Renewing a weapons license in 2021 - step-by-step instructions

Gun owners are faced with the need to renew permits every five years.
This task is no more difficult than obtaining a license and initial permission, but like any bureaucratic procedure it has its own subtleties.

What to do if the license and permit expire? In this article you will learn: how to renew your permit to store and carry weapons, where to apply, what documents are needed, what difficulties may arise and what you need to do to avoid them.

How to get a license to buy weapons

Many people want to purchase a weapon for any purpose, but the procedure for obtaining a permit is intimidating.
But without it, you cannot buy, store, use or sell weapons to another person; this is illegal and fraught with punishment, including imprisonment. The procedure for obtaining a license to purchase weapons is as follows:

1. First you need to decide what kind of weapon is needed;
2. Hunters will need to purchase a hunting license;
3. Complete the required papers and undergo a medical examination;
4. Attend weapons training courses;
5. Contact the licensing and permitting department of the Russian National Guard, write an application and attach the required papers;
6. Get permission;
7. Buy a weapon.

Documents on permission (or refusal) are sent to the place of registration indicated in the application within ten days from the date of submission of the application. You have 2 weeks to appear at the permitting department.

The received license is valid for six months. During this time you need to select the necessary weapon. If the purchase does not take place, the license must be surrendered.

A citizen who has reached the age of 18 and has no contraindications for this has the right to become the holder of a weapons license. The latter include the use of drugs and toxic drugs, poor vision and mental illness. Drug addicts and mentally unstable people do not have the right to use any type of weapon.

Procedure

There are several steps in this procedure:

1. Contact the licensing and permitting department of the Russian Guard at your place of registration, write an application on a special form addressed to the head of this department with a request to renew your weapons permit. The information in the application must be truthful; any discrepancy with reality may result in refusal to renew the permit.
2. The district police officer must check the presence of a safe, the conditions of keeping the weapon, after which an inspection report is drawn up.
3. Submit the inspection report along with other documents to the licensing and permitting department. You must take the weapon with you; a department employee will check its serviceability.
4. Wait for a decision.

More information about the procedure for renewing a weapons permit can be seen in the video below.

Storage requirements

Even before purchasing a weapon, you need to purchase a safe; this is checked by a police officer. The safe has very serious requirements:

• It should be made of metal or wood covered with metal, this will ensure resistance to fire;
• Wall thickness not less than 2 mm;
• Ammo must be stored in a separate locked safe drawer;
• The safe must be attached to the floor and to the wall;
• The safe must not be installed near heating appliances;
• The distance to the window should be at least half a meter;
• It is necessary to have two locks;
• The distance to the front door must be at least 1.5 meters.

The safe should be installed in a room with less traffic, such as a bedroom. If you plan to use the weapon for a long time, then you should not save on a safe. A cheap model can be purchased for short-term storage of weapons. You don’t have to spend money on a storage element if the safe is built into a cabinet with a lock, or if you have a 24-hour alarm system in your house or apartment.

The lock on the safe can be key or electronic. Keys must be carried with you at all times to ensure that no family members or guests have access to the weapons storage area. This is a minor inconvenience, but such locks are considered more reliable than electronic ones. Considering prices, safes with electronic locks are much more expensive.

Basic documents for permission and renewal

It is mandatory to renew your weapons permit every 5 years . A permit and a license to purchase a weapon are two different things.

To get your first weapons permit and avoid making mistakes in collecting documents, refer to the article on our website.

To renew you will need:

• Passport and its photocopy;
• Matte photographs 3x4 in size, 2 pcs.;
• A copy of a valid weapons permit;
• Medical certificate from doctors. Among them are an ophthalmologist, a psychiatrist, a narcologist and a therapist;
• Drug test sheet
• Confirmation of payment of a one-time fee;
• Statement;
• An act of checking the place of storage of the gun from the district police officer;
• Hunting license and its copy.

You need to start collecting documents in advance and submit them no less than 30 days before the expiration date of the previous document. It is permissible to submit an application for renewal 90 days in advance.

The application will be considered for 30 days, old documents may become invalid, new ones will not yet be received, and this is fraught with punishment. Each weapon has its own acquisition license. If there are several guns, it is more convenient to obtain a permit renewal for all of them at once, so as not to collect documents and not go through the authorities several times.

How to do this through the State Services website: algorithm step by step

Recently, the state has been pursuing a policy designed to encourage citizens to renew their weapons permits using the Gosulug portal. Often local authorities will argue that the permit can only be renewed in this way (although such coercion is illegal).

