Firearms Permit Information
If your firearms permit is issued in Norway, Sweden, Iceland or Denmark, no additional permit is needed. In customs, you will need to show you are attending this competition with the invitation letter.
If you are a citizen of the European Union and hold the firearm permits from an EU member state, you will need to apply for the European Firearms Pass (EFP) from your local authorities.
For everyone else, the Oulu Police Department will handle all firearms permissions for all the Rifle World Shoot 2024 athletes. Permits will be handled for each national team as one group. Please prepare and collect all the information listed below:
- Last name
- First names
- Date of birth
- Place of birth: town and country
- Passport number
- Passport issuing country
- Passport issuing agency
- Home address
- Email address (the same as in registering with competition)
- Country where travelling from
- Country of residency
- Scanned image of the passport
- When the firearm will be imported, date and flight information
- When the firearm will be exported, date and flight information
For each firearm:
- EU Classification of firearm: mostly rifle with magazine capacity larger than 10: “A7” or if magazine capacity only up to 10: “B”. For firearms shorter than 600 millimeters or with shorter than 300 millimeter barrels: “A8”.
- Calibre
- If Semi-automatic or Bolt action
- Manufacturer
- Model
- Serial number
- Firearm length if the firearm is shorter than 600 mm or barrel is shorter than 300 mm
- Barrel length if the firearm is shorter than 600 mm or barrel is shorter than 300 mm
The information will be collected on a web portal that will be announced later. Only persons registered to competition via their regions as shooting in the main match or persons registered as shooting in the Pre-Match with the match organizers are able to apply for permits on this portal.
Import and export dates are necessary to make sure the permit covers your stay in Finland. Flight information is used to inform customs and airport security about the amount of expected traffic.
Transporting firearms on airlines
Contact your airline about the regulations for transporting firearms and ammunition. In addition to any airline instructions, it is necessary to exactly follow the instructions of Finnish aviation authority FINAVIA: https://www.finavia.fi/en/airport/baggage/hunters-and-campers.
When transitioning through any Finnish airport, including Helsinki HEL, all ammunition must be very carefully packaged according to the instructions. Use special cartridge boxes and use tape to secure them. Or use the original retail boxes for ammunition, also secured carefully with tape. Only 5 kg of ammunition, including the box, is allowed per passenger.
If these instructions are not followed, all the ammunition will be confiscated, and you will likely never get it back, or at least not in time for the competition.
Local Finnair flights are available from Helsinki HEL to Oulu OUL. Finnair requires advance notice and applies extra charge that includes one extra bag. Finnair requires that ammunition and firearms are not in the same bag.
If you arrive to Oulu airport as your final destination, your luggage with firearms will be available at the special luggage counter. If you arrive at Helsinki airport as your final destination, you will need to contact special luggage counter. You can contact them before or after picking up the other luggage from the belt. You will be asked to wait until your firearm luggage is ready to pick up and then follow any instructions.