Overview
- During a routine check on July 31 in Obernau, an Ordnungsamtsmitarbeiter found multiple long guns and weapon parts unregistered as war weapons
- The inspection was prompted by the collector’s possession of registered firearms, which triggered the administrative control
- Specialists from the Bavarian State Criminal Police (LKA) joined Polizei Unterfranken in a full search of the senior’s Aschaffenburg home
- Investigators also seized deactivated decorative firearms, which are prohibited under Germany’s Weapons Act
- Authorities have opened a criminal investigation under the War Weapons Control Act against the elderly collector despite police noting he posed no danger to outsiders