Gun Control & RKBA
Related: About this forumHow Germany approaches guns
Since then, a rare shooting tragedy in Germany, the country has implemented a national firearms registry, requiring the owners of 5.5 million legally owned guns to register them with the government.
The scale of gun ownership took photographers Miguel Hahn and Jan-Christophe Hartung by surprise. They learned that Germany -- a bastion of pacifism following the second World War -- has, per capita, the fourth-highest gun ownership of any nation. And so they set about documenting it, the results of which can be found in their eclectic photo series "Firearms and soap bubbles."
The collection seeks to draw comparisons to the much larger and culturally documented American gun culture, they said. On one hand, Germany's strict gun laws keep firearms largely out of the public eye -- and consciousness. But on the other, there are those who seek to replicate the United States' far more libertarian approach to gun control.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/03/world/cnnphotos-german-gun-ownership/
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ileus
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Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)I can't think of a single highly publicized shooting incident where the ownership wasn't determined. That being the case I'm curious to know what purpose registration holds save for future confiscation.
Also, what are Germany's laws at the time concerning 17-year olds possessing weapons. Far be it for me to suggest laws are impotent against the determined and nihilistic but I doubt a 17-year old could freely acquire weapons by legal means.
TeddyR
(2,493 posts)For self-defense, which I was not aware of until I saw this article. Thankfully, the United States has the Second Amendment, which protects an individual's right to keep and bear arms for self defense or whatever other legal reason you desire.
DonP
(6,185 posts)Gee, funny what happens when you Google things like "Germans buying guns".
Pages and pages of stories about Germans frustrated because they can't get self defense tools and stocking up on pepper spray, blank firing guns that look real et. al.
I guess they are all just stupid and just don't have your Google Fu skillz.
(But I bet their inability to get real guns comforts the folks in the Alsace region of France.)
hack89
(39,179 posts)
pablo_marmol
(2,375 posts)Y'know.......the one letting her have it for botching her job protecting California citizens from CRIMINAL gun violence?
http://213ajq29v6vk19b76q3534cx.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Special-Feature-K-Harris.pdf
Why not? Don't you care about victims of gun violence?
jmg257
(11,996 posts)But it felt good to get it passed!
CompanyFirstSergeant
(1,558 posts)The SAFE Act had 95% compliance!!!
Oh, wait....
Hold on....
Oh, it was 95% NON compliance.
Never mind.
beevul
(12,194 posts)Most DUers don't live in Germany.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)Beer.
Seriously though, it seems to me that Germany doesn't have the high crime problems that the US has, though I could be mistaken since I don't read Der Spiegel every day. Less gun violence, less knife violence, fewer issues with gangs, etc.
benEzra
(12,148 posts)even the over-regulated Germans can own some of the same guns that Canadians and Americans (and Swiss, Finns, Swedish, etc. etc.) can.