SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Dec. 1 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Civil Guard of the Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Las Palmas Commanderies has destroyed a total of 4,117 weapons deposited in the different weapons interventions, once the appropriate procedures have been carried out and the deposit deadlines have been met.
The weapons were transferred to a steel smelting company, to be scrapped through the smelting process. Specifically, 788 weapons of 1st category-short weapons (revolvers and pistols), 2,356 of 2nd and 3rd category-long weapons (shotguns, carbines and rifles), 176 of 4th category (carbines and pistols), 489 of 5th category (knives), 87 of 6th category (old or historical firearms), 138 of 7th category (crossbows, anesthetic injection weapons, etc.) and 83 of other types.
The destroyed weapons were found in the warehouses of the Weapons and Explosives Interventions of both Commanderies, coming from different sources; many of which had been voluntarily handed over by their owners, in other cases, upon request due to having lost the license or not having it, in addition to all those that had been used in the commission of criminal acts, administrative offenses or are classified as prohibited, and those that were not bought at auctions.
In order to improve the quality of care for citizens in the Civil Guard’s Weapons and Explosives Interventions, a computer system has been implemented that allows efficient management of the time spent in carrying out administrative procedures.
It is a system that can be used throughout the national territory through the pages http://run.gob.es/citagc or through the Civil Guard website http://www.guardiacivil.es and then in the link, prior appointment arms intervention.
A prior appointment may be requested to carry out procedures related to: renewal, weapons review, arms transfers, circulation guides for arms shipments, etc., except for the deposit of weapons for citizen security reasons, as well as the procedures for improvement, hearing or administrative appeals in order to meet the established deadlines.
In addition to the electronic appointment, the objective of the Civil Guard in this matter is to improve the computerization and simplification of the procedures for which it is working on the implementation of the Electronic Headquarters that will allow the processing of 28 electronic procedures avoiding travel and reducing The terms are also intended to simplify the procedures related to weapons licenses, extending the validity period of all licenses, homogenizing it to five years, among other measures.
EXHAUSTIVE CONTROL OF LEGAL ACCESS TO WEAPONS
Currently, the competence in the field of weapons and explosives that the State has is materialized through the Interventions of Weapons and Explosives of the Civil Guard. These units exhaustively control legal access to weapons, for which the current Regulation establishes some requirements, among which are the lack of a criminal record, as well as the passing of theoretical and practical tests on the use and handling of them.
Likewise, to prevent a weapon from being used improperly when the owner ceases to have the right to its possession and use, the regulations establish that they be rendered useless or destroyed.
The disabling of a weapon, as of 2011, is regulated by very strict regulations, in such a way that it is subjected to a process that affects all the fundamental parts of it, making it impossible to use it again with full operating capacity.
Likewise, the Civil Guard, periodically, carries out the destruction of firearms of various calibers, as well as prohibited knives. Some of them are involved in illegal, criminal or administrative activities and their destruction is determined after the corresponding procedure; and others, which because their holders of the right to possession and use cease and have not been awarded in auctions, have the same purpose. This allows weapons to be scrapped by a smelting or similar process.
