Editing Overview of gun laws by nation (section)

====Italy====
{{Main|Gun control in Italy}}

In Italy, national police issue gun licenses to those over the age of 18 without criminal records, who are not mentally ill or known to use illicit substances, and who can prove competence with firearm safety. A shooting sports license permits transporting unloaded firearms and firing them in designated shooting ranges. A hunting license allows holders to engage in hunting with firearms. A concealed carry license permits a person to carry a loaded firearm in public, and requires proving a "valid reason" to do so (e.g. a security guard or a jeweller at risk of robbery). All weapons must be registered within 72 hours from the moment of purchase. The number of firearms an individual may own and retain at the place declared during registration is limited to:
* Unlimited weapons suitable for hunting. These are defined as smoothbore or rifled firearms having a barrel length of at least 30 centimetres and a total length of at least 60 centimetres. In the case of smoothbores the caliber must not be greater than 12 gauge, while in the case of rifles it must not be smaller than 5.6 millimetres measured between the lands, with a casing length no shorter than 40 millimetres if the caliber is exactly equal to 5.6 millimetres.<ref group="law">{{cite web | url=https://www.gazzettaufficiale.it/eli/id/1992/02/25/092G0211/sg | title=Gazzetta Ufficiale }}</ref>
* Twelve long or short firearms classified as suited for shooting sports by the Italian national proof house at the request of a sport association federated with the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI).
* Three weapons whose characteristics do not make them suitable for hunting and that have not been classified as suitable for sporting.
* Eight antiques firearms (manufactured before 1890).
* An unlimited quantity of single shot muzzle-loading functioning replicas of firearms built before 1890.
* Unlimited quantity of Moderate Offensive Capacity (<7,5 Joule) air guns.
The last two can be purchased in an authorized firearm shop by anyone who can prove to be at least 18 years old, without the need for a license. The carrying of such weapons is forbidden without a licence and no registration is required (Art. 7 c.4 DM 362/2001).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gazzettaufficiale.it/eli/id/2001/10/04/001G0420/sg|title=Gazzetta Ufficiale|website=www.gazzettaufficiale.it}}</ref> These limits can be exceeded with a collector license.

Ammunition: any licence allows the owner to keep 200 rounds of handgun and 1500 rounds of hunting ammunition or up to 5&nbsp;kg of gunpowder (smokeless or black) to handload cartridges. Registration is required within 72 hours from acquisition for all ammunition and powder. Registration is not to be repeated if ammunition and powder are used and then bought again, unless the original quantity registered is being exceeded with the new purchase. Smoothbore cartridges not loaded with slugs but instead with shot (regardless of its size) can be owned without registration if the number possessed is inferior to one thousand.