To buy an expandable baton is ilegall in Spain, the expandable baton defense is illegal and prohibited weapon civilians by law in Article 5.1, Apt C, the current Arms Regulations (Royal Decree 137 of January 29, 1993). Its sale is restricted by Ministerial Order of 28 April 1982 (BOE 112 of 05/11/1982), the bodies of those who depend Officers or Security Personnel whose regulations or internal rules of operation is intended for utilization.
Therefore and although this is only a stick and that their sale is free in most countries in the world, you should, if you’re in Spain and a member of the Police attach to the request authorization from the responsible for police station, headquarters, etc. to buy it, and you can only buy it at a gun shop with such authorization. How I can be qualified to carry a firearm and a defense and NOT an extensible defense? We can not answer this question, oddly enough, but at least OFFICIAL so no management response. Apparently everything comes from the interpretation of the law especially in Catalonia and Madrid has been carried out by the interventions of Weapons of the Civil Guard, to criminalize the extensible defense, high damaging potential that and ease of concealment. Fact that all that has been achieved complicate access to these weapons to good but has not gotten that criminals can buy them over the Internet to other countries without any control. How is it possible that being a member of the Security Forces have to fill so many roles to acquire an extensible defense when it turns out that anyone can ask the Internet to France and receive it directly at home in 24 hours? Because in Spain so we are wise. It favors foreign companies, while national suffocate.
Why, in other communities of Spain not make me any impediment to acquire an extensible defense when I identify as police? Because the Comptroller of Arms and Explosives of the Civil Guard in that area will apply the law with logic and coherence. In Catalonia, for example, the armories have to keep a register of all extensible defenses that are sold and in no case can be stored or to have samples to show to customers, while as we have reported in other communities can be stored unlimitedly and you have displayed to the public in armories.
Why are not legal to buy an expandable baton in Spain, when they are legall in France, Andorra, Switzerland, Belgium, Czech Rep., Etc …? Because their laws apply much more logic and coherence to a “weapon” that continues to be a piece of metal or plastic tube, infinitely less harmful than any Stab counter in Spain. If, in Spain you can buy a knife war, but not a truncheon. It is so. Why selling is not allowed extensible defenses Police Officers only a particular level in Spain? Because Intervention Weapons of the Civil Guard believes that can not. Although members of the FFCCSS be excluded in Article 1 of RDEA, and that Article 5 excludes the specially authorized officials, many armories of Spain, have “conditions” in their administrative authorizations, (it makes the Delegation of government after the Civil Guard report), so that only they can sell to agencies by “Order Official” and batch, and never Police owners title. They can not have a physical sample to show the client. What has to make to become a police officer specially authorized to carry extensible defense? Good question. No official response. But always we respond the same. First your body or entity recognize and accept (better if you have it regulated), the use of extensible defense in police intervention.
Then a course, in order to be recognized with a certain prestige, “responsible management of the extensible defense” and with it go to your head or mayor and ask him a letter where you acknowledge that you enabled to use this extensible defense is. You can also go directly to the police chief or mayor skipping all the intermediate steps, as their training as police covers the use of the defense, then an extensible defense, once opened, it’s like a conventional defense. Just add that, selling extensible defenses is not allowed to police equipment stores that do not have license armory. If they can sell knives and swords, but they can not sell a single security guard defense, much less an extensible defense. If they can close their shop.