Comments on: Weapon Laws in Germany

By: R.

R. — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 00:52:32 +0000

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.

By: Jehu

Jehu — Thu, 28 Apr 2016 18:10:21 +0000

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.

By: Isegoria

Isegoria — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 22:58:31 +0000

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

By: Scipio Americanus

Scipio Americanus — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 21:27:32 +0000

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

By: Slovenian Guest

Slovenian Guest — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 21:20:20 +0000

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.