To renew a permit through the State Services portal:

1. Log into your personal account on the portal, go to the “Security and Law and Order” section, select the service for renewing a permit for the appropriate type of weapon.
2. A window will open asking you to provide the required information. Upload copies and photographs of documents (see the “Documents” section of the article). You are also required to upload your photo. The maximum allowed file size is 5 MB.
3. Next, select the LRO department corresponding to your permanent registration.
4. Review of the application takes some time. As a result, the citizen receives a notification in his personal account, by email or SMS.
5. If the application is approved, then on the specified day you must appear at the LRO with all documents and weapons, where the permit is renewed for another 5 years.

Cost of the procedure

You can describe the average cost of renewing a weapons permit point by point:

• A special medical certificate No. 002-0/u costs about 800-2000 rubles;
• The state fee for renewing a permit in 2021 is 10 rubles;
• If necessary, you need to pay for re-issuance of a purchase license - 250 rubles;
• Necessary medical tests 1000-1300 rubles .

Renewing a permit will cost less than obtaining it for the first time, when you also need to pay for special courses teaching how to handle weapons. If the deadline for renewing the permit has passed, then you will have to undergo training and pay for it again.

Studying and passing the exam

For those who apply for renewal of a hunting weapon permit, an exam is required. This exam includes theoretical questions, including legal sections, the theory of safe gun ownership, basic elements of fire training, as well as a practical part.

But at the same time, you should not undergo training again, because you still have the certificate from the last time, and it is valid.

You can take the exam at any training center that provides appropriate preparation. You only need to pay for passing the exam. For those who pay for training and exams, the price is much higher.

Conditions for renewing a weapons license in 2021

All citizens who have a weapons license should take care of its renewal in advance. You should start preparing for the renewal of your permit at least 3 months before its expiration date. To do this, you must submit a corresponding application to the licensing and permitting department. Since 2021, the function of overseeing the circulation of firearms, including the issuance of permits, has been transferred from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to the Russian Guard service.

To obtain permission to purchase and carry firearms, you must meet a number of requirements. Thus, this permit cannot be obtained if a person:

• Registered in a drug treatment or psychiatric clinic.
• Committed a certain offense related to the trafficking and use of firearms. This includes production, illegal storage and sale; misuse of weapons; violation of storage and carrying regulations.
• He arbitrarily made design changes to the licensed weapons he had in his hands. For example, he bored out or replaced the barrel to fire with cartridges of a larger caliber; redesigned the mechanism for firing bursts; increased the capacity of the clip, etc.
• Has an outstanding criminal record.

For the same reasons, a citizen will be denied a weapons license renewal in 2021. For example, if in the 5 years that have elapsed since receiving a weapons permit, he was registered with a drug dispensary, or committed any crime, then he will have to forget about renewing the permit.

Citizens who do not submit the specified documents are not allowed to test the rules and skills of the BOO.

The cost of preparation for passing the practical part of the final certification in combat weapons (shooting from 2 types of weapons with an instructor: short-barreled - 6 shots, long-barreled - 6 shots) - 1300 rubles.

Renewal of weapons permit

Our shooting sports club provides the following service - renewal of a permit for civilian weapons. Today, the issue of renewing a permit is relevant for many people: hunters, individuals and other citizens with a weapons permit.

Renewing your gun permit can take a long time due to a variety of circumstances. And in case of delay, the owner may be subject to various sanctions from a small fine to confiscation of weapons and even criminal prosecution. Renewal of permits should be taken care of at least a month, and preferably three months before the expiration date.

License renewal procedure

The whole procedure consists of three stages:

1. Contacting the Licensing and Permitting Department (hereinafter referred to as the LRO) with an application (addressed to the head of the LRO) and documents.
2. A local inspector checks the conditions in which weapons and ammunition are stored. Based on the results of the inspection, an inspection report is drawn up, which is also sent to the LRO.
3. Waiting for notification from LRO. It is sent by mail to your residential address

How to apply

The procedure for extending the document itself is not that complicated. You just need to submit an application, provide a package of documents and wait a certain time. Unfortunately, it is at the first stage that difficulties arise.

Until recently, in order to write an application, it was necessary to appear at your city or municipal office, and if you take into account the fact that such an application is submitted in a certain form, you can imagine how much time it took to accept documents from one person. He approached the employee, who gave him a sample application or pointed to an information stand with all the instructions. Then the writing itself lasted several minutes. Every hunter remembered these lines. Today the department is maximally unloaded, thanks to the ability to take an electronic queue.

Anyone can submit an application independently by logging into their personal account on the government services portal using their password. You need to select a service, fill out the form and attach scans of documents. The procedure is considered elementary only for those who own a computer.

