Permis de port d'armes émis par le Secrétariat de la Défense nationale du Mexique pour deux fusils de marque Walther et Remington, un colt de calibre 22 et un revolver Smith & Wesson de calibre 22

BUNUEL Luis Firearms carry license, issued by the Mexican National Secretariat for Defense, for two guns, a Walther and a Remington, and a .22 caliber Colt and .22 Smith & Wesson.

Firearms carry license, issued by the Mexican National Secretariat for Defense, with a Mexican government stamp, numbered 0496.
Original black and white photograph of Luis Buñuel to upper flap of card. On reverse of flap, autograph signature and fingerprints of Luis Buñuel. Table showing the characteristics of the firearms, with their serial numbers: two guns, a Walther and Remington, 0.22 and 30-06 caliber, a .22 caliber Colt pistol and a .22 caliber Smith & Wesson revolver.
"I like guns and shooting them. I have owned up to 65 revolvers and rifles but I sold most of my collection in 1964, convinced that I was going to die in that year. I have fired my guns pretty much everywhere, even in my office thanks to a special metal box that I set up opposite me on some shelves. You should never shoot in a sealed room. I lost an ear like that Saragossa. My specialty has always been reflex-shooting with a revolver. You take a few steps, turn sharply around and fire at a cut out - a little like in Westerns" (Luis Buñuel, My Last Sigh, 1982).
Though Buñuel only devotes a few lines to his passion for firearms in his autobiography, it nonetheless played an important part in his life. This interest came from his father, Leonardo Buñuel García, who was the commercial agent for Remington and Smith in Havana at the end of the 19th century. Dealing arms as well as his role as a hardware salesman, he quickly amassed a large fortune thanks to this burgeoning market. "His father... had a gun shop. When the young Buñuel was ill, he would lend him a revolver to amuse himself with. He also took him to the firing range, something Don Luis would later do in Mexico with his sons Juan-Luis and Rafael. He had a veritable passion for these objects and at the age of fourteen, got into the habit of walking around with a Browning hidden under his clothes, a gun that would be confiscated from him in school. The scenes in which guns are shown in his films are beyond counting, particularly during his Mexican period" (Manuel Rodríguez Blanco, Luis Buñuel, 2000).