• The club must be a member of a recognized shooting sports association and be entered in the register of associations.
  
• The person responsible must be at least 25 years old. Exceptions apply to sport shooters.
  
  If the person responsible is under 25 years of age, they may be requested by the competent firearms authority to submit a specialist medical or psychological report/certificate on their mental aptitude. The responsible person must pay for the report/certificate themselves and send the original by post to the relevant firearms authority. A copy or e-mail will not be accepted.
  
  As a sport shooter, you must be at least 18 years old. Then you are entitled to purchase and possess firearms up to caliber 5.6 mm lfB (.22 l. r.) for rimfire ammunition with a maximum muzzle energy of 200 joules (J) and single-shot long guns with smooth barrels of caliber 12 or smaller.
  
  For other firearms, the minimum age for sport shooters is 21 years, provided that you can present a medical or psychological certificate confirming your mental aptitude.
  
• The person responsible must prove their reliability under firearms law.
  
  The person responsible can be assessed as reliable under firearms law, among other things,
  • if they have not been sentenced to a prison sentence of at least 1 year within the last 10 years and have not been a member of or supported a prohibited organization in the last 10 years.
  • if it cannot be assumed that they misuse weapons or ammunition or handle them improperly, do not store these items carefully or hand them over to persons who are not authorized to do so.
  • if they have not been in preventive police custody more than once in the last 5 years with judicial authorization due to violence.
  • if they have not repeatedly or grossly violated the Weapons Act.
    
• The person responsible must prove their personal suitability.
  
  The responsible person may be deemed personally unsuitable if, among other things
  • they are legally incompetent.
  • they are dependent on alcohol or other intoxicating substances, mentally ill or mentally retarded.
  • they suffer from serious illnesses, such as brain injuries, or physical impairments, such as amputations or severe visual impairment.
  • it can be assumed that they cannot handle weapons or ammunition carefully or properly or cannot store these objects carefully or that there is a concrete danger that they will endanger others or themselves.
    
• The person responsible must prove that they have sufficient knowledge of weapons and ammunition and how to handle them (expertise).
  
  In order to obtain expertise in handling weapons and ammunition, they must take part in an appropriate training course. The course comprises a theoretical and practical part. At the end of the course, an examination is taken before an authorized examination board. If the examination is passed, the responsible person receives proof of the weapons and ammunition for which the certificate of competence has been acquired. The responsible person can also only obtain the certificate of competence for the weapons and ammunition that they wish to acquire and possess as a shooting club.
  
  The responsible person does not have to take a separate competence test if they
  • the hunting examination or an equivalent examination or
  • has passed a journeyman's examination for the gunsmith's trade or
  • has worked full-time in the firearms and ammunition trade for at least 3 years.

In these cases, only suitable evidence must be submitted.

• You must prove that you can store weapons and ammunition safely.
  
  You must store weapons and ammunition securely. This generally means that only the person responsible has access to weapons and ammunition, for example by carrying the key with them at all times or keeping it safe in some other way. If you do not store your weapons and ammunition securely, you are committing an administrative offense for which a fine of up to EUR 10,000 can be imposed. In addition, the reliability of the person responsible under firearms law may be called into question and, as a shooting club, your firearms possession card may be withdrawn.
  
  When submitting your application, you must provide information about the storage location and the container in which you wish to store weapons and ammunition. In principle, you can use the following guidelines as a guide:
  • You must store ammunition requiring a permit in a sheet steel cabinet/container with a swing bolt lock.
  • You need a gun cabinet to store long guns and handguns that require a permit as well as ammunition that requires a permit. The type of gun cabinet you need depends on the number and type of weapons and/or ammunition you wish to purchase and own.
    • You may store an unlimited number of long guns, up to 5 handguns and ammunition in a gun cabinet with resistance grade 0 in accordance with EN 1143-1 weighing up to 200 kilograms.
    • You may store an unlimited number of long weapons, up to 10 short weapons and ammunition in a gun cabinet with resistance grade 0 in accordance with EN 1143-1 weighing over 200 kilograms.
    • You may store an unlimited number of long weapons and handguns as well as ammunition in a gun cabinet with resistance grade 1 in accordance with EN 1143-1.
  • The following regulations apply to the location where you may set up the gun cabinet:
    • If you live in an apartment building, it is not permitted to place the gun cabinet in the cellar if each resident only has a so-called cellar locker that is only secured by a door with a padlock.
    • You may also store up to 3 long guns in buildings that are not permanently inhabited, such as a hunting lodge or a weekend house. However, you need a gun cabinet with resistance grade 1 for this.
    • If you live in a shared household with another gun owner, you may store the guns in a shared gun cabinet.
  • It is also permitted to store weapons and ammunition with a weapons dealer. You must provide appropriate proof of this.