Member States shall classify as firearms devices with a cartridge holder which are designed to fire only blanks, irritants, other active substances or pyrotechnic signalling rounds and which are capable of being converted to expel a shot, bullet or projectile by the action of a combustible propellant.
Déanfaidh na Ballstáit gléasanna le coinneálaí cartús nach ndeartar ach chun urchair chaocha, greannaitheoirí, substaintí gníomhacha eile nó urchair chomharthaoíochta phiriteicniúla a scaoileadh, agus ar féidir iad a thiontú chun urchar, piléar nó diúracán a dhíchur trí ghníomhaíocht tiomántáin indóite, a aicmiú mar airm tine.