From Hildburg Bruns
More and more Berliners are being banned from buying, carrying or owning a weapon. The number of those affected has already risen to 481 this year (2018: 308). “That’s right, because Berlin has not become more peaceful,” says MP Timur Husein (43, CDU), who asked the Interior Senate for the figures.
What weapons are we talking about? Those for which you don’t need a permit – i.e. blank guns, air rifles, batons, swords. But also weapons that require a permit, i.e. with a gun license.
Which people are affected? Hunters or sport shooters who commit crimes – including, for example, a high-dollar traffic offense. But above all those who endanger security and have attracted attention: alcoholics, drug addicts, mentally ill people.
CDU politician Timur Husein calls for weapons ban zones Photo: Charles Yunck
The bans do not expire, but they can be lifted if suitability is proven. The people are registered with the LKA weapons authority.
The majority of those affected come from the 35 to 45 age group; in addition to Germans, Turks and Lebanese were also increasingly hit with a ban.
The CDU/SPD coalition is also working on weapons ban zones that they want to introduce in Berlin. No private individual will then be allowed to be armed there. CDU politician Hussein: “I would like them for all crime-ridden places – such as Görlitzer Park, Hermannplatz, Hermannstrasse, the RAW site on Rigaer Strasse, the Warschauer Brücke and Alexanderplatz.”
However, the legal requirements still have to be created for this. So far, only the federal police have declared prohibition zones at train stations – but only for a limited period of time and in the case of many crimes.