Section 1 (7.6.2019/724)
Area of application
This law applies to firearms, weapon parts, cartridges, with the exception of loose cartridges, and particularly dangerous projectiles.
What is prescribed in this law about firearms also applies to robotic and rocket launch systems, gas sprays and effective air weapons. However, 2, 2 a, 3–6, 6 a, 7, 7 a, 8–10, 12, 15, 31–33, 35, 35 a, 36, 42, 42 a–42 d, 43 do not apply to gas sprays , 44, 44 a, 44 b, 45, 45 a–45 c, 45 e, 47–49, 53 a, 54, 55, 56–59 and 61–63 §, § 66 subsection 1 1 and 3, section 67 b, 68, 70–72, 74–77, 80–82, 89, 90 and 106, 106 a section 2 and 3 subsection or Sections 106 b, 110, 110 a–110 c, 112, 112 a and 112 b. On effective air weapons, 3–6, 6 a, 7, 7 a, 8–12, 31–33, 35, 35 a, 36, 45 e, 53 a, 55 a–55 c, 61–63, 67 b do not apply , §§ 72, 106 b, 110 or 110 a–110 c. Section 17 provides for other exceptions to the scope of application.
Section 3 (7.6.2019/724)
Weapon parts
Weapon part refers to a frame, upper and lower frame, box, barrel, jacket, cartridge drum, cartridge chamber, cylinder or another breech piece with frame, a breech head, a silencer and parts that functionally correspond to these.
12.6.2015/764:
This law enters into force on 1 December 2015.
Permits relating to firearms, weapon parts, cartridges and particularly dangerous projectiles, as well as prior consents, firearms licenses and approvals as a firearms collector in force at the time of entry into force of this Act shall remain in force with the applicable conditions.
Anyone who, when this law enters into force, engages in the business referred to in section 20 in the arms industry with effective air weapons must, within one year from the law's entry into force, obtain a business license in the arms industry that gives the right to conduct such activities. A permit is granted to an applicant who is entitled to engage in business, who appoints a responsible person referred to in section 26, who has a weapons handling permit in the cases referred to in section 20, subsection 3. and whose storage facilities for firearms have been approved by the police agency in the place where the storage facilities are located. An arms business person who, when this Act enters into force, has the right to engage in the business referred to in section 20 in the arms industry with firearms is entitled to engage in such business also with effective air weapons.
I don't have a firearms dealers license so I can't sell airguns above .25 cal but what the above laws mean is (unless I interpret it wrong):
1. I can sell any airgun up to .25 cal
2. I can sell barrels and barrel kits above .25 cal as that part of an airgun is regarded as nothing in Finnish law since section 3 is ignored for effective airguns.
3. I can sell an airgun above .25 cal if the barrel is not installed on the rifle. It's just airgun parts and not a functional rifle.
If I sell you a barrel above .25 caliber and you already have an airgun you can't just install it unless the airgun is already registered as an effective airgun. You have to apply for a modifications permit (€110) as you will be modifying a airgun into an effective airgun.
If you buy an airgun above .25 cal where the barrel is not installed from me you can't just install it. You first need to apply for a manufacturing permit (€110) as you would be creating an effective airgun.
Alternatively you can take the parts to a weapon smith and he can do the modification/manufacturing for you. In this case you have to apply for an effective airguns license (€110) as well as pay the weapon smith for his job. If you already own a firearms license you do not need to apply for a license to purchase and own an effective airgun, you just have to inform the police you have gotten it and on demand bring it to them for inspection.
You still have to apply for a manufacturing/modification permit if you intend to assemble it yourself though, but if the weapon smith does the work you just have to inform the police. One of my customers had this problem where he bought a barrel for the Impact M3 he bought from me, police wanted him to apply for a modifications permit but instead he went to a weapon smith who installed the .30 cal barrel and thus no longer needed to apply for a permit and just inform the police as he owns several firearms from before.
There is one problem though, once a rifle is an effective airgun it can never be transferred to someone else unless they go trough the transfer process for effective airguns, even if you swap to a lower cal barrel the rifle will still be registered as an effective airgun.
