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Apply for a gun licence

If you want to buy and own firearms, you must apply for a firearms licence. Certain weapons with test marks are exempt from this requirement.

Competent authority

Description

You must notify the relevant firearms authority immediately if you lose a firearms possession card or a weapon. The weapon ownership card authorises you to use the weapon registered on it, to carry it within your pacified property and, for example, to transport it to the shooting range or to a gunsmith for repairs. The weapon must not be ready for use or loaded during transport. Weapon and ammunition must be transported separately in locked containers.

Prerequisites

  • Reliability
  • personal suitability
  • Expertise
  • Need (exception: proof of expertise and need is currently not required for heirs).

Your reliability will generally be checked by the department. Proof of expertise and need must be provided by the applicant.

Required documents

  • Identity card or passport
  • Sport shooters: Proof of at least 12 months of shooting sport activity in accordance with supra-local rules, by submitting a certificate of need from the recognised umbrella organisation to which the club belongs.
  • Hunters: Valid hunting licence.
  • Heirs: Proof of inheritance (certificate of inheritance or will), waiver from the other heirs if applicable. (Note: If there is ammunition in the estate, this must be handed over to authorised persons, but can also be handed over to the weapons authority).
  • Collector: Proof of expertise, proof of the cultural-historical or technical significance of the requested collection area.

All documents required in addition to the application must be submitted in the original and as a photocopy. If the copies have to be made by the authorities, a fee of 0.50 euros will be charged per copy.

Questions & Answers

The application must always be submitted in writing by post with the relevant documents if original documents are required. Only in justified individual cases can appointments be made in person

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