Article 160 Federal Criminal Code

To the person who carries, manufactures, imports, sells or stockpiles without a lawful purpose or with the intention of attacking, instruments that may be used for the attack or the defense, prison of one to six years and of five hundred to one thousand times the daily value of the Unit of Measurement and Updating shall be imposed, as well as the forfeiture.

Public officials may carry the arms necessary for the exercise of their position, subjecting themselves to the regulation of the respective laws.

These crimes, whose cognizance corresponds to the common jurisdiction, shall be sanctioned without prejudice to what is provided by the Federal Law of Firearms and Explosives (Ley Federal de Armas de Fuego y Explosivos), of federal application in what concerns these objects.