Overview

• A passerby alerted a Bundespolizei patrol around 9:30 p.m. Sunday after seeing a pistol in a man's waistband at Munich East Station.
• Officers called in reinforcements, detained a 42-year-old at the adjacent bus station, and secured what appeared to be a real firearm.
• Police identified the weapon as a blank-firing pistol with seven 9 mm cartridges, which requires a Kleiner Waffenschein to carry in public.
• The suspect could not present the required permit and had a blood alcohol level of 1.22‰; officers also confiscated a prohibited one-handed knife.
• Authorities notified the local weapons office, secured the items, and opened criminal and administrative proceedings.