Federal Act
on Weapons, Weapon Accessories and Ammunition
(Weapons Act, WA)

¹ A weapon ac­quis­i­tion per­mit is not re­quired for ac­quir­ing the fol­low­ing weapons and their es­sen­tial com­pon­ents:

a.

single-shot and multi-bar­rel hunt­ing rifles, and rep­licas of single-shot muzzle load­ers;

b.

manu­al re­pe­ti­tion rifles des­ig­nated by the Fed­er­al Coun­cil and typ­ic­ally used for off-duty and re­cre­ation­al tar­get shoot­ing re­cog­nised un­der the Armed Forces Act of 3 Feb­ru­ary 1995³⁵ and for hunt­ing pur­poses in Switzer­land;

c.

single-shot rab­bit slay­ers;

d.

com­pressed air and CO² weapons that de­vel­op a muzzle en­ergy of at least 7.5 joules or that can be mis­taken for real fire­arms due to their ap­pear­ance;

e.

im­it­a­tion, blank cart­ridge and air­soft weapons that can be mis­taken for real fire­arms due to their ap­pear­ance.³⁶

² The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may define oth­er ex­cep­tions or re­strict the scope of ap­plic­a­tion of para­graph 1 for for­eign na­tion­als in Switzer­land who do not have a set­tle­ment per­mit.