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If you have had your weapons rendered unusable or destroyed, you must report this within two weeks.

Weapons or their essential parts are rendered permanently unusable if the ability to shoot or function cannot be restored with commonly used tools and the technical requirements of the EU Deactivation Implementing Regulation (Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/2403 of 15.12.2015 laying down common guidelines on deactivation standards and techniques to ensure that firearms are permanently unusable when deactivated (OJ No. (OJ L 333, 19.12.2015, p. 62), as last amended by Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/337 (OJ L 333, 19.12.2015, p. (OJ L 65, 8.3.2018, p. 1).

If the deactivation has not been carried out in accordance with the EU Deactivation Implementation Regulation, the same provisions continue to apply to these weapons as to functional weapons subject to authorisation.

The rendering unusable is usually carried out by a gunsmith/weapon manufacturer. The competent ballistic office issues a deactivation certificate as proof that the weapon has been rendered unusable in accordance with the requirements of the EU Deactivation Implementation Regulation. You must keep the deactivation certificate together with the weapons that have been rendered unusable or take it with you when transporting such weapons. If you lose the deactivation certificate, you must report this immediately to the competent weapons authority.

A weapon has been destroyed when its technical functionality is permanently suspended and its physical existence no longer exists (e.g. by shredding or melting down the weapon).

If you have reported the rendering unusable or destroyed and submitted the necessary evidence, the competent weapons authority will remove this weapon from your permit documents (e.g. firearms possession card, firearms license, European firearms pass).

• Identity card or passport (copy)
• Certificates of authorisation (e.g. firearms possession card, European firearms pass) in which the weapons are registered (if available)
• Certificate of deactivation (officially certified copy) or proof of destruction of the weapon (e.g. presentation of the destroyed weapon or detailed visual documentation of the destruction process)
• Power of attorney/proof of activity/other proof if the notifier is not the permit holder, e.g. insolvency/compulsory administrator, officially appointed guardian, possessor (in the event of the death of the permit holder)

You must have a certificate of deactivation or proof of destruction of the weapon.

You must report the rendering unusable or destruction of the weapon requiring a permit together with the necessary documents to the competent weapons authority.

The rendering unusable or deactivation of weapons must be reported immediately.

To fill out the ad faster, you can use the NWR identification numbers (NWR ID):

• Your PersonalNWR-ID (P- or F-NWR-ID) for your personal information
• the permitNWR-ID for the firearms permit (E-NWR-ID)
• the weapon or weapon part NWR ID (W or T-NWR ID).

You can obtain the NWR IDs upon application from the responsible weapons authority.

• Notification of weapons that have been rendered unusable or destroyed and require a permit
• The rendering unusable or deactivation of weapons must be reported immediately
• Weapons or their essential parts rendered permanently unusable if the ability to shoot or function cannot be restored with commonly used tools.
• Rendering unusable is only permitted by the holder of a weapon manufacturing permit
• Proof of rendering unusable by means of a certificate of deactivation
• Weapons that have been demonstrably rendered unusable are removed from the Permit for the Acquisition and Possession of Weapons (WBK)
• The deactivation certificate must be kept permanently and carried when the deactivated weapon is taken.
• Loss of the deactivation certificate must be reported immediately

Responsible: Weapons Authority

Weapons Authority