One is very easy, i like it! Another is overly complicated process that takes around a year and a half maximum if everything goes quickly. But hey a 20 training at shooting range is a great one! Idk kinda hard here...
Oh no! Buying a tool that can easily take multiple human lives at a range needs rigid regulations? How could that possibly be? My brilliant american ass can't understand that at all! /s
No, it is realistic: Police background check (not good for you if you are known to have started fights or got caught blind drunk behind the wheel, the legal term is "lack of characteristic responsibility) takes a few weeks. Then you have to get in to contact with a shooting club and they will be critical when you show signs of "trigger-happiness" or get crazy the moment they give you a gun to practice under the watchful eyes of one of their members as an instructor. And then there is the course that you have to take in gun technics, gun safety and law, law, law. Two years are in fact a bit long. In most cases it works much faster.
hunting is popular through out europe so naturally they would even with very sensible gun laws keeping the crazies away from gun sane people with a legitimate use can still get one... it just takes a while..
A Gatling gun with an electric motor is a machine gun. It can only be sold to the general public if it was registered before 1986. Hand cranked Gatling guns are much more affordable and they are not considered machine guns.
Getting a fully automatic weapon just requires extra tax stamps, it's about getting dollars, nothing else. Just like suppressors, tax stamp, only about money.
@@Elsureel There are some other exceptions. A Maxim gun made prior to November 1924 as of this writing would be legal to transfer without the tax stamp or ATF validation (I believe), depending on your locale. It's the "curio" law, and it's as asinine as exempting cars made before 1975 being exempt from smog regulations. You're still going to spend a boatload buying them or restoring them. Also, cars AFTER 1975 must still have an original smog certification and equipment (catalytic converter). As a side note, there was an attempt to bump up the exemption in California to 1983 but it failed. Go figure. Newer cars developed in the late 70s and early 80s which had a much lower rate of pollution can't be exempted. As you said, it's all about that cash.
No, it is both a right and a privilege. If you abuse that right by: murdering, committing a crime, etc. You will lose the right to own a weapon because if you say murdered someone, you would have violated their rights to live, and if you don't value or respect others' rights, you forfeit yours. Of course, we also have due process, which is 100% a part of those rights, but if convicted, you do lose some of your rights.
@@zacharyfreelove6101 That's the problem in the US there are new laws called "red flag laws" where your rights can be taken without due process. It also breaks the 6th amendment because the person being accused are supposed to be able to face their accuser so that if the claims are false the accuser could be held accountable. So say you break up with a girlfriend or get into an argument with someone you know if they want to be petty they could claim you own a gun and are being a danger to yourself and others even if you are not then the police will come down arrest you and confiscate your property. Even if it clears that you were not being violent you must go to court to get your property back and prove your innocence. That's the opposite of how US courts are supposed to work where the defendant is innocent until proven guilty. And through this whole process you will never know who accused you and they will never be punished for filing a false report.
The Philippines has millions of gun owners and their guns cost them 2-3 months wages. Even in Japan there are gun shops although with the rural population falling there are fewer hunters and sports shooters.
@@alecubudulecu Well yeah, was speaking in reference to civilized gun-free asian states like Singapore and Malaysia, as opposed to brutish Phillipines/Thailand
@@utubenewb1265those gun shops don’t sell to hunters. Only collectors. The guns are heavily modified to be inert (barrels plugged and welded shut. Bolts welded closed.
@@self.destructr1. The brutish countries you mention. Very few crimes by civilians occur with guns. Odd how a violent country with guns somehow commits crimes without guns. (Except Philipines. The state is also the mafia and they execute their own people en masse) 2. Most of those other countries … wouldn’t be considered civilized. Just cause they don’t have guns doesn’t make them civilized.
German logic: for safety reasons as little people as possible should own a gun US logic: as many people as possible should own a gun. Also for safety reasons 😂
Exactly, it's a cultural thing. For Germans, knowing that nobody else has a gun feels a lot like safety and freedom, as weird as this might sound to American ears and vice versa.
Who has suffered more coups from states and dictatorships in the USA or Germany? Sociopaths like Hitler would never have come to power if Jews or Communists had been more able to defend themselves than the average American. If the Jews could have armed themselves with RPGs, flamethrowers and machine guns it would have been impossible to be a Nazi. People are safer armed than unarmed. In the USA, even if we illegalized and removed all civilian weapons, there would still be problems, since the USA does not have a problem with weapons, but rather social problems that are aggravated by firearms.
@@xabierpozopozo9653 I really hope that you're not serious about what you wrote about Jews and Hitler, because if you are, you should really go back to history class. 🤔
@@roughneck2204 There's over 30 states that allow open carry. There are 28 states that have constitutional concealed carry, meaning you can carry concealed without a license. I live in one, but got my license anyway for reciprocity.
Open carry is legal in over half of states. 25 years ago I moved from California to Arizona. I had taken CCW training and had to pass a written test to buy my 1911 model 45 ACP. Very safe well made gun too. Never jams. I called Arizona prior to leaving and asked what I had to do to bring it in the state. She asked me if I was a felon and where I was coming from. I told her of course not, California and I followed state laws to purchase and register. She hung up on me. I was wasting her time.
USA: FBI background check, driver's license, age 18 up; some need tax stamps, a test, more forms, could wait a year... But private sales are easy and legal.
the latter is not true...until the injunction the other day, all private sales were illegal without an FFL involved, even in talking about it (or it was conspiracy to sell). Lawyers all over UA-cam advised it applied to everyone, not 20,000 people like the ATF claimed, given sale of even one private weapon for self defense purposes was not defined in the exemption, but instead was defined as outside the exemption. The injunction came less than 24hrs before it went into effect, and it does not apply to all States...so go research that before even discussing private sales right now. Look up "final rule ATF private sales".
@ArturArtur-nr6uv if you go through a ffl dealer (any gun store or gun show), you have to do a background check regardless of your state. Now, if it's a private sale, background checks may or may not be required. Now atf is trying to change this and require everyone who's selling a firearm to obtain an ffl but we'll see where that goes
Contrary to popular belief, murder, assault (which under US legal definition includes threats of harm), and brandishing a firearm ARE illegal in the US.
@noiosobear6284 And I stated the difference standing around rallies of people you don't like armed is most definetly brandishing as it is used in a threatening manner Why do you think I put Militia in quotes They should be completley legal (including autos) under the condition the person who wants to own them is Sane and capable of handling one Giving random 18yos off the street the ability to enter a store and come out with one within minutes is recipie for disaster
@@NoiosoBearPews 1. Why do you think I put Militia in quotes? 2. They should be completley legal including autos under the condition the owner is Sane and capable of handling them, letting random 18yos walk into a store and come out with one in minutes is recipe for disaster 3. Being openly armed and standing and following around people you don't like is arguably brandishing one as it is being used in a threatening manner.
@@NoiosoBearPews 1. As I said it was in quotes for a reason 2. I Meant in general not specifically rifles, anyone who wants to own a gun should have to do a process akin to the Czech one after which they are done with they should be able to apply for a restricted weapons liscense 3. It very much is brandishing If lets say your ex who you had a horrible relationship shorly after the breakup starts standing outside your house with a rifle it is brandishing
I'm from Brazil, we have gun control here. I wish it would be easy for law-abiding citizens to purchase guns to protect their houses and families. Illegal guns are everywhere, though. When you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns... and the government that might not be so friendly or democratic.
I thought Bolsonaro moved you a long way towards US style gun laws? I live in a functioning North European democracy where guns are strictly controlled (but there are A LOT of legal guns around here, especially in rural areas) and think US style gun regulation is laughable, but on the other hand, when illegal guns are so out of control as in the US or Brazil, you might as well arm the ordinary citizens too, just so theyre on an equal footing to the crooks.
@@andersbjrnsen7203 Bolsonaro did indeed made it easier for LAW ABIDING citizens to purchase gun, and still it didn't become as easy as in the US, one has to go through a full background check, take some psycological tests etc. Bolsonaro during his years in office had all the establishment, the judiciary, the media etc against him, not to mention pandemic hit. Once they got the corrupt communist thug out of prison and put him in the presidency and by stealing election from Bolsonaro, just like Maduro did now (our electronic voting machines leave no paper trail, and if anyone complains about it is thrown in jail) they got rid of all the good stuff Bolsonaro had implemented. Bolsonaro had decreased the state, abolished dozens of taxes, decresase all others, and still the public revenue went up, because more people were investing, opening business and started paying taxes. All that is gone now, and government spending is way above revenue not to mention we are a dictatorship now as anyone who is well informed is aware.
