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MUNITIONS LIST


1.* Arms and automatic weapons with a calibre of 12.7 mm (calibre 0.50) or less
and accessories, as follows, and specially designed components therefor:

  1. Rifles, carbines, revolvers, pistols, machine pistols and machine guns, except:
    1. Muskets, rifles and carbines manufactured earlier than 1938;
    2. Reproductions of muskets, rifles and carbines the originals of which were manufactured earlier than 1890;
    3. Revolvers, pistols and machine guns manufactured earlier than 1890, and their reproductions;
  2. Smooth-bore weapons specially designed for military use;

  3. Weapons using caseless ammunition;

  4. Silencers, special gun-mountings, clips and flash suppressers for arms controlled by sub-items a., b. or c.

    Technical Note
    Smooth-bore weapons specially designed for military use as specified in sub-item b. are those which:

    1. Are proof tested at pressures above 1,300 bars;
    2. Operate normally and safely at pressures above 1,000 bars; and
    3. Are capable of accepting ammunition above 76.2 mm in length (e.g., commercial 12-gauge magnum shot gun shells).
    The paramelers in this Technical Note are to be measured according to the standards of the Commission Internationale Permanente.

Note 1 This Item does not control smooth-bore weapons used for hunting or sporting purposes. These weapons must not be specially designed for military use or of the fully automatic firing type.
Note 2 This Item does not control firearms specially designed for dummy ammunition and which are incapable of firing any controlled ammunition.
Note3 This Item does not control weapons using non-centre fire cased ammunition and which are not of the fully automatic firing type.

(* Italy does not agree to control the following small arms with a calibre of 12.7 mm (calibre 0:50) or less in the Munitions List: revolvers: non automatic pistols and rifles: sbot guns not specially designed for military purposes.)

2. Armament or weapons with a calibre greater than 12.7 mm (calibre 0.50), projectors and accessories, as follows, and specially designed components therefor:

  1. Guns, howitzers, cannon, mortars, anti-tank weapons, projectile launchers, military flame throwers, recoilless rifles and signature reduction devices therefor;
    Note: This sub-item includes injectors, metering devices, storage tanks and other specially designed components for use with liquid propelling charges for any of the equipment controlled by this sub-item.

  2. Military smoke, gas and pyrotechnic projectors or generators. Note This sub-item does not control signal pistols.

3. Ammunition, and specially designed components therefor, for the weapons controlled by Items 192 or 26.

Note 1 - Specially designed components include:

  1. a. Metal or plastic fabrications such as primer anvils, bullet cups, cartridge links1 rotating bands and munitions metal parts;
  2. Safing and arming devices5 juses1 sensors and initiation devices;
  3. Power supplies with high one-time operational output;
  4. Combustible cases for charges;
  5. Submunitions including bomblets, minelets and terminally guided projectiles;

Note 2 - This item does not control ammunition crimped without a projectile (blank star) and dummy ammunition with a pierced powder chamber.

4. Bombs, torpedoes, rockets, missiles and accessories, as follows, specially designed for military use, and specially designed components therefor:

  1. Bombs, torpedoes, grenades, smoke canisters, rockets, mines, missiles, depth charges, demolition-charges, -devices and -kits, "military pyrotechnics", cartridges and simulators (i.e. equipment simulating the characteristics of any of these items);
    Note - Sub-item a. includes:
    1. Smoke grenades. fire bombs, incendiary bombs and explosive devices;
    2. Missile rocket nozzles and re-entry vehicle nosetips.
  2. Equipment specially designed for the handling, control, activation, powering with one-time operational output, launching, laying, sweeping, discharging, decoying, jamming, detonation or detection of items controlled by sub-item a.
    Note: Sub-item b. includes:
    1. Mobile gas liquefying equipment capable of producing 1,000 kg or more per day of gas in Iiquid form;
    2. Buoyant electric conducting cable suitable for sweeping magnetic mines.

5. Fire control, and related alerting and warning equipment, and related systems and countermeasure equipment, as follows, specially designed for military use, and specially designed components or accessories therefor:

  1. Weapon sights, bombing computers, gun laying equipment and weapon control systems;
  2. Target acquisition, designation, range-finding, surveillance or tracking systems; detection, data fusion, recognition or identification equipment; and sensor integration equipment;
  3. Countermeasure equipment for a. and b. above.

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