Arms possession card (red) for collectors and experts

Prerequisites

• You are a weapon collector or expert
• Minimum age: usually 25 years
• Age 18 and up, only with a personal suitability certificate
• Reliability
• Personal suitability
• Competency test
• Necessity according to weapons legislation
  
  Weapons Act (WaffG) §8, §17, §18

Documents required

• Application for an arms possession card (red)
  
  Can be completed online; or you can use the form.
  

  • Online processing: please keep all required documents and certificates ready for upload in PDF, JPG, JPEG, PNG or DOCX format. The files should be named as follows: firstname_surname_description.pdf
  • As an alternative, you may submit the application by postal mail or e-mail: please post or email the signed application and all certificates and personal documents to the weapons authority of the Berlin police.
• Identity card or passport
  
  As a photocopy or photograph
• Evidence of necessity according to weapons legislation
  
  Collectors
  • You must provide evidence that you are academically or technically active as a weapon or ammunition collector and that the acquisition contributes to the creation or expansion of a cultural-historically relevant collection (see “More information”).
  Experts
  • Provide evidence that you need firearms or ammunition for academic or technical purposes, for testing, assessment, examination or similar purposes (see “More information”).
• Proof of competence
  
  Test certificate (e.g. from an officially approved commercial competence training provider)
• Certificate of personal suitability (if you are under 25)
  
  In the context of processing your application, we will ask you to submit this document at a later date.
• Certificate of safe storage
  
  The purchase receipt or a photo of the gun cabinet must be presented as proof of safe storage. The type plate with the serial number must be legible.
  • You will be prompted to submit details of safe storage at a later date.
• Any previous registered addresses
  
  If you lived outside Berlin in the past 5 years, please keep all addresses at hand as you will need to enter these in the application.

Forms

• Application for an arms possession card (red)/ammunition acquisition permit

Fees

The application is subject to a fee. You will receive a notification of charges. Further processing will take place after receipt of payment. Up to 50% of the costs will be charged in the event of a negative decision.

• EUR 387.00: issuance of an arms possession card for weapon collectors or experts

• EUR 61.00: every three years, for regular reliability reviews
• EUR 45.00: every five years, for verification of continued need
• EUR 103.00: for weapons storage inspections
• EUR 51.00: for weapons storage inspections if the inspection is repeated after less than three years

Legal basis

• Weapons Act (WaffG) §17
• General Weapons Act Regulation (AWaffV)
• Schedule of fees related to weapons (WaffGebO) p. 1085 et seq.

More information

• Information sheet for experts
• Information sheet for collectors
• Information about weapons legislation – Information sheet for parents and teachers
• Information sheet about storing weapons and ammunition
• Arms possession card (green) – standard
• Arms possession card (yellow) for sports marksmen
• Weapons authority of the Berlin police
• Weapons legislation – Applying for an ammunition acquisition permit

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