@@andersbjrnsen7203 He made it easier indeed, but not US Style easy. Murders went down over 25% and criminality in general went down over 30%. But all that was demolished once the commies took back power by 5t3aling elect10ns like Madur0 did.
That’s a damn shame, many parts of London you would definitely need one Switzerland has the best gun laws in Europe and is arguably the safest country there
German here. With the german hunting license i can buy as many long guns as you want and also SBRs and suppressors. I also own several Pistols, 10" AR, AK and more nice stuff. I also lived in Alabama Mobile for 2,5 years and shot extensively, same thing as i do now. Psycho test also only required for sports shooters under 25 with large cal. semi autos.
Lol, this is a major mischaracterization of how buying a gun goes in the US. We do in fact have regulations and checks around guns. And while you can privately own things like machine guns, by federal law that requires special, difficult to obtain, and expensive licensing.
Mental health can disqualify you from firearm ownership actually. We just don't force evaluations on people beforehand unless they already have a history that suggests that may be an issue. Then it comes up in their regular background check if they have been disqualified on those grounds.
Also keep in mind, just as individuals nations within the European Union may set their own gun laws, the same is true of individual US states, and some do have much stricter gun regulations than others. My original point with this statement was just that it does not work the way this video makes it appear like it does, it is satire not reality.
I traded a gun for an old truck once. Most American thing I ever done. The truck is on cinder blocks still, waiting for a new engine. Also the most American thing I ever done.
In almost all countries of the world its 16-18 to drink alcohol The reason why usa has this 21 rule. Is that you guys are not disciplined. There was mass ammount of alcoholics in the streets of usa back in the 1800s and early 1900s that it was getting out of hand Add second amendement into it. And its chaos Imagine hundreds of drunk people with revolver in their hand 😂 The 21 rule is cultural reason Even if today usa lowered it to 18. The number of crimes would triple. Cause too much18-20yo amerikans already cant behave sober or arent disciplined to act civilised. Cant imagine drunk 😆
These rules seen in Germany apply to most countries in Europe. You can buy a gun if you really want it but it's a long process which involves education, tests and training and hardly anyone cares. Carrying a gun is the rare exception not the norm.
Gun carrying in EU depends heavily on the country, I know in France it's illegal unless you're in the military or law enforcement, and I mean when in duty
@@Fighter4Streetthere are weapons for military or police and others, limited for civilians. In Spain, if you are a simple civilians, before, you get a gun you need to achieve the permission. Generally, are weapons for hunting of animals and rarely a pistol if you are special civilian in danger (this kind of gun is given by policemen). So there is a Big control in gun. For the police, security agent or the military is completely different. By job you must achieve the gun permission and you have more access to the great majority of the weapons depending of course of your job. I have a friend that is a security guard that has a pistol but only can use at the job, once he ended his job the gun is kept It in security place.
Let’s get a few things straight here. You cannot, just walk into a gun store in America, throw some cash on the counter and walk out with a mini gun or a rocket launcher… Machines guns and explosives are highly regulated in the US and also extremely expensive. It’s sort of like buying a jumbo jet. Sure, you can do it but most people simply can’t and even for the ones that can, it’s a process. To further elaborate, mini guns I don’t think are available to civilians at all. The company that makes them really only sells them to the government because the government can actually afford them. You might be able to buy certain, mostly old and outdated, launchers with enough money and assuming you can satisfy the necessary requirements to be able to be able to own something like that. The rockets on the other hand…well, at least the launcher will look really cool hanging on your wall.
It is also way easier to buy guns in Europe than shown in this video. If living on the countryside you are usualy allready a member of of a shooting club, or have done your hunting courses in school or with older relatives. I joined my first shooting club at age 12. The remaining paper work is quite easy. The video is exegerated for fun.
In the UK gun laws were as strict as Germany. Then after the Dunblane incident in 1996 nobody was allowed to keep a gun at home except for farmers and even then it had to be kept locked up.
And that's the only reasonable way. You can't have everyone have guns in a civil society. Yes, you're f'ed if you need to rise against your government. But in that case you'll have to make something up. In peace times, everoyne owning guns just endangers everybody else. Germany has ~7 school shootings in total, the US have ~7 per year.
Well that's unfortunate. I honestly cant imagine not owning a firearm... I'd feel like I was being treated like a teen who can't he trusted to stay out after dark lol.
@@zernicht9r286 In America American civilian ownership of arms is a safeguard against tyranny we have a 250 year track record of success without outside help, in Germany American soldiers stationed in your country are your safeguard against tyranny. If America hypothetically left Nato how could you be sure that Germany which is currently a strong democracy wouldn’t decline back into what it was pre 1945 over the course of a few decades? You really need to look at the bigger picture. If our troops pulled out of your country theres is no way to know if your government which doesn’t have significant separation of power wouldn’t devolve into tyranny again. Look at South American country’s they go through periods of military rule Venezuela was a strong democracy 25 years ago now it’s a 1 party state with rigged elections. They also have the highest murder rate in the world due to government sponsored anarchy to keep Maduro in power.
The issue with that in the US is that some areas can get it that fast while others can take 30+ mins on a serious call. Hence why people arm themselves to deal with the situation if it is needed. Also in 2-3 minutes a lot can happen, which could be either stopped or deterred entirely with the presence of a firearm in the possession of the potential victim(s).
Let me tell you a little story about the last time I wore pants. June of 2022, my wife was in the hospital giving birth to our second child. She says to me that I should call in a nurse, it's about time. I call up the nurse's station and tell them it's about time. A few minutes go by, no nurse shows up, and contractions aren't getting any farther apart. I call again. They tell me they'll be right there. About a minute later there's still no nurse, and my wife's water breaks. I'm about to call a third time when I look down and there's a head coming out of her. Nurse shows up a minute later to find me covered in blood and amniotic fluid having caught the kid. I put on the pants in my overnight bag, wash my kilt the next day, and I haven't worn pants since. The moral of that story is that just because the professionals are nearby, doesn't mean you can rely on them to handle your emergencies when you have a problem that needs to be handled right fucking now. If you have people you care about, you better be ready to get covered in blood for them at a moment's notice. Sometimes that means catching a baby. Sometimes that means someone is trying to hurt your babies. Prepare accordingly.
Meanwhile Europeans are flabbergasted that living in a country multiple times bigger and less densely populated than theirs might mean police response times vary depending on where you live. Gee I wonder why someone might want to own a firearm for self defense? I guess at least our police are allowed to have firearms and protect themselves from crazy knife welding drug addicts, so that's nice.
I think the more important question in all of this is: Which way of handling it has the higher probability of accidents and murder happening? I think its quite clear that more people die by shooting weapons, if there are more spread through a population. The same population with only knifes, or far fever guns will have a lower rate of those incidents -> less people die or get injured. I get your points, it's easier to threaten people with a gun, than without one. But even if the answers are correct, is the question the right one to ask? I think not.
That‘s another reason why I‘m glad I live in Austria. Two hours of basic instruction, a very simple online test, police background check, that‘s it. Takes about three to four weeks to get your first gun. Second and so on gun is easy, just go to the gun store and show your license.
Sad you can't use them to defend your family, though. Also the main reason for civilians to own guns is as a check on the government. People think that means actually starting something. In modern context it is just a deterrent. Sure, you would lose if it came to that, but it's not a fight the government can win without losing all support & legitimacy. It acts as some kind of check on unlimited power.
If you can actually read my first comment.. to expand on that, the thing that would probably help the most would be massively reducing the number of elected officials and giving greater authority to those that exist, while reaffirming rights such as self defense. In essence, a serf in medieval England with his lomgbow could bring a king to his knees successfully. Nobody has ever successfully rebelled against an entire parlaiment or congress.
That's pretty much the same system we have in Canada: Pass an easy on line test, do an in person class, send in the application, the RCMP would conduct a background check and about 4 weeks later I had my license in hand.
@@ChrisRand-gf7lzthat’s what I did in California also. Two week back ground check after all the training and test. I did do more than two hours training though. It was about 20 hours.
