Luger for luftwaffe...?

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Short answer, if you take a fairly easy test for a hunting permit you are open to buy a whole arsenel of long guns with little or no raised eyebrows, if however you want just one handgun you must be kept an eye on as only deviants have an interest in such things, right? First you have to join a club, pay for a safety course, attend training routinely for six months, then you may apply for one pistol in heavy cal (.32 up) one in light (.22) the same for revolvers, one per category. If you compete on a regular basis the police may consider you worthy of a reserve weapon after one year.
There are other catagorys for Magnum and special weapons too but each weapon must be documented as being used in competition to keep on the right side of the law,also each time you apply for a new weapon it costs 80 bucks. I am having to give up some of my handguns as I simply haven't the time to attend all the comps, with two baby's taking up most of my time now.
To become a registered collector you have to be invited by the society that regulates this and attend regular meetings which are held 600 miles ( oops kilometeres not miles) from my city, until they feel you are worthy, however long this may take..The cost of this is simply staggering!
The only way this will ever happen is if you already have a friendship with a collector.
They are notoriously difficult to contact and become involved with, like I said very similar to the Freemasons.
As I said there are some more to it, but in a nutshell that's the situation.

All said and done its still a better deal than in Britain