Article 163 Federal Criminal Code

The granting of the licenses referred to in Article 161 shall be made by the Executive of the Union through the Department or Ministry that it designates, subjecting itself to the provisions of the respective regulatory law, and to the following:

I.- The sale of the weapons included in Article 161 may only be made by mercantile establishments provided with a license and never by private individuals, and

II.- The person who requests a license to carry weapons must comply with the following requirements:

a). To furnish a bond for the amount set by the authority, and

b). To prove the necessity that he has for the carrying of weapons and his background of honorableness and prudence, with the testimony of five persons well known to the authority.