I live in NY, I went though a state back ground check, fingerprinted, three reference who the police called, and I had to speak with the police as well. And then before every purchase I still have to have a background check. And that part applies to EVERY legal purchase from a gun store in the ENTIRE united states.
basically uhh Germany: you need a license yap yap yap yap you need a reason for getting one yap yap yap government check yap yap yap USA: ye we'll just background check you real quick and you got gun
M134 mini is a nfa regulated weapon and all of those in private hands are tracked. Also, yes you have to do a background check. Also, Germany sells semi auto rifles and sbrs that you can’t buy in the USA. Also, you can buy aks in Germany. Walthers have a development center and production center in Germany.
@@jwhiskey242 16 variant rifles with gold stocks from the hk line from the mp5 to the mp7 to mp31-36 lines, 4 from the styler line and colt had four from its colt ar line. All 9-10.5 in. Making them sbrs. These variants were never offered to the USA market because to import would require modifications.
I actually know someone who has an M134. Ironically, he says he regrets it. Apparently the maintenance and ammo costs add up to more than the gun itself. The only reason he keeps it is cause he gets to say he legally owns a minigun, but he rarely ever shoots it.
From the USA here. I’m a female and I carry for protection. Firearms are the ‘great equalizer’ against a stronger opponent. They are a potential lifesaver against a criminal. It’s either me or them….
I'm shocked. In Europe I don't have to carry a gun and I still feel safe. Come to Poland. Here you can walk at midnight in the park or on the subway and nothing will happen to You. And no one needs a gun.
I can’t understand why there are any women, elderly, or disabled people who are against the carrying of firearms in public by citizens. It seems rather obvious that if you’re old or a 120 pound woman you’re probably not fighting off anyone empty-handed, even if they “only” want to steal your wallet.
No need for that kind of "protection" here in Austria. Or in Germany. Or most countries in Europe. USA and Americans seem to be extremely violent. And I know, that at least 1 harmless man going to his car is shot by a fearfull woman. Every day! So that is why we are against guns for everybody. Because many innocent people die.
And thats why Germans attacking with kives (almost 15.000 knife attacks last year). Or are these attackers really Germans? xD Its Illegal for Germans to protect them selfs against these "Germans" even with peper spray.
in turkey it is like "you can only buy a no license semi auto shotgun and slugs, pistols require 2 licenses, rifler require 3 lisenses" meanwhile shotgun slug: I can kill a bison yknow... l o g i c
That is kind of like in some states they want a 10 round magazine limit on a .22lr but also allow a Semi-Auto 12ga with a 10 round box mag of 000 buckshot.
What about the less lethal pistols for self defense? I live in Colombia and guns made in Turkey in 9mm P.A rubber "traumatic" pistols are very popular here.
No, it takes "Smoothbore Gun Licence" to buy a shotgun. Shotguns are widespread because the licence costs 35 times less than the pistol and grooved gun licence for possession. Carrying licence has strict conditions and costs even 4 fold of the possession(150 fold of the smoothbore) whereaes you can carry or transport your shotgun as long it is unloaded.
@@oguzhancan5477 Oh. I thought you only needed a license for open carrying and one for hunting if you wanna hunt. I thought possession of a shotgun didnt require a license.
What, and give yourself the ability to stop from being culturally enriched by muhammad and his cousins? Just remember; the good guys won 80 years ago and that's why you can't have a gun for self defense!
And still Germany is unsafe because none of this applies to actual criminals as they are per definition criminals and don't follow the law. Only applies to honest citizens.
Comparable gun deaths per capita US vs Germany. In 2021, the age-adjusted firearm homicide rate in Germany was 77 times lower than in the United States. So, the US is truly exceptional.
@@johnwren3976 Yeaaah but statistics and collection can be weird, rather look at homicide rates. Where while the US is still ahead, it is about 6x instead of 77x. Furthermore, I assume a lot of that is from gang violence, cartels and similarly related activities that do not affect the average person. I mean the rest of the Americas is truly insane if you look at it. So while firearm homicide is much higher, homicide is not that much higher. It should also be noted that in recent history Germany was much closer with the homicide rate, only 1/2 the current US rate. And even though it is a controversial topic, the US has a problem with immigration from countries with truly staggering homicide rates.
@@johnwren3976 Uh-huh. Now tell us where a majority of those gun deaths in the US happen at. Give you a hint. Democrat controlled cities with strict gun laws.
@@Gieszkanne its not true. In Poland you can cary CCW weapon to: selfdifence (hard to get for civilians), training, sport (easy to get), security. Cary weapon means in Poland loaded = bullet on chamber ready to use 😀
*tips fedora* Uhhhm actually 1: It is possible to own and carry a gun for self defense in Germany as long as you can proof that you are under a substantially larger threat to your life than the average person. Otherwise Germany is a non issue country. 2: There are other reasons to get issued a firearms owning license. For Self defense, for Shooting your own life stock, for so called Waffensachverständige (experts and researchers), for weapons you inherited, for commercial reasons (usually people who operate gun ranges or teach courses) and for financial reasons (usually, when the government bans something you already own and they can not legally disown you they'll just issue you a license). Also many things that are not considered Weapons elsewhere but need the same permit such as Flares for Boating are pretty easy to get as well. 3: You do not need to show any criminal record there will be an extended background check done in the background by the local firearms bureau. And there is only one group of people that actually have to do the psychological exam: Sport shooters between 21 and 24, that want to get a gun with a caliber larger than .22. I got my hunting license when I was younger than 25 and my sporting license when I was over 25. Never had to see a psychologist. 4: The hours for the so called Waffensachkunde are totally made up. You can just take a weekend course, that doesn't even take half as long. 5: You can not and do not need to schedule an Inspection berforehand. You can just send pics of your safe or use the receipt of your safe as proof you can safely store your guns. Once you actually own guns the authorities can come and inspect whether you store your guns correctly at any time unannounced. 6: There is no minimum weight for gun safes. If your safe is over 200kg you may store 10 instead of 5 Handguns if you have a safe of the lowest safety category you need to store guns in DE. Other than that the weight is irrelevant. lighter safes are legal. 7: You can get your sporting license in a year. less than that is not possible but it wont take 1.5 to 2 years. Also a hunting license can be obtained in less than a year.
Tldr bureaucratic nightmare. The Germans then have a privilege, not a Right, which can be arbitrarily constrained or taken at any time. Hitler did that too and how did that turn out?
I’ve always wanted to move to Germany but also pursue a dream of gunsmithing or becoming a guntuber, so glad to know I could potentially get that in Germany
@@JonasGutenwald-yj8th Gunsmithing is a very traditional profession in Germany. You usually take a 3 year apprenticeship (can be shortened) and then maybe make your gunsmithing "Meister" (comparable to a bachelors degree). There is an entire extensive educational program to gunsmithing. legally speaking you'd just need a gunsmithing license (Waffenherstellungslizenz) for which you'd just take a course and pass a written and oral exam. The course is not even mandatory, but man it is also a lot of legal and obscure technical stuff so you better be prepared. Being a guntuber while possible is kinda more difficult in germany. All the cool stuff that'd get you clicks is kinda difficult here. you can't have 10+ round longgun- or 20+ round handgun mags. Can't really do tactical shooting or use Man-targets (not even like Zombie silhouette). Also certain kinds of ammunitions or weapons are outright banned. This is all to say there are special permissions for all of that but it would probably be a bit overwhelming for a foreigner to obtain any of these. Also you should be rather profiecent in german if you actually consider a career in gunsmithing or something like that in germany. But hey anything is possible.
