Processing weapons law

If, as a cash-in-transit company, you want to transport your weapons on a commercial cross-border road transport of euro cash through Germany, you need a firearms permit.

If you want to buy and sell firearms or ammunition, you need a firearms trading license.

If you want to take your firearms with you within the European Union (EU) or to Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland, you will need a European firearms pass.

If you want to carry a firearm in public, you must first apply for a firearms license.

If you wish to acquire and possess weapons and/or ammunition that require a permit, you must apply for a permit from the relevant weapons authority.

If you have inherited weapons and/or ammunition, you must apply for a permit for continued possession of the weapons from the relevant weapons authority within one month.

If you wish to acquire and possess weapons and/or ammunition in order to test, inspect or examine them, you must apply for a permit from the relevant weapons authority.

You must apply for a permit if you want to shoot with a firearm requiring a permit or without a permit. In particular, hunters are exempt when hunting and marksmen when shooting at authorized shooting ranges.

If you wish to carry alarm, irritant and signal weapons with the approval mark of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) in public, you must first apply for a small firearms license.

If you are not in possession of an explosives permit or a certificate of competence and wish to set off category F2 fireworks outside the New Year's Eve period, you will require a permit.

Do you want to permanently export weapons or ammunition from Germany to other countries, permanently import them into Germany or transport them through Germany? Then you need a permit.

If you want to temporarily take weapons or ammunition from Germany abroad, temporarily take them to Germany or take them through Germany, you need a permit.

If you want to manufacture, process or repair firearms or ammunition, you need a firearms manufacturing license.

If you want to acquire and possess weapons and/or ammunition as a shooting club, you must apply for a permit from the relevant weapons authority.

If you wish to acquire and possess weapons and/or ammunition as a hunting association, you must apply for a permit from the relevant weapons authority.

If you have lost a weapon, ammunition or a weapons permit, such as a weapons possession card or a weapons license, you must report this immediately to the relevant weapons authority.

If you acquire a firearm that requires a permit or transfer it to someone else, you must notify the competent authority within two weeks.

If you have had your weapons rendered unusable or destroyed, you must report this within two weeks.

If you are a member of a shooting club, you can apply for an unlimited permit to purchase certain types of weapons (yellow gun ownership card).