More and more private firearms: But Berlin’s authorities hardly control them

In Berlin, more and more people have a firearm – but the authorities hardly check the gun owners. In 2015, 9,532 owners of firearms were still recorded in the National Weapons Register for Berlin. By the end of January 2023, the number had risen by 15 percent over the years to almost 11,000 gun owners. This is the result of a response from the Senate Department of the Interior to a still unpublished request from the spokesman for domestic affairs for the Greens, Vasili Franco, which was previously available to the Tagesspiegel.