Rules for the Storage of Weapons
The rules for storing weapons and ammunition depend on who owns them. Weapons and ammunition of state institutions — establishments within the systems of the Ministry of Defence, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture of Georgia, the system of the Ministry of Justice, the State Security Service, the Special State Protection Service and the Prosecutor's Office — are stored under the procedure established by the normative acts of those agencies. For weapons owned by the National Bank of Georgia, banking institutions and the structural subdivisions of civil aviation security, the storage procedure is established by an order of the Minister of Internal Affairs of Georgia.
Legal entities active in the sporting and hunting sphere establish their own internal storage rules, but only in conformity with the requirements set by the Minister of Internal Affairs: entities engaged in hunting determine the rules for the storage, accounting, issue and security of their hunting firearms, ammunition and signal weapons; the holder of a permit for a shooting range or a shooting and hunting stand determines the rules for the accounting, issue, movement and use of weapons on the territory, the conduct and recording of shooters and the firing positions; and for a member legal entity of a federation or sporting organisation, the storage rules are established by its head. Failure to establish such rules, or their violation, entails liability in accordance with Georgian legislation.