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Control of Firearms and Ammunition

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Definitions

Applicability of chapter

Persons who may lawfully carry firearms

Persons who may be licensed to carry firearms

Persons who may be licensed to carry a concealed handgun on a 24-hour basis

Application for license; form, oath; fees

Qualifications of applicant

Persons ineligible to possess or carry firearms or ammunition

Contents of license

Grounds for refusing to issue license

Cancellation or suspension of license

Relinquishment of firearm

Reciprocal recognition of out-of-state licenses

License to sell firearms and/or ammunition; gunsmiths; report of transactions; private transfer sales to minors or aliens

Application for dealer's or gunsmith's license; form and content; term; fee; renewals

Qualifications of dealer or gunsmith

Corporation or partnership application for license

Conditions for dealers' operations; records of transactions

Sales of weapons and ammunition without licenses prohibited; sales slips

Selling firearms and ammunition without a license

Importation of firearms without a license

Cancellation of license

Report by carrier, warehouseman or depositary; delivery to consignee

Report of firearms purchased outside or brought into the Virgin Islands; fees; penalty

Port locations designated for registration of firearms and ammunition

Report of loss of firearm

Appeals

Firearms Register

Death of licensee

Deposit of firearms in Department of Public Safety, disposition

Collections of antique firearms; certificates of uselessness

Repealed. May 16, 1974, No. 3566, § 5, Sess. L. 1974, p. 101.

Report of treatment of wounded persons

Discharging or aiming firearms

False information forbidden in sale of weapons

Alteration of identifying marks of weapons prohibited

Illegal use of license; penalty

Deposit of fees into General Fund

General penalty section

Regulations

Police power reserved

Seizure and forfeiture

Limited search

Registration of firearms upon purchase from dealer; registration of firearms transferred from non-dealer

Safe storage of firearms; penalties