If this is not possible, then you should contact the MFC at your place of residence, whose employees will carry out the same manipulations completely free of charge. All you have to do is wait for notification of a refusal (we hope this will not happen) or the time for issuing a ready license.

You will need:

• An application for renewal will be issued free of charge.
• Passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation and its copy.
• Two 3x4 photos (must be matte).
• A valid weapons license for the weapon for which you are obtaining permission (more precisely, a copy of it, but also take the original, just in case).
• Medical certificate in form N002-О/у and drug test sheet. The certificate must be submitted in a copy, but the original remains with you.
• Hunting license and its copy.
• A receipt stating that you paid a one-time fee (in 2021 its amount is 500 rubles), if payment through government services is at a 30% discount.
• Then you will need to confirm that you have provided the possibility of accounting and conditions for the safety of the weapon. That is, that your gun is without modifications and is stored in a safe.

Having taken the documentation and your hunting weapon, go to the Russian Guard unit on the appointed day. There, your hunting weapon will be inspected for suitability for use. The inspector will accept the application and issue a form for the Certificate of Inspection of the Conditions for Ensuring the Safety of Weapons and Ammunition.

Next, you will be sent to the local police officer with an Inspection Report. He must visit your home and check the place where the weapons are stored (sometimes he does this over the phone). In 2021, the requirements for safes have not changed. Upon completion of the inspection, the district police officer must issue you an inspection report. You will have to hand over the documents received from the district police officer along with the rest. This act must be given to the LRO inspector.

You just have to wait for the decision after submitting the documents.

Overall, this may not seem difficult. And there won’t be any special problems even when you need documents. And also, we must not forget that the place for storing weapons must be appropriate. Naturally, those who already have weapons know all the basic requirements. But why not remember the basic provisions.

Photos

Even if you still have photographs from the time you first received your license, they will not be suitable for re-issuing the document. The fact is that the photo is considered relevant for a year.

While we are waiting for the local police officer to pay us a visit, we can, for example, go to a photo salon. Modern photo printing tools allow you to get ready-made photographs in 10-15 minutes. A professional photographer knows the basic requirements for permission photography, but you should be aware of these requirements too.

• Photo size – 3 cm by 4 cm.
• Number of photos – 2 pieces.
• Matte photo paper.
• The angle is full face.
• There is no headdress.
• No sunglasses.
• The background is light and monochromatic.

Checking the safe

The procedure for providing the service for replacing a license assumes that after submitting an application to the OLRR, a request will be sent to the local inspector to check the storage conditions of the weapon. The result of such a check will be a report.

But in order not to waste precious time, it is better to contact the local police officer yourself. On the appointed day, he will come, inspect the safe and fill out an inspection report form; this form is easy to obtain, including on the Internet.

Studying and passing the exam

For those who apply for renewal of a hunting weapon permit, an exam is required. This exam includes theoretical questions, including legal sections, the theory of safe gun ownership, basic elements of fire training, as well as a practical part.

But at the same time, you should not undergo training again, because you still have the certificate from the last time, and it is valid.

You can take the exam at any training center that provides appropriate preparation. You only need to pay for passing the exam. For those who pay for training and exams, the price is much higher.

Hunting ticket

A pleasant innovation in the legislation is the fact that now hunting tickets are issued in a single sample, and they do not require re-issuance. The law, the regulations of which determined a new form of issuing tickets, was published several years ago, so if you are a law-abiding citizen, then most likely you have just such a hunting ticket in your hands. Otherwise, you will have to replace the document by submitting a corresponding application to the MFC.

Only for rifled weapons...

The next point may be skipped by those hunters who prefer to use a smoothbore, since we are talking about rifles, that is, weapons with a rifled barrel. Due to the fact that certain characteristics of rifled weapons increase many times over, the law tightens the requirements for those who obtain or renew a license for such weapons.

1. Firstly, this concerns the age category. The citizen must be 21 years old at the time of filing the application.
2. Secondly, experience in owning smooth-bore weapons is required, which is 5 years.

Often, citizens use rifled weapons in their work activities (hunting farm workers, rangers). Here you can make a slight deviation from the rules. The farm or other employer is required to issue a certificate stating that the use of rifled weapons is associated with the direct performance of functional duties. This certificate must also be presented to the OLRR.

Period for consideration of an application for extension

After acceptance of the application, the decision is made within the period established by law - 30 days . If LRO employees fail to comply with this deadline and there is a clear delay in making a decision, you can appeal the actions of the official to a higher police authority (ULRR of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia) or to court.

