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Display weapon rendered unusable or destroyed

  • Service description

    Weapons or their essential parts are rendered permanently inoperable if the firing capability or function cannot be restored with commonly used tools and the technical specifications of the EU deactivation implementing regulation (Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/2403 of 15 December 2015 laying down common guidelines on deactivation standards and techniques to ensure that firearms are rendered irreversibly inoperable upon deactivation (OJ L 333, 19.12.2015, p. 62).2015 laying down common guidelines on deactivation standards and techniques to ensure that firearms are rendered irreversibly inoperable upon deactivation (OJ L 333, 19.12.2015, p. 62), as last amended by Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/337 (OJ L 65, 8.3.2018, p. 1)).

    If deactivation has not been carried out in accordance with the EU Deactivation Implementing Regulation, the same provisions continue to apply to these weapons as to weapons requiring a licence.

    The deactivation is usually carried out by a gunsmith/gun manufacturer. The competent certification office issues a deactivation certificate as proof that the weapon has been deactivated in accordance with the provisions of the EU Deactivation Implementation Regulation. You must keep the deactivation certificate together with the deactivated firearms or take it with you when transporting such firearms. If you lose the deactivation certificate, you must report this immediately to the competent firearms authority.

    A weapon has been destroyed if its technical functionality has been permanently cancelled and its physical existence no longer exists (e.g. by shredding or melting down the weapon).

    If you have reported the deactivation or destruction and submitted the necessary evidence, the competent weapons authority will remove this weapon from your authorisation documents (e.g. weapons possession card, weapons licence, European firearms pass).

  • Procedure

    You must report the deactivation or destruction of the weapon subject to authorisation together with the necessary documents to the competent weapons authority.

  • Prerequisites

    You must have a deactivation certificate or proof that the weapon has been destroyed.

  • Which documents are required?

    • Identity card or passport (copy)
    • Authorisation documents (e.g. gun ownership card, European firearms pass) in which the weapons are registered (if available)
    • Certificate of deactivation (officially certified copy) or proof of destruction of the weapon (e.g. presentation of the destroyed weapon or detailed photographic documentation of the destruction process)
    • Power of attorney/proof of activity/other proof if the notifying party is not the licence holder, e.g. insolvency/forced administrator, officially appointed guardian, holder (in the event of the death of the licence holder)

  • What deadlines do I have to observe?

    The disabling or deactivation of weapons must be reported immediately.

  • Legal basis

  • What else should I know?

    You can use the NWR identification numbers (NWR ID) to complete the advert more quickly:

    • Your Personal NWR ID (P or F NWR ID) for your personal details
    • the permitNWR ID for the firearms licence (E-NWR ID)
    • the weapon or weapon part NWR ID (W or T NWR ID).

    You can obtain NWR IDs on application to the relevant firearms authority.

  • Short text

    • Notification of weapons requiring a licence that have been rendered unusable or destroyed
    • The disabling or deactivation of weapons must be reported immediately
    • Weapons or their essential parts are rendered permanently unusable if the firing capability or function cannot be restored with commonly used tools.
    • Decommissioning is only permitted by the holder of a firearms manufacturing licence
    • Proof of deactivation by means of a deactivation certificate
    • Weapons that have been demonstrably rendered unusable are removed from the licence to purchase and possess weapons (WBK)
    • The deactivation certificate must be kept permanently and carried when the deactivated firearm is taken along.
    • Loss of the deactivation certificate must be reported immediately
    • Responsible: Weapons authority

  • Professionally approved by

    Ministry of the Interior, Building and Sport

  • Information stand

    21.06.2024

  • Typing

    3b

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