Official response - MINISTERIO DEL INTERIOR DE ESPANA

February 6, 2023 Diego Cohen

In relation to his proposal registered in file number 2059/22, for which he requests the exact means to proceed with the repair and comprehensive examination of the Ramon weapons, and in order to comply with Section 14.2 of Royal Decree 751/2010, dated June 4, by which the regulation of the organization and functioning is approved The internal of the Council of the Civil Guard, in direct relation to section 14.1º k) of the same legal text, you inform about the following:

through the purchase file R/0087/A/20/6 to provide various units of the Civil Guard

of semi-automatic pistols during the 2021-2023 allowances, EMTAN contracted with

Supply of 3,072 RAMON pistols per year.

This pistol was subjected to a rigorous and systematic testing program during the evaluation phase of the

The purchase case, as well as the weapons presented by other companies. program said

Assessment tests have been included in the tender PPT and in addition, it is repeated for each one

Supply corresponding to allowances, after receiving the contract, and in order to ensure the

quality of supply. The evaluation tests were carried out at the SAEP complex in Valdemoro and

The ammunition used was that of the Civil Guard.

An inspection after guaranteeing the quality of the supply, both in 2021 and 2022, was carried out at the factory's own facilities in the State of Israel and the ammunition used was supplied by the company, specifically, Tish Ammunition, which has the same NATO approvals as the current IDF ammunition.

After the pistols were distributed among the various civil guard units mentioned in the section

Above, certain failures related to the gun extraction system were identified . After learning about these extraction errors and informing the company, within the framework of the valid warranty, it was determined that certain parts of the gun should be replaced and thus solve the different behaviors derived from the homologous tolerances in the different types of standard ammunition by NATO . Therefore, the EMTAN company provided the replacement parts At the beginning of October of this year, he made the changes to all the weapons that were deposited at that time in SAEP; for the rest of the weapons, those that were distributed among the various units, for operational reasons, the parts were distributed to replace them .

In those units where the weapon parts had already been replaced, the result was very satisfactory.

At the same time, there was specific training on the RAMON pistol (provided by the EMTAN company, according to the contract) and its research was included in the conference program on the update of knowledge for the maintenance of the specific certification of ARM developed during the month of November in the service of weapons and equipment of the police.

Regarding future forecasts, it should be noted that the EMTAN company is expected to deliver the 3,072 guns of the 2023 allowance before the end of the first half of the year.

The information provided is indicative only, in no case will it condition or link the actions of the competent authorities on the subject or other actions that you can perform in the manner stipulated in valid instructions.

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