How much does it cost to renew a license?

If we add up all the costs of renewing the license, we get a total cost of about 3-5 thousand rubles . Since you will no longer need to take a firearms course, the final amount is significantly less than what it would cost to initially obtain a permit.

At the same time, if the license was not renewed on time, you will have to undergo paid training again.

List of required documents

Is it necessary to obtain a medical certificate, a sports ID and a storage conditions verification report to renew the permit and license?
What other papers are needed? The list of documents for renewal, namely certificates, applications and other papers, is similar to the list of documents that are necessary to obtain a license and permit for the first time:

1. passport;
2. a copy of the storage (and carrying) permit;
3. application (when submitted through LRO or MFC, a sample is issued on the spot);
4. receipt of payment of state duty;
5. several 3x4 photographs;
6. act of checking storage conditions (drawn up by the district police officer based on the results of the check);
7. control shooting protocol (for rifled weapons);
8. hunting license (for hunting weapons);
9. a copy of the sports certificate (for sports weapons);
10. medical certificate in form 002-o/u from the medical board represented by a psychiatrist and narcologist, confirming that you are not registered with the relevant medical institutions. institutions and have the right to obtain permission.

Depending on the type of weapon, additional documents may be required.

If the deadline for applying for an extension is missed

If for some reason you have not taken measures to renew your license to carry and store hunting weapons, this entails administrative liability under Art. 20.11 Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation.

• The violator may be fined in the amount of 1,000 to 3,000 rubles .
• In practice, the amount of the fine depends on the period for which the owner of the hunting rifle was “late”: if we are talking about several weeks, it may be limited to 1000-1500 rubles,
• If the delay is longer, the maximum fine will be imposed.

In addition, before you pay the fine, the police officer has the right to confiscate your hunting rifle and return it back only after renewing your license.

Responsibility for untimely renewal of a permit

Start renewing your permit at least a month in advance, preferably sooner. The application is considered within 30 days, that is, the license period may expire, which will entail administrative penalties.

If the documents are submitted on time, but taking into account the 30-day review period, the license turns out to be invalid (or slightly overdue), this will be considered a violation of the re-registration deadline. The violator is punished in accordance with Art. 20.11 Code of Administrative Offences .

But if the license is expired by at least one day, the court may apply Art. 20.8 part 6 – illegal possession of weapons . The punishment depends on the subject of the offense (more details in the table).

Each case of violation of deadlines is considered individually. Possible measures of administrative coercion are described above.

Remember. If you missed the deadline for a good reason (for example, due to illness), liability does not arise due to the insignificance of the violation ( Article 2.9 of the Administrative Code ).

Why may they refuse to renew a permit?

During the five years that the originally issued permit is valid, a lot can change. For example, a citizen who has a weapon may be under supervision in a psychoneurological or drug treatment clinic and be registered with these institutions. There may also be administrative or criminal liability. Thus, the reasons for refusal to renew a permit may be:

• if, according to medical criteria, contraindications to gun ownership are identified (for example, vision has decreased significantly, traces of psychotropic or narcotic substances are found in the blood, etc.);
• if the owner of a hunting rifle has committed a serious or especially serious crime using a weapon (not necessarily the type for which the license renewal is being applied for), and whether the criminal record has been expunged does not matter;
• if the applicant is serving a sentence (any) or has already served it, but the criminal record has not yet been expunged;
• if in the last year before the renewal, the owner of the gun was again brought to administrative responsibility for committing a public offense or an offense related to drug trafficking, while the period of validity of the administrative punishment has not yet expired;
• if the applicant does not have a specific place of residence;
• if the weapon is faulty.

If you have questions about the topic of the article, please do not hesitate to ask them in the comments. We will definitely answer all your questions within a few days.

How to store hunting weapons in 2021

The first thing you should know is the fact that storage conditions for individuals and legal entities are very different.

For physical official documents do not provide for any specific conditions. In general, the list of mandatory conditions is quite small:

• Safes, drawers and cabinets must be equipped with a reliable locking mechanism. They must be made of high-strength metals. In the case of boxes, wood covered with iron is allowed.
• If you have a collection of weapons, then state documents regulate equipping the premises with a security and fire alarm. The doorway must be equipped with a metal door, with an additional frame and several locks.
• If the apartment is located on the first or last floor, it is also necessary to install bars on the windows of the room in which the collection is located.

These are fairly simple requirements, without any technical complications. In general, you can take the cheapest safe up to 1.5 mm thick and the documents you receive from the local police officer will not reflect this in any way.