section_path: Legal definitions/International treaties
section_name: International treaties
paragraph_text: International treaties
  
  An inter-American convention defines firearms as:
  
  An international UN protocol on firearms considers that
  
  "Firearm" shall mean any portable barrelled weapon that expels, is designed to expel or may be readily converted to expel a shot, bullet or projectile by the action of an explosive, excluding antique firearms or their replicas. Antique firearms and their replicas shall be defined in accordance with domestic law. In no case, however, shall antique firearms include firearms manufactured after 1899