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437. Acquisition of weapons by persons authorized in section
430.
The officials and persons lawfully authorized to have,
possess, carry, convey and transport firearms under [provisions
of] section 430 of this title, shall obtain such weapons and the
ammunition therefor through the heads of their respective
departments or services

438. Sales of weapons and ammunition without licenses
prohibited; delivery permit.
No dealer in firearms or ammunition shall deliver a firearm
or issue the corresponding delivery permit to a purchaser without
the latter`s handing over to him a license to have and possess a
firearm, duly issued in accordance with the provisions of this
chapter, or a hunter`s, shooter`s or other kind of license
authorizing him, pursuant to law, to possess a firearm, and
unless said license contains an authorization for the purchase of
said weapon, and said dealer shall not sell to such purchaser any
weapon other than the one described in said license. The dealer
in firearms and ammunition shall separate from such license and
keep the sales permit and shall return the license to the
purchaser. No weapon shall be sold to the holder of a license
from which the sales permit has been removed When the purchaser
of a weapon is an authorized hunter or shooter or a person
authorized by another law to possess a firearm, the sale and
delivery of the weapon shall be made in the same manner provided
in subsection (b) of section 429 of this title.
No dealer in firearms or ammunition shall sell any quantity of
ammunition to any person failing to present a license to carry,
or a license to have or possess a firearm. Whenever a sale of
ammunition stored in the Deposit of Firearms and Ammunition of
the Police is made, the dealer shall hand to the purchaser a
signed and sealed authorization addressed to the person in charge
of the Deposit for the latter to deliver to the purchaser the
ammunition described in the authorization and which is stored in
such Deposit of Firearms and Ammunition. Said authorization shall
contain a description of the ammunition and of the amount to be
delivered. Likewise, it shall contain the name of the purchaser
and the number of his license to possess or carry a weapon. Upon
delivery of such ammunition to the purchaser the latter shall be
required to sign a receipt of delivery which shall be kept in the
Deposit of Firearms together with the authorization of delivery.

438a. Report by carrier, warehouseman or depositary; delivery to
consignee.
Every water, air or overland carrier, and every warehouseman
or depositary who receives firearms or munitions for delivery in
Puerto Rico shall notify such fact and the name and address of
the consignee to the Superintendent of Police as soon as
possible, and shall not deliver said merchandise to that
consignee until he is authorized to do so by the Superintendent.
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445. Hunting and target shooting arms excepted.
The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to the
possession, bearing, carrying, transportation and use of hunting
and target shooting arms to all of which the acts in force on the
matter shall apply.

446. Collections of antique weapons; certificates of
uselessness.
No provision hereof shall prevent that private collections
of antique weapons, which may not be used as weapons be preserved
and maintained and that their owners possess them as ornaments or
as matters of curiosity, nor that collections of weapons be kept
as relics, but for the preservation of any weapon of those
included in this section the prior inspection thereof and
approval therefor by the Superintendent of Police of Puerto Rico
shall be necessary and the latter shall render such weapons
useless, so that the same may not be used as such. The
Superintendent of Police of Puerto Rico shall issue a certificate
of uselessness of all the weapons possessed under the provisions
of this section, and the possession of any weapon not included in
said certificate shall be subject to all the provisions
hereof.****

454. Definitions.
For the purposes of this chapter, the phrases and terms
hereinafter listed shall have the following meaning and
definition:
(a) "Machine gun" is a weapon of any description, regardless
of size, by whatever name it is designated or known, loaded or
unloaded, from which a number of bullets contained in a magazine,
ribbon or other removable receptacle may be repeatedly or
automatically discharged by one single pull of the trigger. The
term machine gun also includes submachine guns, as well as any
other firearm provided with a magazine to automatically fire all
or part of the bullets or ammunition contained in the magazine,
or any combination of the parts of a firearm destined to and with
the intention of converting, modifying or altering said weapon to
make it a machine gun.
(b) "Firearm" means any weapon by whatever name it is known,
capable of discharging ammunition through the expanding action of
gases.
(c) "Ammunition" means any bullet, cartridge, projectile,
buckshot, or any load placed or which may be placed in a firearm
to be discharged. ****
(f) "Gunsmith" means any person, firm, partnership or
corporation engaged in the manufacture, repair, alteration,
assembly, cleaning, polishing, engraving or trueing, or
performing any mechanical operation for another on any pistol,
revolver or other firearm.
(g) "Dealer in firearms or ammunition" shall mean any
person, firm, partnership or corporation that, per se, or through
its agents, servants or employees, purchases or introduces for
sale, sells, trades, exchanges, offers for sale, or displays for
sale, or has for sale, in his business establishment or any other
place, whether it is also used as a residence or not or for. any
other purpose, any pistol, revolver, firearm or ammunition.
(h) "Merchant" means any person, firm, corporation or
partnership that engages, in a premise open to the public which
is not the residence of anyone, in the sale of merchandise and
articles which are object of lawful commerce between men.
(i) "Head of Family" means any person who has established a
permanent home, domicile or residence under his own
responsibility and authority. There may not be more than one head
of household in any permanent home, domicile or residence.
(j) "Dwelling" and "Building" means the entire part of a
structure used or occupied by a single person or a single family:
(k) "Vehicle" means any device that serves for the
transportation of persons or things by land, sea, or air.
(l) "Person", "Merchant" and "Farmer" for the purposes of
sections 425, 426, 427, 428 and 429 of this title shall include a
partnership or corporation, but any license requested for the
benefit of such artificial persons under the provisions of the
sections mentioned may be granted only in the name of a specific
officer or employee of such artificial person, provided such
officer or employee meets the requirements prescribed in this
act.
(m) "Police" means the Police Force of Puerto Rico.
(n) "Superintendent" means the Superintendent of Police of
Puerto Rico.
(o) "Rifle" means a firearm designed to be fired from the
shoulder, that fires one or more projectiles It may be fed by
hand or automatically by a magazine or removable receptacle, and
fired manually or semiautomatically. The word rifle also includes
the word carbine.
(p) "Shotgun" - A long barreled firearm with one ( 1 ) or
more smoothbore barrels, designed to be fired from the shoulder,
that may discharge cartridges of one (1 ) or more shots. It may
be fed by hand or by a removable magazine receptacle, and fired
manually, automatically or semiautomatically.

Chapter 57. Revolvers, Pistols or Instruments Which Fire Blank
Cartridges

541. Prohibited weapons and instruments.
It shall be a misdemeanor, punishable as provided in section
546 of this title, to bear, carry, transport, possess or sell any
weapon, instrument or device whose general configuration conforms
to that of a revolver or pistol and which is capable of
detonating blank shells, blank cartridges or any other unit not
provided with a missile, that could produce explosion through
combustion, including among such weapons, instruments or devices,
those revolvers, pistols, instruments and devices known by the
name of starter`s pistol, blank cartridge pistols, blank
cartridge revolvers, blank starter`s pistols, blank pistols,
blank revolvers, blank starter`s revolvers, or any others whose
general configuration conforms to those of a revolver or pistol
and which fires blank cartridges, blank capsules, or blank
shells. By blank capsule, blank shell or blank cartridge shall be
understood any hollow unit, cylindrical or cubic in form, not
provided with a missile, containing in its interior any chemical
agent or compound capable of producing explosion by combustion,
and provided with a percussion-sensitive detonator

542. Exceptions.
Excepted from the provisions of section 541 above are
revolvers especially manufactured for sportive events and
theatrical shows and used for such purposes, provided the barrel
thereof is a solid cylinder with no orifice whatsoever and ending
in a cone.