Overview
- The Bavarian interior ministry confirmed that 138 firearms remain legally held by right-wing extremists (84) and Reichsbürger (54) as of July 2025.
- As of July 2025, more than 340 arrest warrants against suspected right-wing extremists and Reichsbürger remained unexecuted, ministry figures show.
- Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann reported that authorities confiscated 140 weapons from 40 extremist suspects in 2024 and are exhausting all legal options to disarm these groups.
- Greens lawmakers warned that valid gun licenses for radicals and unexecuted warrants jeopardize public safety, citing the NSU’s decade-old murders as proof of unchecked dangers.
- The Greens are demanding stepped-up search operations and swift execution of outstanding warrants to close the identified security gaps.