Weapon Laws in Germany

Wednesday, April 27th, 2016

Jörg Sprave of The Slingshot Channel is famous for his crazy improvised weapons, but he also collects real weapons, which isn’t nearly as illegal in Germany as an American might imagine:

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  1. Slovenian Guest says:

    Best part:

    “You have to have a permit. I happen to have five of them! Because you can only get eight guns per license.”

    We have similar, even slightly more liberal gun laws here in Slovenia.

  2. So much for my theory that Jörg is what you get in societies that limit firearms ownership.

  3. Isegoria says:

    It was a perfectly plausible theory, Scipio — one I’m sure most of us shared.

  4. Jehu says:

    When Americans think gun licensing, they think of an unbelievably corrupt process intended to ban guns by making the licenses unattainable by ordinary people who aren’t politically connected. That’s the American experience with such. European licensing is more like, fill out all the forms and if we don’t have a plausible reason to reject them, we’ll approve them.

  5. R. says:

    That’s the American experience with such. European licensing is more like, fill out all the forms and if we don’t have a plausible reason to reject them, we’ll approve them.

    Yeah, but actual shall-issue gun permits IIRC only exists in one EU country, Czech Republic.

    Also, it gets dicey, getting a gun permit if you ever been depressed and admitted that to a psychiatrist.

    You’ll have to see some psychologist, and some of these are incredibly ornery bastards who deal with people as if everyone was a very-well hidden sociopath or a replicant or something and wanting to carry a gun (because police response times aren’t instant) almost certainly precludes from passing such an exam.

    Meanwhile, others will give you a mental health OK after correctly determining someone is slightly more than healthily paranoid and unusually aggressive. But it’s okay since they’re well-socialized and unlikely to hurt anyone.

    Yeah. Psychological evaluations can be real funny.

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