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Apply for a yellow firearm ownership card for individual sport shooters

If you are a member of a shooting club, you can apply for a permanent permit to purchase certain types of weapons (yellow gun ownership card).
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Detailed description

The yellow gun license entitles you to a total of up to ten

  • Single-shot long guns with smooth and rifled barrels,
  • Repeating long guns with rifled barrels,
  • single-barreled, single-shot handguns for cartridge ammunition,
  • multi-shot short and long guns with percussion cap ignition (percussion weapons)

You must apply for the yellow firearms license from the responsible authority.

 

Information

Prerequisites

  • Minimum age: 25 years
  • reasonable reason, such as activity as a sports shooter (need)
  • At least one year of active membership in a shooting sports club
  • No criminal record (reliability)
  • No incapacity, mental illness or drug addiction (personal suitability)
  • Knowledge of firearms regulations
  • safe handling of weapons and ammunition
  • Skills in shooting firearms (not required if only collecting weapons that cannot fire)
  • Safe storage is guaranteed

Documents required

  • Identity card or passport (copy)
  • Certificate from the shooting sports association
  • Proof of expertise
  • Proof of storage, for example purchase agreement for a gun safe and/or photos of the gun safe and location
  • If necessary, a specialist medical or psychological certificate about your mental suitability (if under 25 years of age)

Please note

You can also get a permit if you are under 25 years old, provided you can prove your personal suitability with a report. Sport shooters can get a permit from the age of 18. However, this only applies to firearms up to caliber 5.6 mm lfB (.22 lr) with rimfire ignition and a muzzle energy of no more than 200 joules (J), as well as single-shot long guns with smooth barrels up to caliber 12 or smaller. In other cases, the age limit for sport shooters is 21 years.

Deadlines

No

Procedure

  • You submit an application and attach the necessary documents.
  • The responsible authority will examine your application and, if necessary, request any missing information or documents from you.
  • The firearms license will be issued to you if all legal and factual requirements are met.

Processing time

Up to several weeks

Fees

19,00 EUR - 32,00 EUR

Legal remedies

Contradiction

Legal basis

§ 4 Weapons Act (WaffG)

www.gesetze-im-internet.de/waffg_2002/__4.html


Section 14 paragraph 6 Weapons Act (WaffG)

www.gesetze-im-internet.de/waffg_2002/__14.html


§ 36 Weapons Act (WaffG)

www.gesetze-im-internet.de/waffg_2002/__36.html


Fee schedule for official acts in the field of firearms law


(GebOWaffR)

https://www.landesrecht-hamburg.de/bsha/document/jlr-WaffRGebOHAV8Anlage/part/G

Address and contact information

Hamburg police

Mon 7 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tue 7 a.m. to 12 p.m., Thu 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Due to many telephone inquiries, we are sometimes difficult to reach by telephone.

All firearms and hunting law matters can also be handled in writing
to be edited. Applications as well as hunting and weapons law documents can be sent by post,
Email or by putting it in your home mailbox.

Due to the current situation, processing at the hunting and weapons authority may take several months.
We ask for your patience and will get back to you without being asked.

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Last updated: 12.02.2025