'Report Mainz', a news crew for ARD (Channel One, public TV) went and did a news survey of 'gun control' in Germany....basically asking the 513 gun control authorities (of each district) how often they inventory or audit gun owners (licensed by the state).
Response? If you threw all owners into a basket and waited for each one to have a single audit or inspection....it'd take four decades to complete.
The issue? If you read the whole report....they aren't manned to conduct these on a regular basis. Depending on what district or state you live in....it might be over a hundred years before your first and only inspection of weapons are reviewed.
About twenty years ago, I had a conversation with an American who lived in Germany, was a licensed hunter, and had guns owned and 'controlled' in his home (he had the class and license). He'd been in this situation since the mid-1980s, and never saw a big deal about the 'control'.
Once you finish the class and get your 'license'....you buy a cab cabinet for your weapons storage. You have only one key, and it stays on you.....24-hours a day. Unannounced, a police patrol can come to your residence and ask for a audit of the weapons. They'd have a list of what is supposed to be there.....as long as the weapons are show....you have no problem. If the key was not on your person, or a extra gun was in the cabinet.....then you had problems.
I asked the guy....this was around 2000, if he knew of any German who'd failed. His response....usually, a third of the guys who were audited....didn't have the key on them (it was in a second secure cabinet). Cops didn't necessarily like that, but they'd skip the consequences. What they didn't want to see....you pull the key out of a desk drawer.
Why the chatter on this story? I think some politicized folks want eliminate private gun ownership in Germany, and this audit business would be a step in that direction.
If you asked me over the gun management program in Germany 'fixing' things? The vast number of people who own guns in Germany.....are hunters. If you eliminated guns? You'd basically eliminate hunting. Vice versa is also true....hunting being eliminated...there's not much to have ownership of guns.
In the more rural areas of the nation? Like Bavaria, the Pfalz or Baden-Wurttemberg? It's a pretty high percentage of people who hunt.
Would any of this matter.....even if a audit guy came every twelve months? I have my doubts. You can only conduct the audit if the licensed guy is there....his wife or kids can't do much of anything, except say that you stopped by.
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