The ending sent me XD, just 5 seconds after owning the gun, Negligent discharge AND cherry ontop, "WHAT'RE YOU LOOKIN AT" perfection. dare i even say, chef's kiss
@@Mr.mustard. Seems like what they said most likley cause they feel like not everyone should be able to get a gun no problemo even if they are mentally ill
Here's the thing, in USA, gun ownership is a right, not a privilege. Also, there are numerous Supreme Supreme Court rulings that more or less states that government law enforcement does not guarantee individual safety as a right. An example of this is Town of Castle Rock vs. Gonzalez. Or DeShanny vs. Winnabego County Social services. Individuals in the USA are responsible for their own personal safety. Americans have a different mindset and worldview than most Europeans. Americans Question and Challenge Authority. Europeans prefer authority and order, also are also more trusting with their perspective governments. Most Americans don't blindly trust the government are more foot loose and fancy free. Our mantra is that our freedom doesn't end where your fear begins. Freedom is scary, deal with it. To quote on of our founding fathers Ben Franklin, Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. With all this being said that demonstrates differences in mindset, the 2nd Amendment "Right to Keep and Bear Arms shall not be infringed" A Big However this is not absolute. Rights do have limitations especially 2a. You simply can't buy a mini gun or rocket launcher from a gun shop 😅🤣 that's a very restrictive item. You need a manufacturers permit which is a type of federal firearms license. The process to get one of those is way more extensive than purchasing a regular gun in Germany. It's way more expensive. The cost for a manufacturers FFL is 15k. The next level of NFA items are Class 3's. Class 3 NFA items" refers to firearms and devices regulated under the National Firearms Act (NFA) Title II, which primarily include: machine guns (select-fire), short-barreled rifles (SBRs), short-barreled shotguns (SBS), suppressors (silencers), and "Any Other Weapons" (AOWs); essentially, firearms considered particularly dangerous due to their potential for rapid fire or high destructive capacity. It's not a simple and straightforward process to obtain a class three items. For Starters, extensive and multiple background checks with character references, you have to be fingerprinted through local law enforcement. It takes 6 months to a year to get approved. You also have to pay a $200 tax stamp. That's for restricted items. Also, for machine guns, you can't own one made after 1986. You do have to be a law-abiding citizen or permanent resident to purchase and possess a gun in the USA. To purchase a regular firearm including scary semiautomatic renditions of military firearms. Aka "assault weapons" according to the media. You have to have a clean criminal record, no felonies, and have two forms of ID with you. You submit to a background check through our NICS instant background check system. You fill out Form 4473. Things like being convicted of a felony, drug abuse or use, being on a red flag list, being convicted of a domestic and or violent assault resulting in a misdemeanor and have a restraining order against you. also being institutionalized for being mentally unstable. All these things will bar you from legally owning a firearm. That's the federal minimum. Some states have more restrictive firearms laws. This includes bans and restrictions on cosmetics and ammunition feeding devices. Meaning limits on stock design and magazine capacity. Additional background checks, along with waiting periods, are not uncommon. I hope this clarifies the stereotype that in the USA, Americans are not trigger-happy, blood thirsty Savages. We do have gun laws. We are civilized. Self-defense is legal. However, in a self-defense shooting, most jurisdictions district attorneys will prosecute you for 2nd degree murder the burden of proof that it was self-defense is up to you. You will have to prove it in court. We do have strict laws regarding self-defense. Using a gun in self-defense is the very last thing any human being wants to do. There are a lot of moral and psychological problems associated with it. Carrying and self-defense is a huge moral responsibility. European governments typically don't allow their citizens to have that responsibility. Gun ownership in the US is not only a right but an obligation and responsibility.
@@kilovolt2494 Anything that is not automatic rifles or submachine guns. Self-loading shotguns or hunting rifles are limited to three rounds. And any hunter will say that this is ok as you fire ONE precise shot at your deer or boar and that is it.
@@christiankastorf4836Die Dreischussregel gilt nur für die aktive Jagdausübung. Als Jäger darf man auf dem Schießstand genauso wie jeder andere Schütze ein 10-Schussmagazin benutzen.
@@huexley That’s not entirely true-it depends on the regulations. I have an AB-K license, and I had to undergo a two-hour interview with the police. Additionally, I was required to provide a security plan for the room where the firearms are stored. If they choose to, they can even schedule an appointment to inspect the room themselves. It’s not overly complicated in Switzerland, but it’s certainly not as simple as some might claim.
@@dariopitocchi3398 Probably depends on the Canton, in Neuchatel its really as simple as that. Also the police officer I spoke with was a super cool guy !
German Sport Shooter here. There is no mandatory psychology test unless you are unter 25 and want a "big caliber gun". And no test for hunters at all. There are no mandatory hours. It is just a year of membership in a shooting federation and 12 regularly or 18 inregularly trainings within this year. There is no additional insurance except for hunters, that is all covered in the federation membership
@Predator42ID you can't OWN anything bigger as an Sport Shooter without a medical approval If you are under 25. Over 25 or as an Hunter, no medical Tests for Center Fire.
Actually, in order to "buy" that minigun you'd have to acquire an FFL/SOT license or pick one up that was legally owned by someone prior to 1986, making it transferrable.
Meanwhile Switzerland, Austria, Check Republik and Poland out here with some of the most relaxed gun laws in Europe and still less gun crime than Germany... 😂 LOL 😂
and the German government hates it. They all always complaining that there citizens can move in Austria and buy a gun and ammo without a licence in just three days.
Not true: Gun violence related deaths per 100k (2019 data): Austria: 0.15 Czech Rep.: 0.16 Germany: 0.1 Poland: 0.09 Switzerland: 0.21 So, joke's on you I guess?
@@davedavids57 nope - I double-checked. that's a separate statistic, where Switzerland actually ranks highest among these countries: Suicide rate per 100k (using guns): Austria: 1 Czech Rep.: 1 Germany:
@@totalermist I think what's causing confusion is the statistics are pretty misleading because the numbers of gun homicides are so low they statically bounce around year on year. They are really really dependent on the year and single events, like mass shootings especially in Germany. For Example if you look at total gun homicides in Austria, they range from a high of 20 in 2009 to as low as 5 in 2012 with the latest figures I could find of 13 2022. It's even starker in Czechia where the numbers range from 0 in 2018 (that's no record whatsoever) to 10 in 2022 with an average around 4-10 per year. In Switzerland they do the same from a high of 24 in 2009 to a low of 7 in 2014 and the latest available figures I could find of 9 in 2020. Germany being a much bigger country tends to have rates that fluctuate a lot less with a high of around 75 in 2009 and an average of about 50 per year but even this is effected by large last shootings.
You can actually get guns for self-defense in Germany. You just need to show sufficient proof that you are under genuine threat that's not just gonna go away after a few days of police protection. State persecutors and such can, under certain circumstances, apply for a gun for self-defense. In essence, those licenses are unicorns.
You have to be a friend of the police in or if that happened. It's the same way in California, where if you want to get a carry permit, you need to justify why. There was a woman that I knew that had a stalker who was recorded breaking his restraining order and had an active arrest warrant and they still denied her.
@@wiseguy3696 It's not a matter of being a friend of the police, it's a matter of legalities here. In the case you named, you'd still be denied a carry permit here as well, because that's an individual the police can track and deal with. If you've got a whole plethora of convicted felons after you though...
@@Rabascan well yeah, the point of gun control is to keep the poor unarmed. Who is more likely to be convicted of a crime, a poor person or a wealthy one? You cannot buy or possess a firearm in the US if you have a felony. In much of Europe, you cannot get one with even a misdemeanor.
@@Rabascan it's not about how many or what type, it's about who has access to them. There are collectors both in the US and Europe that have thousands of firearms in their collection, but they are rarely, if at all, dangerous individuals. By limiting WHO has access to firearms, that is how low gun crime is achieved. The deliberate targeting of groups likely to commit such crimes is imperative. The largest and most easily identifiable groups are the poor. There's peer-reviewed research on this by Boston University. I am not worried about any gun control affecting me in the US because I am wealthy enough, white, and I'm a government employee. I will always have access to firearms, even if the 2nd amendment goes away. I have enough friends in the police department so I have a written exception by a judge to allow me to own assault rifles in California. If there is a drastic increase in gun control in the US, I am not going to be the target. Just like in 1994, the target is going to be minorities. There's a reason the black prison population increased 400% from 1994 to 2004 while the assault weapons ban was in place, and why the band was specifically written to Target weapon designs and attachments that were favored by minority communities.
@@Theo-c9x6h prohibiting certain races/groups from owning guns is still a form of gun control. Venezuela has strict gun control but pro maduro militia members are permitted to and encouraged to stockpiles small arms.
@morganhillfightclub2996 Still, the total population was more armed than today. So, no, the 3rd Reich did not benefit from an unarmed population it benefited from an unarmed minority.
Yea you're right. Hey Radical what's the big idea?? You know damn well that German funny is strictly verbotten! It's a law of nature. If Germans start telling funny jokes then the whole fuckin' universe will implode
You don't know how many satirists we have in Germany, lots of them! But they're not as dull as J. Kimmel, more like the British John Oliver. Far too high for most Americans.
@@arnodobler1096yeah and German humour is very referential so you simply don't get it if you don't get the culture. It's basically like a large inside joke.
1,5 years? It took like 3 months for me, but in Russia. 1-day training, obtaining hunting license, medical checks, police "Waffenschrank" check, and police background check.
