Legal entities established as gunsmiths may carry out operations with weapons and ammunition only after obtaining authorization or, as the case may be, after its appropriate completion, which is carried out upon request by the police structure within whose territorial jurisdiction the headquarters or place of business where the operations are to be conducted is located. To obtain the authorization or, as the case may be, to complete it, the gunsmith must submit an application specifying the category of operations to be undertaken, accompanied by the documents provided for in Art. 143 of the Methodological Norms for the application of Law No. 295/2004 regarding the regime of weapons and ammunition, approved by Government Decision No. 11/2018.