initially it should be skilled for safe use of weapons made by licensed weapons companies, there are many of them, then I have to get a confession from the court and another from the police that is not prosecuted, a medical certificate for weapons, and a document from the Centre for Social Affairs that is issued for legal action. . His step is only to apply at the nearest station in Kosovo, then there are our procedures which we make deeper verifications... we have some delays going from two to three months because our capacities are very small, the companies have grown very much, the demand has grown very much, we have remained in the capacity of 2012<1>, he said.

The Kosovo citizen's gun permit costs about 300 euros, as around 250 euros costs gun use training, 50 euros in medical certificates and other expenses.

The Ministry of Interior Affairs in Kosovo has also licensed several companies dealing with the sale of weapons and have firing range ranges, which also provide gun shooting training.

One of them is “Katana”, in Obilic, where gun training is made for interested persons.

Osman Hajrizi from this company shows that the number of citizens to be trained by firearms has increased recently.

The citizen's interest in using a firearm is large, and visible because even the training for safe use of fire weapons has its own effect on the aspect of personal civic safety, because every citizen who passes through training is trained and certified for safe use of firearms, and normally those who pass through training are able to be able and willing to give advice to others about the risk they can pose to those who do not know how to use weapons, he added.

He has shown what abilities those interested receive during gun use training and capacity to certified.

Hajrizi: It must pass the practical and theoretical video test

The program's sub-training is two days to three days, it's the theoretical part, knowledge of the law of firearms, another unit is for weapons, and knowledge of first aid and normally as the fourth unit is also the practical part that is in the program that includes the safety rules, exhumation, lock-up and shooting... each citizen who carried out the training normally at the end before it is certified near the institute or the polygion of the holiness <x1Kat>Cat <82>> In the theoretical part of the program, it's going to have to be 70 points, so it's a theoretical test, and the actual practice of shooting still has 70 points that must be transparent-x3>, the owner of the target range “Katana”.

The character range “Katana” also offers for purchase different types of long and short weapons, which the law allows for weapons in force.

Prices for their purchase range from 200 to 4 thousand euros, depending on the type of firearm that the client is interested in possessing.

Kosovo Police statistics suggest that 1,171 weapons and about 13 thousand pieces of ammunition were confiscated in 2018 alone.

And various international agencies in Kosovo have reported that in the hands of Kosovo citizens there are more than 200,000 illegal weapons.

But in order to offer greater public security to Kosovo citizens, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, in co-operation with the Kosovo Police from December 17th, have launched the arms legalisation campaign, which will last until June 17th 2019.

Otherwise, the law on weapons in Kosovo was adopted in November 2009. He specifys in detail who can carry a gun. Procedures for physical persons' weapons equipment are regulated by sublaw acts. /