"I don't believe in the public owning guns, only the police and military, and I'm gonna do whatever I can to disarm this state." - M Dukakis, five-foot-nothing girly man
@@fryingpanhead8809 Michael Dukakis?! He's almost 91 years old and said that back in 1988! More than half of the US population wasn't even born yet in 1988. I'm not sure I'd focus on quoting people born before World War 2 in nursing homes for current Massachusetts policy stances.
our gun laws here in the US are both a blessing and a curse we do need something to help filter out crazy but i have to say my grandfather used to talk about bringing a shotgun to school for show and tell and everyone was fine with it lol clearly something broke between then and now.
The purpose of gun control is to keep guns out of the hands of poor people. After all, the people most likely to commit gun violence are low income individuals living in high income areas, or in other words, poor people living in cities. That's why requiring things like mental health checks and licenses are popular among the gun control debate because they drastically increase the cost of obtaining a firearm, and are harder for low income people to achieve
@@wiseguy3696 I suppose that's the problem with rights. They apply to poor people as well. Also, we may need to go check. But I'm pretty sure these school shooters aren't poor. I know the kids from Columbine weren't.
@@joncarbone considering you would have to reach all the way back to Columbine to find an example of a non-poor mass shooter, is a pretty good record. Especially since Columbine happened during the 94 assault weapons ban.
Can you imagine if “you have to have a legitimate government approved reason for owning one” was applied to anything else on the market. Cars, axes, wrenches, lawn mowers, knives, TVs, furniture, archery, hammers, shovels, tents, video games, etc? Car Salesman: “Why do you want to buy a car?” Buyer: “to drive?!” Car Salesman: “Nein, that’s not a legitimate reason. I cannot sell you a car.”
Well surely anything can become a weapon if used in the right way but i think you would agree its more difficult to kill someone with tv or lawn mower than with automatic rifle. Thus there should be stricter regulations on such things...
Here in Brazil is The same That Germany or worse. The gov wants to disarm all Good mans. Meanwhile, The criminals bring heavy auto Guns from orient countries. Someone in The Sky help us, please!!!!
Fact is in germany every german citizen can have a gun by the age of 18 without a license if it's a full functional replica of a black powder pistol or rifle that was produced before 1st January of 1871, sure it produces a lot of smoke it's big and clumsy and you have to reload it after each shot and reloading takes forever but it's as deadly as a modern weapon
Wouldn't call them "as deadly as" a modern semiautomatic. You can certainly end more targets with a modern semi than an antique black powder gun. Both can be deadly. But one is deadlier.
@@JanFWehMost of the old black powder muzzleloading pieces are larger caliber than modern smokeless powder firearms. Who wants to get shot with a .50 cal? I'd imagine the cast lead bullets would also have a tendency to leave a messier wound channel than modern FMJ rounds, acting closer to a hollow point though not as extreme as a modern self defense hydra-shok self defense round.
We can have normal pistols with up to 20-round magazines. That's better than California! And once you have a gun permit, you can actually mail-order guns *and* ammo online and get it delivered to your doorstep!
This is probably the most realistic satirization of US gun laws I've ever seen a European make. I don't mean that in a depreciative manner, either. I sell firearms in North Carolina under an FFL. I am reasonably knowledgeable about gun laws and the way they're enforced here. Some things you got right are the tendency for people to try to pick something excessive. In the US, it's only in the past 25 or so years that 9mm has gotten the respect it really deserves on the civilian market, and only in the past 5 or so years that .380 has as well. In Germany, a Walther PP in .32 ACP may be seen as a decent, if antequated option for a defensive handgun, in the US, it's considered a mouse gun, and way too many people would never want to be seen shooting a "girl's gun." The store I work at actually had a Black Friday deal when I started, buy a Taurus G2C, get a free Heritage Rough Rider. There is a tendency to say the US doesn't check the people buying guns, and that is true in most states, but only for private party transfers, which see as much oversight as selling old electronics do in most places, and even then, some states require all transfers to go through a licensed dealer, and some even still require registration. It is worth noting that registration doesn't actually stop crimes, and criminals are legally exempt from any firearm registration scheme due to the Supreme Court case Haynes v. United States, which found that, since the 5th Amendment protects people against compulsory self-incrimination, requiring a prohibited person to register is a violation of the 5th Amendment. See, we know about more than just the 2nd Amendment. Another thing that is legal under federal law is the gifting of firearms. In fact, the form that is required for transfer, called ATF Form 4473, Firearms Transaction Record, is just that, a record of a firearm transaction. The form is subject to change, but as of the time I write this, question 21a asks "Are you the actual transferee/buyer of all the firearms listed on this form..." Basically, even if the intended owner of the firearm is not the person paying for it, even if the intended owner of the firearm is standing in the store, the form has to be filled out by the person actually paying for the firearm. We are frequently instructed to deny sales if the person pays on a card not in their name, or if someone else tries to pay for the firearm. Anyway, I found the video entertaining.
@@kwinzman @kwinzman In my opinion using a gun is never self defense. Self defense is about stopping an attack and for this purpose you can use less harmful tools like bags, umbrellas, chairs or simply run away.
0:30 I know this is a joke, but you need like a whole lot of paperwork in America for most different types of guns there’s only like I think a few different types of guns where you don’t really need that much paperwork for it I would say
Well for any full auto weapons you have to pay a 250 dollar tax stamp via the nfa all semi auto rifles you can get same day with a background check also it varies state to state but for handguns there is a 3 to 7 day wait unless you have a concealed weapon permit and last but not least excuse my punctuation I'm just a dumb American
Not really. In free American states (everywhere but the northeast, Illinois and the west coast) among the United States, you walk in, find the gun you want, fill out a form that takes less than five minutes, they run a quick criminsl background check over the phone or on computer with ATF which takes 2 minutes. You pay money and walk out with your gun. That’s it. And in many states now, you don’t need permission to concealed or open carry that gun from the moment you leave the store.
That's not true. You can buy most everything with minimal paperwork, less than a phone purchase. If you want a suppressor or fully automatic weapon then you have to fill out another form and pay a $250 tax.
@@lordvader3425 It actually protects some rights better than the US Constutution. For example, we have stronger privacy laws and rights. Things like the NSA spying scandal would have been much harder to pull of here. Many practices US agencies use to surveil the US Citizens are illegal here.
As an American, I always hear about how we have such high gun violence. Yet, this is really only in very urban parts of some major cities. Remove our top 6 or 7 murder cities from that statistic and we actually have fewer murders than even many European countries. But, even then, our homicide statistics are often misleading. What I'd really like is to know how many crimes were stopped by good people with guns. These generally aren't reported because no crime even occurred. We have little kids that have stopped home invasions with their parents' guns. Women need not fear going out in public by themselves because guns give them the ability to defend themselves from any criminal seeking to harm them. I'd never live in a country like Germany. Yes, there, less guns means less gun violence. But, you still have bad people everywhere. I'm not worried about the criminals. I'm worried about being able to protect myself from them. No country has zero crime.
@eaglestryker1338 This is true, though not absolute. Also, states like Texas would be up there, except for cities like Houston and San Antonio. Houston is one of the most violent cities, largely due to gang violence. And, San Antonio, is starting to be compared to Chicago. But, it still depends on what part of the city. I live near San Antonio. Some parts are extremely safe while others are extremely unsafe.
One of the tricky part about gun related homicide rates is they include self-inflicted among them. Which is about a third of the total. As far as the urban issues, that could be cleaned up if those cities' governments actually applied real methods. Instead they use methods that chip away at the problem indefinitely. They do this so the agencies and people running them don't suffer from their own successes.
Are you freakin' serious?? When I left DFW in the 1990s there were an average of 400 - 500 homicides per year in each Fort Worth AND Dallas!! Not to mention the so-called "mid-cities". Here in Germany we get about about 1 - 2 gun deaths per city per decade! In Germany no one has ever threatened my life in the last thirty years. In DFW back then I was running for my life a couple of times a month. No thanks! I'm staying here in the civilized world in Germany!! It's a paradise here!
You are technically allowed by German law to defend yourself with your guns in your own home. You're even allowed to carry in your own home or your own place of business. Self-defense is just not a valid reason to *get* a gun permit. And, they will probably lock you up these days if you use a gun to defend your home. They'll definitely find a reason why you could have, should have retreated or used a less lethal way of defending yourself.
