Gun license
Description
If you want to carry a firearm in public, i.e. outside your home or business premises, your pacified property or a shooting range, you need a firearms license. This also applies to alarm, irritant and signal weapons ("small" weapons license).
Information for Wetteraukreis: Waffenrecht allgemein
Online services
There is currently no online service available for this location.
Contact point
The firearms license is issued by the weapons authority in your district administration or the administration of your district-free city. There you can also find out about documents and forms to be brought along.
Contact person
Wetteraukreis - Allgemeine Ordnungsangelegenheiten
Address
postal address
Post office box 11 40
63652 Büdingen
address
Opening hours
Montag 07:30 – 12:30 Uhr
Dienstag 07:30 – 12:30 Uhr
Mittwoch 07:30 – 12:30 Uhr
Donnerstag 07:30 – 12:30 Uhr
Freitag 07:30 – 12:30 Uhr
Nachmittags ausschließlich mit Terminvereinbarung
Contact
telephone: 06042 989-2527
fax: 06042 989-492550
e-mail: Waffen-Jagd@wetteraukreis.de
e-mail: gewerberecht@wetteraukreis.de
Internet
Keywords
Gewerbebehörde für Makler und Bewacher, Sprengstoffbehörde, Untere Fischereibehörde, Untere Jagdbehörde, Untere Waffenbehörde
Prerequisites
Requirements for obtaining a firearms licence:
- age of majority (18 years),
- Reliability
- Personal suitability,
- Proof of need,*
- Proof of liability insurance,*
- Proof of weapons technology and weapons law expertise.*
* Not required for "small" firearms license.
Basis for legal action
Area of validity
Hesse
Keywords
Waffe, Schusswaffen, Waffenschein, Waffenrecht, Waffenpass