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

¹ Any per­son who car­ries out any of the fol­low­ing acts is li­able to a fine:

a.

ob­tains, at­tempts to ob­tain or is com­pli­cit in ob­tain­ing un­der false pre­tences a per­mit to ac­quire or carry a weapon by provid­ing in­cor­rect or in­com­plete in­form­a­tion, without ful­filling the ele­ments of an of­fence un­der Art­icle 33 para­graph 1 let­ter a;

b.

uses a fire­arm un­law­fully to shoot (Art. 5 para. 3 and 4);

c.

dis­reg­ards due di­li­gence in trans­fer­ring the pos­ses­sion of weapons, es­sen­tial or spe­cially de­signed weapon com­pon­ents, am­muni­tion or am­muni­tion com­pon­ents (Art. 10a and 15 para. 2);

d.

does not ful­fil his or her du­ties un­der Art­icle 11 para­graphs 1 and 2, or provides in­cor­rect or in­com­plete con­trac­tu­al in­form­a­tion;

e.

as a private in­di­vidu­al does not keep weapons, es­sen­tial or spe­cially de­signed weapon com­pon­ents, weapon ac­cessor­ies, am­muni­tion or am­muni­tion com­pon­ents in a safe place (Art. 26 para. 1);

f.

as a private in­di­vidu­al brings weapons, es­sen­tial or spe­cially de­signed weapon com­pon­ents, weapon ac­cessor­ies, am­muni­tion or am­muni­tion com­pon­ents in­to Switzer­land without re­gis­ter­ing or cor­rectly de­clar­ing these ob­jects, or fails to re­gister them while trav­el­ling in trans­it;

g.

does not re­port the loss of weapons to the po­lice im­me­di­ately (Art. 26
para. 2);

h.

does not carry on them their per­mit to carry a weapon (Art. 27 para. 1);

i.

does not ful­fil the no­ti­fic­a­tion re­quire­ments un­der Art­icles 7a para­graph 1, 9c, 11 para­graphs 3 and 4, 11a para­graph 2, 17 para­graph 7 or 42 para­graph 5;

j.

does not ful­fil his or her ob­lig­a­tions as an heir un­der Art­icles 6a, 8 para­graph 2^bis or 11 para­graph 4;

k.

uses pro­hib­ited forms of sup­ply (Art. 7b);

l.¹⁶⁴

ob­tains the ac­com­pa­ny­ing note un­der false pre­tences by provid­ing in­cor­rect or in­com­plete in­form­a­tion;

l^bis.¹⁶⁵

ex­ports fire­arms, their es­sen­tial com­pon­ents or am­muni­tion (Art. 22b para. 1) to a Schen­gen state without en­clos­ing the ac­com­pa­ny­ing note;

m.

on entry from a Schen­gen state car­ries fire­arms, es­sen­tial or spe­cially de­signed weapon com­pon­ents or am­muni­tion without a European Fire­arms Pass (Art. 25a para. 4);

n.

trans­ports a fire­arm without keep­ing weapon and am­muni­tion sep­ar­ate (Art. 28 para. 2);

o.

in any oth­er way wil­fully vi­ol­ates a pro­vi­sion of this Act, whose con­tra­ven­tion the Fed­er­al Coun­cil has de­clared pun­ish­able in the im­ple­ment­ing reg­u­la­tions.

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