Germany announces plans for gun registry

[JohnRich 4]

News:

Germany announces plans for gun registry

"Germany's parliament is establishing a weapons registry. It will gather information from the 600 offices that issue weapons permits throughout Germany in one place.

"The registry is intended to make it easier for German authorities to get an overview of the roughly 10 million firearms in the hands of private owners. According to the draft of the Bundestag legislation, "the national arms register catalogs weapons as well as weapons permits, exemptions, orders, indemnification and personal prohibitions pertaining to weapons."

"Germany's Federal Administration Office is charged with maintaining the registry, which is designed to be quickly available to authorities. The goal is to make it easier to determine whether or not weapons are legally possessed, and to help officials with risk analysis when emergencies come up."

Full story: Deutsche Welle

Not to worry, cristelsabine, I'm sure that everything will go just fine with all your firearms.

[Gene03 0]

Uhm... Ya.

It went well last time they did that.

“The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec quotes (Polish writer, poet and satirist 1906-1966)

[Rookie120 0]

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Are they serious? Do they think is someone is in possession of an illegal firearm they will just come forward and register it?

If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck!

[JohnRich 4]

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The goal is to make it easier to determine whether or not weapons are legally possessed

Are they serious? Do they think is someone is in possession of an illegal firearm they will just come forward and register it?

Well, if it's not in the registry, then it's illegal! And with only 10 million database entries, from 600 different sources, cross-referenced to weapons permits, exemptions, orders, indemnification and personal prohibitions, what could possibly go wrong? I'm sure there's no chance that a serial number could be entered incorrectly, or two people with the same name could get mixed up, or anything like that. Not to worry! I'm sure the U.S. machinegun database is perfect too. And those Canadians must be crazy for getting rid of their long gun registration database, as the Germans always know what is best.

[Skyrad 0]

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Are they serious? Do they think is someone is in possession of an illegal firearm they will just come forward and register it?

It means Police can ask on the radio for quick check on someone if they find a firearm in the possession of that person.

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[Marinus 0]

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as the Germans always know what is best.

As long as there aren't German toddlers shooting other German toddlers, at least those ignorant Krauts can comfort themselves with the thought they do better that the Yankees. Not that that's too hard, of course, one look at the gun violence statistics will tell you that any Western nation does better than the USA in that respect.

[Marinus 0]

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Do they think is someone is in possession of an illegal firearm they will just come forward and register it?

No they don't, now go back, read the sentence you quoted again, but this time try to understand it. It can be a bit hard, I know, but if you really concentrate on those 16 words, you might eventually discover what it really says.

[christelsabine 1]

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Not to worry, cristelsabine, I'm sure that everything will go just fine with all your firearms.

For what should I worry? As a happy legal weapon owner, I do not fear anything.

As long as one follows the rules given ....

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Rather, the Bundestag is aiming to follow a European Union directive calling for every member country to set up a computerized, constantly updated weapons register by 2014.

.... I mean, seen on our EU directives .....: All is good.

dudeist skydiver # 3105

[sfzombie 3]

seems it wouldn't be too bad in germany...unlike the us, they already register with the state to own a firearm, this would just centralize the recordkeeping. seems like the way to go in my opinion.

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[Andy9o8 1]

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seems it wouldn't be too bad in germany...unlike the us, they already register with the state to own a firearm, this would just centralize the recordkeeping. seems like the way to go in my opinion.

I think the idea is that the wannabe nazis & Bader meinhofs won't register their guns, but the normal human beings will, so when it comes to confiscation and/or targeting time, the law abiders will be left least able to defend themselves, while the bad guys keep their weapons securely cached.

[normiss 733]

I thought they were busy taking over Greece.
Again.

[christelsabine 1]

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I thought they were busy taking over Greece.
Again.

Your information level is not à jour, mon frère.

Quite poor, that comment.

dudeist skydiver # 3105

[DrewEckhardt 0]

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seems it wouldn't be too bad in germany...unlike the us, they already register with the state to own a firearm, this would just centralize the recordkeeping. seems like the way to go in my opinion.

It worked great for the German government in 1938.

[DrewEckhardt 0]

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Not to worry, cristelsabine, I'm sure that everything will go just fine with all your firearms.

For what should I worry? As a happy legal weapon owner, I do not fear anything.

As long as one follows the rules given ....

6.5 million Jewish people who formerly resided in Germany or German occupied territories would disagree if they were still alive.

[kelpdiver 2]

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"Germany's Federal Administration Office is charged with maintaining the registry, which is designed to be quickly available to authorities. The goal is to make it easier to determine whether or not weapons are legally possessed, and to help officials with risk analysis when emergencies come up."

[SkyDekker 1,319]

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6.5 million Jewish people who formerly resided in Germany or German occupied territories would disagree if they were still alive.

And big US companies and families happily financed the whole thing.

[normiss 733]

To be fair, that IS how the citizens of Greece appear to feel about it.

But if you don't like my comment, there are plenty of other off-color German historical jabs in this thread you can enjoy.

[christelsabine 1]

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To be fair, that IS how the citizens of Greece appear to feel about it.

But if you don't like my comment, there are plenty of other off-color German historical jabs in this thread you can enjoy.

You just parrot w/o knowing details. Germany did not dug the whole in which Greece just fell.

Well, I know it's a quite long distance overseas to the US but, even over that distance you should be informed about today's political situations, even it's on this side of the pond.

Just to parrot slogans is (again) poor. There should be better arguments on the topic.

dudeist skydiver # 3105

[fernjack455 0]

Schatzi (?)
The Boogeyman says "Hello". He will be in Berlin in August. He wants to know if you would be his putzfrau while he's there.

[christelsabine 1]

Schatzi,

as I know who you are, listen to me: NO.

Go down on your knees and enjoy yourself, dude .....

dudeist skydiver # 3105

[normiss 733]

I would think that I am, which is why I commented on it.

While I do realize Germany did not put Greece into the predicament they are in, Greece is very understandably reserved about Germany bailing them out while taking over the government there to make sure they "behave".

[Marinus 0]

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6.5 million Jewish people who formerly resided in Germany or German occupied territories would disagree if they were still alive.

Yes, and in the United States of Bigotry, Negroes had to ride in the back of the bus until, when? 1965? Whatever your problem with the Nazis was, racism wasn't it.

[rushmc 18]

Whatever your problem with the Nazis was, racism wasn't it.

[Marinus 0]

Americans in general didn't have a problem with racism during and after WW II. That's more or less a fact.

[rushmc 18]

Ok, you have lost me

but, in light of your last post you may want to consider this


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