Those Who Cannot Hold A Weapon Licence
In order to obtain a gun licence, it is necessary to apply to the local authority of the place of residence with the following information and documents:
Petition
3 photographs taken within the last year,
A medical board report from public hospitals or state or foundation university hospitals that there is no impairment in obtaining a weapon licence,
Fee receipt,
000 A document showing that there is no overdue tax debt in an amount exceeding TL.
WHO IS NOT GRANTED A GUN LICENCE?
People who cannot obtain a gun licence are as follows:
Those who have not completed 21 years of age,
Those who are deemed mentally, psychologically, neurologically or physically incapable of obtaining a weapon licence with a medical board report,
Restricted persons and persons banned from public service,
Those sentenced to a term of imprisonment of more than one year, except for negligent offences,
Those who have been sentenced to imprisonment or heavy imprisonment and/or judicial fine for more than two offences of the same or different types committed at different times, except those committed by negligence or through the press,
Those who have been discharged or dismissed from the Turkish Armed Forces,
Those who have been dismissed from the profession or civil service or those who have been dismissed from civil service as a result of a conviction against them,
Those retired in accordance with Article 2 of Law No. 1402,
Those convicted of offences committed with firearms,
Those who commit crimes with a licensed firearm,
Those who, as a result of negligence or negligence in the custody of a licensed firearm, cause the commission of an offence by others or the commission of suicide or attempted suicide,
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Anyone who fires a firearm in or around a residential area or on or towards a public road when not required to do so,
Those convicted of disgraceful offences,
Those who have been convicted of one of the offences of manufacturing, importing or exporting drugs and psychotropic substances without a licence or in violation of a licence, or attempting to do so, selling, offering for sale, purchasing, possessing, transferring or taking over to another person in any way, dispatching or transporting, being a means of buying or selling or transferring or supplying in any way whatsoever,
Those who commit an offence by using one of the sharp piercing weapons specified in Article 4 of Law No. 6136 and are sentenced to imprisonment and/or judicial fine for this offence,
Those who do not notify the issuing authority within six months even though the reasons for the issuance of the licences have disappeared (except those who pay the administrative fine),
Those who carry firearms in places where the carrying of firearms is prohibited according to Law No. 6136,
Those who use the weapons registered in the inventory of the General Directorate of Youth and Sports for other purposes,
They cannot get a gun licence.
WHERE CAN FIREARMS NOT BE CARRIED?
There are places where the carrying and possession of firearms is prohibited. These places are as follows:
Hearings, courtrooms, psychiatric departments of hospitals, mental hospitals, prisons and detention centres and all kinds of correctional and execution institutions or their annexes,
Dormitories where students live collectively, educational and training institutions, outdoor and indoor meetings of political parties, meetings and demonstration marches with or without permission, trade unions, associations and places directly related in structure or their meetings and congresses, places where all kinds of sports matches and competitions are held, workplaces where strikes and lockouts are held in accordance with or contrary to the law,
The main buildings of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey and the places specified by the Presidency of the Parliament,
It is not possible to carry weapons in these places even if they have a licence.
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