Can anyone educate me on gun laws in Germany? Can the average Joe buy a pistol?
Oh’ and I hope this POS dies a slow and painful death.
Ownership restricted basically to the well-to-do who are willing to jump through many hoops. Easy to cross the border, without being inspected, into Germany from former Iron Curtain countries where handguns aren’t hard to get.
No.
Very strict gun laws. You have to take courses and be tested to even own hunting rifles or shotguns.
The perp bought this gun illegally in Belgium for about $1400.
We have friends in Germany. My understanding is that you can own a gun ONLY if you are registered with a hunting club, and go there to shoot. Very very tightly regulated, as is everything else.
How’d this guy get a gun?
Is anyone else amazed that this post actually mentions (what we all knew) that he shouted Allahu Akbar? I’m stunned. I mean, Obama is still trying to figure this one out.
Yes sorta. If the average Joe is an upstanding citizen with no priors, well liked in the neighborhood and judged as a reputable character, he can get a license to obtain a gun if he has a need for it. Most people fail these criteria as is the intent. If you hunt, it's much easier but you have to go through the process for each gun.
We had a German exchange student who freaked out because so many people here have guns. Thought we were gangsters or something. He said it’s rare that any German would own one.