@@highks496 wrong, you are not allowed to protect yourself in Germany with ANY weapon. Not a Knife and not a gun. Forget it. if you do, you will go to jail. Dont forget that since Merkel ruined Germany, we must accept the Muslim violence. So..
this is a misrepresentation or an exxageration of american laws. you still have to go through a background check for every gun you buy, and no you currently cant buy functioning rocket launchers here. btw, if germany looked at its own somewhat recent history the people would realize that gun control against a certain population by a certain regime in the 30s and 40s helped with thee murder of millions in that particular population. that alone is a great reason to not be in favor of civilian gun control
Actually, gun ownership is not really that heavily restricted in Germany. There is a lot of bureaucratic red tape, but at the end of the day, it's not really uncommon to have 10, 20 or 30 guns. The major difference is not the right to own but the right to carry. The latter is extremely restricted in, I would say, most developed countries globally, with a few exceptions in Europe like Czechia.
As an Aussie I can say half the point of the bureaucracy is besides weeding out the crazies is the amount of paperwork alone deters ne'er-do-wells at the gate
@@makvande576 its not that easy to get a gun illegally, at least not really quickly. so it def does deter people, especially those who want to do something in a spur of the moment thing. then there is the risk involved in buying illegally, as a lot of those (at least in germany) have been infiltrated by the police so suddenly after you buy your gun, police might "get a tip from a concerned citizen" (aka, their own secret department) about you owning an illegal gun and they will take it away and throw you in prison. the crime statistics of basically every country are online. just look them up. doing it this way is obviously better. the numbers are extremely clear
@@MrEvilTag In Austria they are if i remember correctly, but this doesnt need to be carried over, its also not allowed to transport loaded detachable magazines there, wich is not regulated in germany, if memory serves me well.
@@MrEvilTag I think in Germany they arent as prevelant although legal. Side by sides are more widespread also because of Ammo limitations when hunting. For sportshooting they are treated like Semi-Auto Rifles Pistols and Revolvers.
The USA one is very INACCURATE! You've obviously never actually bought a gun from a gun store. I can quite assure you that you will NEVER see a BOGO sale on guns, and a dufus like the clown behind the counter would be fired for incompetence on his first day.
@@tadej3954 *not rich* is what you mean. I have a decent job and am not poor but I have no interest in buying a 40 year old uzi thats the price of a brand new car due to a BS law plus if they ever opened up the NFA registry that $40,000 Uzi would suddenly be worth $1000 and I would be down $39,000 theoretically Trump could appoint a gun rights advocate to ATF director and create “Amnesty periods” to register new machine guns and he could do that without even passing a law.
As an American, I don’t mine countries with stricter gun laws, it’s just the crazy stuff like self defense not being considered a valid reason to own a gun that drives me up the wall.
This video appears to be made by someone who had no idea about buying a gun in the States, you first have to be 18 for long guns or 21 for hand guns/pistols, then you have to fill out a 4473 form (background check) that checks it against the NICS system (FBI and ATF) then if you get a "proceed/go ahead" from the check you can then purchase the firearm and the serial is recorded on the paperwork to track the sale, those forks are also required to be kept and maintained by the seller for several years. It isn't like buying a candy bar from the gas station.
Only honest people follow the rules. Dangerous people already have guns or obtain them illegally. But we still need regulations for weapons. Some people should never have one.
Everyone knows at least one person, that friend, workmate or a family member, that should never be allowed to hold a weapon in their life. With all european rules I still know such a person that does in fact own guns XD
I agree some people shouldn’t have guns but honestly, it’s pretty naive to believe it is possible to prevent crazies, terrorists and criminals from obtaining a firearm. They will always manage to get one regardless of gun laws in place.
@@Silent_Ears Depends the Country. Australia has a lot easier time then America, for obvious reasons. This just means America has a long way to go before it can be trusted with Firearms.
In the Czech Republic you can carry a gun for self-defense and the psychological examination and a clear criminal record are also necessary. Just not taking so long.
Reminds me of the scene from the first terminator where Arnold walks into the gun store looking like the biggest and most dangerous psycho in the world, and the gun store owner is just so eager to sell him everything he needs to carry out his mission. (Destorying the whole police department)
@@mihanich When was the last time people in Germany spoke their minds openly? 😁 (I don't really know. I am just estimating from my perspective of my own country, Greece)
Texan here: people own and carry guns every day as they would carry a cell phone, wallet and car keys. Its never been a problem. It solves problems, in fact. It is the right of self defense by the people of the states. It is also a check on absolute power. The United States are a Union of British colonists…we learned from our ancestors what tyrants and kings of Europe can do with absolute power. That’s why the people being armed, in some instances required as a duty, is such a sacred right that is protected and a culture that most of us value.
Thank you for the background information. I'm just wondering: As the murder rate per capita is about ten times higher in the USA compared to Germany, what problems do guns solve in everyday life?
@@MaxMustermann-vu8ir a couple of things about those figures: first, the United States are not a single nation. It is about 6 different cultural regions, 50 sovereign states and numerous cities and small towns with varying problems, prosperity, interests and crime. In real America, the places I’m talking about that value the right to keep and bear arms, are places where crime is very low and people are armed. Guns are also legal and easy to buy. Nobody is frightened at the site of a gun just being on a person or them practicing with one on their property or on a public range. These are places where chiefly honest citizens work and live. The places where crime rate are highest are places where the right to keep and bear arms are not valued. It is either illegal or seen as equal to being a criminal. In short, it’s in high crime places where only criminals have guns. Many people in these areas are conditioned to be victims and equate a gun to having illegal drugs, stolen property or having warrants by the police. (Probably about 2% of the entire USA landscape making up cities like New York, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New Orleans, etc.) These are areas in extreme poverty and crime. And the bad guys they don’t walk into a gun store and buy a gun, they get them on the black market. It is often said that the United States has the most “gun violence” in the world. This is very misleading as it includes things like suicides, accidents, etc and ignores violent crime and problems in other countries around the world. The USA is not even in the top 10 for gun deaths. As for solving problems: somebody assaults or tried to rob you, you are able to defend yourself and your family. A riot breaks out in your city, you can defend yourself and your home or place of business. It can even be a fun social gathering among friends meeting at the range, teaching people who have never fired a gun before, putting them at ease and enjoying the company. On a larger scale, it is a check on absolute power to have am armed law abiding population of citizens. The government will be a lot more careful and limited on what they can do to the population if said population is armed. Get this: most local police, sheriffs and law enforcement are in favor of this and are often found participating in above social gatherings.
... orrrrrr, if you live in Berlin, talk to some of these teenagers shooting guns to celebrate new years eve, I'm pretty sure they went through all the legal procedure 🤣🤣🤣
As he said they are pretty much all Legal Blank guns that would destroy themselfes if they would shoot a real bullet. You can buy them and have them at home if you are above 18years and if you want to carry them outside you need to get a „Little weapon licence“ witha small background chec. But most of them carry them illegally because it’s not allowed to shoot them outdoors at new years
You can see it again straight away. People don't even manage to follow the laws when it comes to blank pistols. What would happen if they could buy real weapons relatively easily?
@@SheratanLP when you commit a crime like drug dealing and have an (il) legal gun on you your sentence will rise to the maximum sentence. The problem is that a blank gun counts in there too.
Our gun laws aren't in place because some tyrants imposed them on us, but because WE, THE PEOPLE want them to be that way. If you can read statistics you should be able to understand how insane your laws are. On the other hand you aren't allowed to have a beer on a public park bench. When it comes to freedom you guys really have the wrong priorities.
@@Silent_Ears ah yes the land of the free ... where you can be arrested for drinking alcohol in public. Land of the free ... where a woman can be arrested for seeking medical aid outside the state. The land of the free ... with the highest amount of people behind bars per capita in the world. ROFLMAO oh, and the only 1st world country with active shooter drills in schools and the only country where child deaths caused by guns is the highest.
@jamesholden6142 so yes or no. Wouldn't it be a good ideal for gun owners, especially first-time owners, to know how to handle a firearm safely? I've worked in a gun store. It's concerning how many people seem to get their firearms "knowledge" from TV, movies, and video games.
@jinksomiabodyart3189 how about why? You don't think people learning the safe handling of firearms is a good ideal? I've worked in a gunstore. It's interesting seeing how many people get their firearms "knowledge" from TV, movies, and video games.
For the United States: - Mostly, you have to purchase any firearm from a licensed FFL. If you yet caught trying to do a straw purchase, you get hit with a felony (and now you're prohibited from owning firearms). - NICS/FBI background check, unless in some states you already have a weapons carry permit. You still have to fill out a 4473 but you might not have to do the background check. If you've done drugs, assaulted someone, were committed to a mental institute, etc..., you'll be denied. - After the background check, you can get approved in a few seconds, days, weeks, or sometimes longer. Once approved, the transfer of the firearm can go forward. However, if denied, you're out of luck. - NFA items (SBR's suppressors, etc...) require a $200 tax stamp and some other annoying hassles.
