• The association must be registered in the register of associations.
  
• The responsible person must be at least 25 years old. Exceptions apply for sport shooters.
  
  If the responsible person is under 25 years of age, he/she may be required by the competent firearms authority to submit a specialist medical or specialist psychological certificate/attestation of mental fitness. The responsible person must pay for the expert opinion/certificate himself/herself and send the original by mail to the competent firearms authority. A copy or e-mail will not be accepted.
  
  As a sport shooter, you must be at least 18 years old. Then you are entitled to purchase and possess firearms up to caliber 5.6 mm lfB (.22 l. r.) for rimfire ammunition with a muzzle energy of the projectiles not exceeding 200 joules (J) and single-shot long guns with smoothbore barrels of caliber 12 or smaller.
  
  For other firearms, the minimum age for sport shooters is 21 years, provided you can present a specialist medical or specialist psychological certificate/attestation of mental fitness.
  
• The person in charge must be reliable under weapons law.
  
  The responsible person can be assessed as unreliable under weapons law, among other things,
  • if he/she has been legally sentenced to a custodial sentence of at least 1 year within the last 10 years or has been a member of or supported a prohibited organization within the last 10 years.
  • if it can be assumed that he/she misuses or improperly handles weapons or ammunition, does not store these items carefully or hands them over to persons who are not authorized to do so.
  • if he/she has been in preventive police custody more than once in the last 5 years with judicial authorization due to violence.
  • if he/she has repeatedly or grossly violated the weapons law.
    
• The person responsible must prove his or her personal suitability.
  
  The responsible person can be assessed as personally unsuitable if, among other things
  • he or she is legally incompetent.
  • he/she is addicted to alcohol or other intoxicating substances, is mentally ill or is a moron.
  • he/she suffers from serious illnesses, such as brain injuries, or physical impairments, such as amputations or severe visual impairment.
  • it can be assumed that he or she cannot handle weapons or ammunition carefully or properly or that there is a concrete danger that he or she will endanger others or himself or herself.
    
• The responsible person must prove that he or she has sufficient knowledge about weapons and ammunition and how to handle them (expertise).
  
  In order to obtain the expertise in handling weapons and ammunition, he or she must attend an appropriate training course. The course includes a theoretical and practical part. At the end of the course, an examination is taken before an authorized examination board. If the examination is passed, the responsible person receives a certificate for which weapons and ammunition the expert knowledge was acquired. The responsible person can also obtain the expertise only for the weapons and ammunition that you want to acquire and own as a shooting sports club.
  
  The responsible person does not have to take a separate expert knowledge examination if he or she has
  • the hunter's examination or an examination equivalent to it, or
  • has passed a journeyman's examination for the gunsmith's trade, or
  • has worked as a full-time employee in the trade of firearms and ammunition for at least 3 years.

In these cases, only appropriate evidence must be submitted.

• You must prove that you can safely store weapons and ammunition.
  
  You must store weapons and ammunition securely. This generally means that only the responsible person has access to weapons and ammunition, for example, by carrying the key with them at all times or otherwise keeping them safe. If you do not store your weapons and ammunition securely, you commit an administrative offense for which a fine of up to 10,000 EUR can be imposed. In addition, the reliability of the responsible person in terms of weapons law may be called into question and you, as a shooting sports club, may have your weapons possession card revoked.
  
  When applying, you must provide information on the storage location as well as on the container in which you intend to store weapons and ammunition. In principle, you can use the following guidelines as a guide:
  • Ammunition requiring a permit must be stored in a sheet steel cabinet/container with a swing bolt lock.
  • To store long guns and handguns requiring a permit as well as ammunition requiring a permit, you need a gun cabinet. The type of gun cabinet you need depends on the number and type of weapons and/or ammunition you want to acquire and possess.
    • In a gun cabinet with resistance grade 0 according to EN 1143-1 with a weight of up to 200 kilograms, you may store an unlimited number of long guns, up to 5 handguns and ammunition.
    • In a gun cabinet with resistance grade 0 according to EN 1143-1 with a weight of more than 200 kilograms, you may store an unlimited number of long guns, up to 10 handguns and ammunition.
    • In a gun cabinet with resistance grade 1 according to EN 1143-1, you may store an unlimited number of long guns and handguns as well as ammunition.
  • The following regulations generally apply to the place where you may install the firearm cabinet:
    • If you live in an apartment building, you are not allowed to place the gun cabinet in the basement if each resident has only one so-called basement locker, which is only secured by a door with a padlock.
    • You are allowed to store up to 3 long guns in buildings that are not permanently inhabited, such as a hunting lodge or a weekend house. However, for this you need a gun cabinet with resistance grade 1.
    • If you live in the same household as another gun owner, you may store the guns in a joint gun cabinet.
  • It is also permitted to store weapons and ammunition with a weapons dealer. You must provide appropriate proof of this.