Information for gun owners from the Mettmann District Weapons Law Office
Anyone wishing to acquire and possess weapons or ammunition requires a permit in accordance with the Weapons Act. The competent weapons law authority for the district of Mettmann is the district police authority. Permission to acquire and possess firearms is mainly granted to hunting license holders, active sport shooters or in inheritance cases by means of a gun ownership card.
The carrying of these weapons in public also requires a weapons license!
A permit is not required for the acquisition and possession of alarm, irritant or signal weapons with the PTB mark in the district, but a small firearms license is required to carry these weapons.
The Weapons Act regulates the handling of firearms and ammunition as well as cutting, impact and semblance weapons (replicas of live firearms). The employees of the responsible department ZA 1.2 of the Mettmann district police authority will answer any questions you may have.
On-site inspections of weapons storage/ammunition storage
The Mettmann district police authority regularly carries out on-site inspections regardless of the occasion.
It is obliged to do so by decree. The checks are carried out on a random basis and are generally unannounced.
The selection of the weapon owners to be checked is carried out at random.
Whoever possesses weapons or ammunition must take the necessary precautions to prevent these items from being lost or taken by third parties (§ 36 Para. 1 of the Weapons Act (Waffengesetz-WaffG).
As a permit holder, you are obliged under Section 36 Para. 3 Sentence 2 WaffG to grant the weapons authority access to the rooms in which weapons and ammunition requiring a permit are stored in order to check that they are stored safely. If you repeatedly fail to comply with this obligation without justification, this may result in unreliability and thus revocation of your firearms license.