I think that in a country which has experienced both the Holocaust and nearly five decades of Soviet rule over the last century, respecting your government when they tell you you have no right to self defense is... An interesting position. And where do you draw the line without bringing industrialized society to a crashing halt? Arson is a spectacular and extremely effective method of mass murder and fertilizer is hardly the only base for explosives, should we be doing background checks every time you fill up your gas tank? Every time you buy a bottle of bleach, or stump remover, or drain cleaner, or hydrogen peroxide, or nail polish remover, or Sterno, or fine steel wool, the list goes on?
The silly thing is rent an apartment in Austria and within three days you can buy all the guns and ammo you want (as long as it's not semi automatic and under 60cm). This annoys the German government very much.
Which approach to firearms is better? USA's trigger-happy laws or Germany's rigid regulation?
I think the School of Duty kill counts speak for themselves lol
One is very easy, i like it!
Another is overly complicated process that takes around a year and a half maximum if everything goes quickly. But hey a 20 training at shooting range is a great one!
Idk kinda hard here...
Laws can't be rigid enough if we're talking about civilian weapons, tbh. :3
is that even a question for a non american nutjob?
Oh no! Buying a tool that can easily take multiple human lives at a range needs rigid regulations? How could that possibly be? My brilliant american ass can't understand that at all! /s
Isn't two years a bit fast for the bureaucracy?
No, it is realistic: Police background check (not good for you if you are known to have started fights or got caught blind drunk behind the wheel, the legal term is "lack of characteristic responsibility) takes a few weeks. Then you have to get in to contact with a shooting club and they will be critical when you show signs of "trigger-happiness" or get crazy the moment they give you a gun to practice under the watchful eyes of one of their members as an instructor. And then there is the course that you have to take in gun technics, gun safety and law, law, law. Two years are in fact a bit long. In most cases it works much faster.
Don't complain bro i may not want a g_n but any less beurocracy is good okay
Germans.
Don't remind them they can be slower.
Most efficient German government office
Gun laws in Serbia is almost like in Germany thats why 90% of people have gun without licence
and USA has about 5 time bigger homicide rate than both Germany and Serbia
Eeee, brate Srbine
Not in Germany, they don't
Well they were also being given out like toys about 30 years ago and they haven't all been gotten back.
Homemade SMGs!
Surprised by the fact they actually sell guns in Germany
Guns are sold in most countries.
hunting is popular through out europe so naturally they would even with very sensible gun laws keeping the crazies away from gun sane people with a legitimate use can still get one... it just takes a while..
Germany is quite good at selling weapons xD
Netherlands too! Almost the same rules as germany i see now
@@ZerqTM longhoused
A Gatling gun with an electric motor is a machine gun. It can only be sold to the general public if it was registered before 1986. Hand cranked Gatling guns are much more affordable and they are not considered machine guns.
Getting a fully automatic weapon just requires extra tax stamps, it's about getting dollars, nothing else. Just like suppressors, tax stamp, only about money.
It also requires an ATF registration that costs $200 per gun
Can I attach my cordless drill to the hand crank?
@@DonkeyHotey-l2eNo, that would make it a Machine gun I believe. I wouldn't risk it. Lol
@@Elsureel There are some other exceptions. A Maxim gun made prior to November 1924 as of this writing would be legal to transfer without the tax stamp or ATF validation (I believe), depending on your locale. It's the "curio" law, and it's as asinine as exempting cars made before 1975 being exempt from smog regulations. You're still going to spend a boatload buying them or restoring them. Also, cars AFTER 1975 must still have an original smog certification and equipment (catalytic converter). As a side note, there was an attempt to bump up the exemption in California to 1983 but it failed. Go figure. Newer cars developed in the late 70s and early 80s which had a much lower rate of pollution can't be exempted. As you said, it's all about that cash.
In America owning guns is a right, in Europe owning guns is a privilege.
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In America it’s also a privilege. Your rights can be taken away so quickly and easily it’s not even funny
@@vitalityfox only in demokrat state
No, it is both a right and a privilege. If you abuse that right by: murdering, committing a crime, etc. You will lose the right to own a weapon because if you say murdered someone, you would have violated their rights to live, and if you don't value or respect others' rights, you forfeit yours. Of course, we also have due process, which is 100% a part of those rights, but if convicted, you do lose some of your rights.
@@zacharyfreelove6101 That's the problem in the US there are new laws called "red flag laws" where your rights can be taken without due process. It also breaks the 6th amendment because the person being accused are supposed to be able to face their accuser so that if the claims are false the accuser could be held accountable.
So say you break up with a girlfriend or get into an argument with someone you know if they want to be petty they could claim you own a gun and are being a danger to yourself and others even if you are not then the police will come down arrest you and confiscate your property. Even if it clears that you were not being violent you must go to court to get your property back and prove your innocence. That's the opposite of how US courts are supposed to work where the defendant is innocent until proven guilty. And through this whole process you will never know who accused you and they will never be punished for filing a false report.
People in Asia: You mean there are shops selling guns where people can go buy a gun? 😲
The Philippines has millions of gun owners and their guns cost them 2-3 months wages. Even in Japan there are gun shops although with the rural population falling there are fewer hunters and sports shooters.
Phillipines and Thailand are very large gun owning communities
@@alecubudulecu Well yeah, was speaking in reference to civilized gun-free asian states like Singapore and Malaysia, as opposed to brutish Phillipines/Thailand
@@utubenewb1265those gun shops don’t sell to hunters. Only collectors. The guns are heavily modified to be inert (barrels plugged and welded shut. Bolts welded closed.
@@self.destructr1. The brutish countries you mention. Very few crimes by civilians occur with guns. Odd how a violent country with guns somehow commits crimes without guns. (Except Philipines. The state is also the mafia and they execute their own people en masse)
2. Most of those other countries … wouldn’t be considered civilized. Just cause they don’t have guns doesn’t make them civilized.
German logic: for safety reasons as little people as possible should own a gun
US logic: as many people as possible should own a gun. Also for safety reasons 😂
Exactly, it's a cultural thing. For Germans, knowing that nobody else has a gun feels a lot like safety and freedom, as weird as this might sound to American ears and vice versa.
Who has suffered more coups from states and dictatorships in the USA or Germany?
Sociopaths like Hitler would never have come to power if Jews or Communists had been more able to defend themselves than the average American.
If the Jews could have armed themselves with RPGs, flamethrowers and machine guns it would have been impossible to be a Nazi.
People are safer armed than unarmed. In the USA, even if we illegalized and removed all civilian weapons, there would still be problems, since the USA does not have a problem with weapons, but rather social problems that are aggravated by firearms.
@@xabierpozopozo9653 I really hope that you're not serious about what you wrote about Jews and Hitler, because if you are, you should really go back to history class. 🤔
@@xabierpozopozo9653 That's meant to be a satirical joke, right? Right!?
The country where the fewest people die from firearms is right.
The last part is completely false. Open carry is only legal in a few states, and brandishing is illegal everywhere.
@@fuxkag3908very legal
28 states last I checked open carry is legal. I almost always open carry
@@roughneck2204 There's over 30 states that allow open carry. There are 28 states that have constitutional concealed carry, meaning you can carry concealed without a license. I live in one, but got my license anyway for reciprocity.
@@hlalakar4156 same with me.
Open carry is legal in over half of states. 25 years ago I moved from California to Arizona. I had taken CCW training and had to pass a written test to buy my 1911 model 45 ACP. Very safe well made gun too. Never jams. I called Arizona prior to leaving and asked what I had to do to bring it in the state. She asked me if I was a felon and where I was coming from. I told her of course not, California and I followed state laws to purchase and register. She hung up on me. I was wasting her time.
USA: FBI background check, driver's license, age 18 up; some need tax stamps, a test, more forms, could wait a year... But private sales are easy and legal.
the latter is not true...until the injunction the other day, all private sales were illegal without an FFL involved, even in talking about it (or it was conspiracy to sell). Lawyers all over UA-cam advised it applied to everyone, not 20,000 people like the ATF claimed, given sale of even one private weapon for self defense purposes was not defined in the exemption, but instead was defined as outside the exemption. The injunction came less than 24hrs before it went into effect, and it does not apply to all States...so go research that before even discussing private sales right now. Look up "final rule ATF private sales".
