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No one, except on behalf of the State or with a permit from the Minister, may import, supply, or possess any armament in Namibia. This includes cannons, machine guns, rocket launchers, projectiles, grenades, explosives, incendiary devices, and their parts or imitations, as well as ammunition designed to explode on impact.

The Minister may issue a permit to import, supply, or possess armaments after an application and payment of fees, subject to specified conditions. The Minister can withdraw the permit at any time. Subsection (1) does not apply to guns or projectiles used solely for whaling. If a person becomes disqualified or the permit is withdrawn, the police can seize the armament without a warrant, and it will be handled according to the law.

(1) Subject to subsection (4), no person shall, except on behalf of the State or under the authority of and in accordance with a permit issued by the Minister in his or her discretion, import into Namibia, supply to any other person or have in his or her possession any armament, including -

(a) any cannon, recoilless gun or mortar, rocket launcher, machine gun or machine rifle or any similar armament, or any part including a magazine, frame or body, thereof:
(b) any projectile or rocket intended to be discharged from a cannon, recoilless gun or mortar,or rocket launcher, or any substance intended to propel or  to assist in propelling any such projectile or rocket so discharged, or any grenade, bomb or similar missile, or any frame or body or any such projectile, rocket, grenade, bomb or missile:                                                               

(c) any explosive or incendiary device or any part thereof;
(d) an imitation of any armament referred to in paragraph (b) or (c);
(e) ammunition intended to be fired from a machine gun or machine rifle or any similar armament or ammunition designed or adopted to explode on or immediately before impact.

(2) On application in the prescribed manner and payment of the prescribed application fee by any person, the Minister may, on payment of the prescribed permit fee, but subject to such conditions as the Minister may specify having due cognisance of the purpose for which the permit is required, issue to such person a permit to import, supply or possess any armament referred to in subsection (1).

(3) The Minister may at any time withdraw a permit issued by him or her under subsection (2) or under the provisions of any Act repealed by section 45. 

(4) The provisions of subsection (1) shall not apply in respect of any gun or part of a gun intended solely for the killing or capture of whales, or any projectile or part of a projectile intended solely to be discharged from such a gun, or any substance intended solely to propel or assist in propelling such a projectile.

(5) Whenever -

(a) any person having in his or her possession any armament under the authority of a permit issued under subsection (1), becomes a disqualified person;
(b) such permit is withdrawn under subsection (3), any member of the Police may without warrant seize such armament and the Inspector-General shall deal therewith mutatis mutandis in accordance with section 12(2).