If you wish to purchase and possess weapons or ammunition in order to test, assess or examine them as an expert, you must apply for a permit from the relevant authority.
If you have lost a weapon, ammunition or a firearms permit, such as a firearm ownership card or a firearms license, you must report this to the responsible firearms authority.
If you want to temporarily take weapons or ammunition abroad from Germany, take them temporarily to Germany or take them through Germany, you need a permit.
If you want to have your commercial weapons manufacturing or commercial weapons trading business run by a representative, you will need a representative permit.
If you want to appoint another person to manage a dependent branch for the commercial manufacture of weapons or for the commercial trade of weapons, you need a deputy permit
If you, as a shooting club, already have a firearm ownership card (WBK) and want to purchase another firearm that requires a permit, you must apply for this.
If you want to take your weapons within the European Union (EU) or to Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland, you need a European firearms passport.
If you want to carry blank, irritant and signal weapons with the approval mark of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) in public, you must first apply for a small weapon license.
If you have inherited weapons or ammunition, you must apply to the relevant authority within one month for permission to continue to possess the weapons or ammunition.
If you want to appoint another person to manage a branch for the commercial manufacture of weapons or for the commercial trade of weapons, you need a representative permit
