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

Ex­emp­tion per­mits for the trans­fer of pos­ses­sion, ac­quis­i­tion, broker­age for re­cip­i­ents in Switzer­land and bring­ing in­to Switzer­land of ob­jects spe­cified in Art­icle 5 para­graph 2 may only be is­sued if:

a.

there are le­git­im­ate grounds for do­ing so,

b.

no im­ped­i­ments un­der Art­icle 8 para­graph 2 ex­ist; and

c.

the spe­cial re­quire­ments of this Act are met.

² Le­git­im­ate grounds are in par­tic­u­lar:

a.

pro­fes­sion­al re­quire­ments;

b.

use for in­dus­tri­al pur­poses;

c.

com­pens­at­ing for phys­ic­al han­di­caps;

d.

col­lect­ing