diff --git a/plugins/action/pgp_keyring.py b/plugins/action/pgp_keyring.py
index e003918039..42b5abc868 100644
--- a/plugins/action/pgp_keyring.py
+++ b/plugins/action/pgp_keyring.py
@@ -4,16 +4,10 @@
 
 from __future__ import annotations
 
-import os
-import shutil
 import tempfile
 
-from ansible import constants as C
-
-from ansible.config.manager import ensure_type
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleActionFail, AnsibleError
-from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_bytes, to_text, to_native
-from ansible.module_utils.parsing.convert_bool import boolean
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_text
 from ansible.plugins.action import ActionBase
 
 try:
@@ -37,33 +31,22 @@ class ActionModule(ActionBase):
         if task_vars is None:
             task_vars = dict()
 
+        validation_result, new_module_args = self.validate_argument_spec(
+            argument_spec = {'src': {'required': True, 'type': 'str'},
+                'dest': {'required': True, 'type': 'str'},
+                'follow': {'type': 'bool', 'default': False}
+            }
+        )
+
         super(ActionModule, self).run(tmp, task_vars)
         del tmp  # tmp no longer has any effect
 
-        # Options type validation
-        # strings
-        for s_type in ('src', 'dest'):
-            if s_type in self._task.args:
-                value = ensure_type(self._task.args[s_type], 'string')
-                if value is not None and not isinstance(value, str):
-                    raise AnsibleActionFail("%s is expected to be a string, but got %s instead" % (s_type, type(value)))
-                self._task.args[s_type] = value
-
-        # booleans
-        try:
-            follow = boolean(self._task.args.get('follow', False), strict=False)
-        except TypeError as e:
-            raise AnsibleActionFail(to_native(e))
-
         # assign to local vars for ease of use
-        source = self._task.args.get('src', None)
-        dest = self._task.args.get('dest', None)
+        source = new_module_args['src']
+        dest = new_module_args['dest']
+        follow = new_module_args['follow']
 
         try:
-            # logical validation
-            if source is None or dest is None:
-                raise AnsibleActionFail("src and dest are required")
-
             try:
                 # find in expected paths
                 source = self._find_needle('files', source)