Originally Posted by
Jolivanra
Puerto Rico is a very anti-gun territory. It is very restrictive in terms of licensing. You have to get a firearms license before you buy a gun, the firearms license costs about 400 dollars, and requires a lot hoops to jump through (for the sole purpose of discouraging you from getting one) and a 4 month waiting period. The license is good for 5 years and the only thing you can do is buy guns, ammo and shoot recreationally. If you want to get a concealed carry permit, that's another 1,000 dollars (yes, a thousand) and you have to go to the same process as the firearms license with the adition of a court hearing were you have to prove to a judge why you need a concealed carry permit and a state attorney does whatever it can from allowing you to have a concealed carry permit. You cannot have a concealed carry permit withou having a valid firearms license, which brings your total to $1,400 without even firing a single round. Then you have to buy a gun, prices are about the same a US plus the 11.5% sales tax. Ammo is more expensive than in the states. Every gun is registered to your name and license number in an electronic database by the Puerto Rico Police Department. Every time you buy a new gun is exactly the same as buying a gun in the states, we fill out the ATF form, but when you get the proceed, the gun is registered to your name at the local police database. Every time you sell a gun you have to go to a gun store and pay a transfer fee. You cannot purchase ammo of a caliber that your registered guns cannot shoot. Guns can be lended from license holder to license holder, but If I don't own guns of the same caliber of the gun that was lended to me, I cannot buy ammo for it. In terms of the type of guns you can own, you cannot own automatic weapons, silencers or suppressors except for LEOs. There is no magazine capacity ban, SBRs are allowed without any tax, short barrel shotguns are not. You can have an AR receiver registered as a rifle or as a pistol. If it's registered as a pistol you can carry it (CCW permit required), if you put a stock in it you cannot carry it, but you can still own it and use it at the range. Our gun shops have FFL lincenses and we can buy guns online through an FFL transfer, but the FFL transfer fees are astronomical and vary from $75 to $200 depending on the gun shop. It is very costly owning guns in PR to say the least.
The way gun laws are in Puerto Rico is the dream of every gun control idiot in the US. We have:
-Background checks
-Gun registration
-Citizen profiling
-Government knowledge of every gun owner's name, address, social security number, fingerprints, pictures, description and place of tattoos and birthmarks.
-Government knowledge of the amount of guns and ammo owned, every manufacturer, caliber, model, serial number, etc.
And still, 98% of crimes committed with guns are committed with ILEGAL guns. The other two percent are legal guns that were stolen, or accidents that are not supposed to be in statistics like crimes. How can that be? (Sarcasm) We are living proof that gun control DOES NOT WORK, criminals are still getting guns because criminals don't obey laws. Why make it so hard for the law abiding citizen?
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