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

¹ Any per­son who wishes to bring weapons, es­sen­tial weapon com­pon­ents, am­muni­tion or am­muni­tion com­pon­ents in­to Switzer­land on a non-com­mer­cial basis re­quires a per­mit. A per­mit is is­sued if the ap­plic­ant is au­thor­ised to ac­quire the ob­ject in ques­tion.

² The per­mit is is­sued by the Cent­ral Of­fice and is of lim­ited dur­a­tion. The per­mit au­thor­ises the hold­er to bring a max­im­um of three weapons or weapon com­pon­ents in­to Switzer­land sim­ul­tan­eously.⁸¹

^2bis The Fed­er­al Coun­cil de­term­ines what form the per­mit ap­plic­a­tion shall take, what ad­di­tion­al doc­u­ments are re­quired, and how long the per­mit is val­id.⁸²

³ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may make ex­cep­tions to the per­mit re­quire­ment for bring­ing weapons oth­er than fire­arms in­to Switzer­land on a tem­por­ary basis.⁸³

⁴ The Cent­ral Of­fice shall no­ti­fy the com­pet­ent can­ton­al au­thor­ity at the per­mit hold­er’s place of res­id­ence of weapons, es­sen­tial and spe­cially de­signed weapon com­pon­ents, am­muni­tion and am­muni­tion com­pon­ents that have been brought in­to Switzer­land on a non-com­mer­cial basis.