Overview
- Police say more than half of the roughly 300 weapons or weapon parts lacked authorization under German law.
- The stockpile also included large quantities of ammunition as well as explosives and detonators.
- Officers discovered the cache after a welfare check found the resident dead of natural causes in his single-family home.
- The multi-day operation involved local police, Bavarian state criminal police experts and city officials, with a specialist firm handling transport.
- Legally held items were transferred to the municipal weapons authority, and criminal police have opened an inquiry into the provenance of the illegal items.