Owning a Firearm in Portugal
The licence classes, the medical certificate and police exam, the four gun ceiling on a B licence, the safe you must buy first, and inherited shotguns.
The Portugal Brief
Portugal Sets Up a Twenty-One Person Office to Spend €5.84 Billion of EU Defence Loans, and Its Chief May Sign Off Transfers of Any Size
Resolução do Conselho de Ministros 175/2026 creates the Estrutura Nacional SAFE: a coordinator-general, three programme coordinators, two team leaders and fifteen technical staff, funded from inside the existing defence budget, with a mandate to 30 June 2031.
Hundreds Turned Setúbal's Main Square Into a Beach on Saturday, Because a Private Estate Wants a Court to Declare Five Real Ones Its Own
Sociedade Palácio da Comenda has been suing since July 2025 to have Rasca, Comenda, Rainha, Maria Esguelha and Albarquel declared private. Lei 54/2005 makes it prove ownership before 31 December 1864, and the public right of passage survives even if it wins.
Metal Detecting in Portugal
The legal ban, the one year licence only the culture ministry can grant, the 48 hour rule on anything you find, and the detector the state confiscates.
Unileite Trims Another Two Cents From São Miguel's Milk Price, and the Azores Farm Federation Puts the Year's Loss at €15 Million
September is the second general step down on the island this year, after Bel's 1.5 cents and August cuts by Lactogal, Insulac and Prolacto. Jorge Rita says diesel is rising 16.3 cents a litre, and the €23 million of war-related aid paid on the mainland never reached the Azores.
Portugal Asked Google, Meta and Six Other Platforms for User Data 4,012 Times in a Year, and Four in Every Ten Requests Came Back Empty
The Europol and Eurojust SIRIUS report puts Portugal tenth in the EU on volume and third from bottom on success, at 59 percent against a 76 percent average. It filed five emergency requests all year; France filed 19,186. The mandatory e-Evidence regime took over on 18 August.
A Brazilian University Has Revoked the Doctorate It Gave Salazar in 1941, Citing the Professors His Regime Drove Out of Portugal's Own Universities
The Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro withdrew the honour on Thursday, 85 years after the Universidade do Brasil conferred it. The citation names censorship, repression, colonial policy and the academics the Estado Novo forced out. It landed in the same year as a propaganda pact.