@@tonypalmentera7752 might be illegal but still easy. 😉🤣
It depends by state, not every state background check
@@ArturArtur-nr6uvthat is an outright lie. If you are buying from a dealer you have to go through a nics background check.
@ArturArtur-nr6uv if you go through a ffl dealer (any gun store or gun show), you have to do a background check regardless of your state. Now, if it's a private sale, background checks may or may not be required. Now atf is trying to change this and require everyone who's selling a firearm to obtain an ffl but we'll see where that goes
Just a minigun?
I was expecting him pulling out a picture of a USS Navy battleship cannon
tanks and battleships you can get second hand on the local fleamarket 😆
@@RadicalLiving Can confirm, saw a couple buy one the other day. Say the least no one's messing with them.
@@energymass7944 might have been mine, once I got my tank running I didn't need that one any more
Ah, the United States Ship Navy Battleship
Tanks and gunboats are only sold on Tuesdays from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. It was probably a Monday.
Contrary to popular belief, murder, assault (which under US legal definition includes threats of harm), and brandishing a firearm ARE illegal in the US.
So why aren't all those "militia" members arrested for carrying in the street
@@NoiosoBearPews Id argue standing around a LGBTQ Rally while being a member of the proud boys is brandishing a weapon
@noiosobear6284
And I stated the difference standing around rallies of people you don't like armed is most definetly brandishing as it is used in a threatening manner
Why do you think I put Militia in quotes
They should be completley legal (including autos) under the condition the person who wants to own them is
Sane and capable of handling one
Giving random 18yos off the street the ability to enter a store and come out with one within minutes is recipie for disaster
@@NoiosoBearPews
1. Why do you think I put Militia in quotes?
2. They should be completley legal including autos under the condition the owner is Sane and capable of handling them, letting random 18yos walk into a store and come out with one in minutes is recipe for disaster
3. Being openly armed and standing and following around people you don't like is arguably brandishing one as it is being used in a threatening manner.
@@NoiosoBearPews
1. As I said it was in quotes for a reason
2. I Meant in general not specifically rifles, anyone who wants to own a gun should have to do a process akin to the Czech one after which they are done with they should be able to apply for a restricted weapons liscense
3. It very much is brandishing
If lets say your ex who you had a horrible relationship shorly after the breakup starts standing outside your house with a rifle it is brandishing
I'm from Brazil, we have gun control here. I wish it would be easy for law-abiding citizens to purchase guns to protect their houses and families. Illegal guns are everywhere, though. When you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns... and the government that might not be so friendly or democratic.
ent! só bandido tem arma nessa merda de pais
As we're seeing right now, in the current regime, how friendly they are.
I thought Bolsonaro moved you a long way towards US style gun laws?
I live in a functioning North European democracy where guns are strictly controlled (but there are A LOT of legal guns around here, especially in rural areas) and think US style gun regulation is laughable, but on the other hand, when illegal guns are so out of control as in the US or Brazil, you might as well arm the ordinary citizens too, just so theyre on an equal footing to the crooks.
@@andersbjrnsen7203 Bolsonaro did indeed made it easier for LAW ABIDING citizens to purchase gun, and still it didn't become as easy as in the US, one has to go through a full background check, take some psycological tests etc. Bolsonaro during his years in office had all the establishment, the judiciary, the media etc against him, not to mention pandemic hit. Once they got the corrupt communist thug out of prison and put him in the presidency and by stealing election from Bolsonaro, just like Maduro did now (our electronic voting machines leave no paper trail, and if anyone complains about it is thrown in jail) they got rid of all the good stuff Bolsonaro had implemented. Bolsonaro had decreased the state, abolished dozens of taxes, decresase all others, and still the public revenue went up, because more people were investing, opening business and started paying taxes. All that is gone now, and government spending is way above revenue not to mention we are a dictatorship now as anyone who is well informed is aware.
@@andersbjrnsen7203 He made it easier indeed, but not US Style easy. Murders went down over 25% and criminality in general went down over 30%. But all that was demolished once the commies took back power by 5t3aling elect10ns like Madur0 did.
Buying a gun in UK;
- I'd like to buy a gun please.
-5 Years in prison just for thinking about it.
🤣
"Damn, should've asked for a Sword instead."
That’s a damn shame, many parts of London you would definitely need one
Switzerland has the best gun laws in Europe and is arguably the safest country there
almost no Gun crime but a knife attack every 4 mins you cant ban evil people criminals have guns some of the police do
theres sone nice places for some nice things in england.
German here. With the german hunting license i can buy as many long guns as you want and also SBRs and suppressors. I also own several Pistols, 10" AR, AK and more nice stuff. I also lived in Alabama Mobile for 2,5 years and shot extensively, same thing as i do now. Psycho test also only required for sports shooters under 25 with large cal. semi autos.
Enjoying your 10rd mags?
How many deers did you shot?
@@WolfofnoStreetfor rifles for pistols the max is 20rd you can get a special license for large magazines
@@WolfofnoStreet SPEAK UP LIBRUL 7 SHOTS OF 45 BALL ALLYA NEED SONNY11!
vollautomatisch waffen sind doch ilegal?
Lol, this is a major mischaracterization of how buying a gun goes in the US. We do in fact have regulations and checks around guns. And while you can privately own things like machine guns, by federal law that requires special, difficult to obtain, and expensive licensing.
Your still missing health checkups which is arguably the most important
@@fuxkag3908 The problem with mental health checkups is they can result in you losing your right to bear arms on subjective grounds.
Mental health can disqualify you from firearm ownership actually. We just don't force evaluations on people beforehand unless they already have a history that suggests that may be an issue. Then it comes up in their regular background check if they have been disqualified on those grounds.
Also keep in mind, just as individuals nations within the European Union may set their own gun laws, the same is true of individual US states, and some do have much stricter gun regulations than others.
My original point with this statement was just that it does not work the way this video makes it appear like it does, it is satire not reality.
@@hogmeet3942 Not really its not simply the psychologists opinion, we have a proper process
I traded a gun for an old truck once. Most American thing I ever done. The truck is on cinder blocks still, waiting for a new engine. Also the most American thing I ever done.
As long as it was a Smith and Wesson and you got a Chevy I agree
😂😂😂 " buy one get one free" - DEAL 😂😂 YOU make my day ❣
haha it's a real thing in the US, they even give them away in tombolas
@@RadicalLiving 🤣 das ist noch besser 😉
Can confirm it is very common here lol. Some car dealerships will give you a free gun with a vehicle purchase 🫠
I once bought 3 Mosin Nagant rifles at a gun show in Pennsylvania. The guns were $65 each or all 3 for a total $150.
@@RadicalLiving it is! I've just got ads saying that a lot of gun manufacturers do promos, you just have to ask for them!
funnily enough with alcohol its the other way around xD
Well i can throw my bottle at u but when ur standing there with an uzi idk...
Bingo!
In almost all countries of the world its 16-18 to drink alcohol
The reason why usa has this 21 rule. Is that you guys are not disciplined. There was mass ammount of alcoholics in the streets of usa back in the 1800s and early 1900s that it was getting out of hand
Add second amendement into it. And its chaos
Imagine hundreds of drunk people with revolver in their hand 😂
The 21 rule is cultural reason
Even if today usa lowered it to 18. The number of crimes would triple. Cause too much18-20yo amerikans already cant behave sober or arent disciplined to act civilised. Cant imagine drunk 😆
And speed limits and fireworks...
And Kinder Eggs.
These rules seen in Germany apply to most countries in Europe. You can buy a gun if you really want it but it's a long process which involves education, tests and training and hardly anyone cares. Carrying a gun is the rare exception not the norm.
Czech ,Republic,Northern Ireland,Germany ,Switzerland are all concealed carry possible states.
And although not perfect, it works. Unless you attack a police officer, getting shot is a risk barely anyone has to think about.
@@haifutter4166 It is mostly like that in USA to be quite honest.
Gun carrying in EU depends heavily on the country, I know in France it's illegal unless you're in the military or law enforcement, and I mean when in duty
@@Fighter4Streetthere are weapons for military or police and others, limited for civilians.
In Spain, if you are a simple civilians, before, you get a gun you need to achieve the permission. Generally, are weapons for hunting of animals and rarely a pistol if you are special civilian in danger (this kind of gun is given by policemen). So there is a Big control in gun.
For the police, security agent or the military is completely different. By job you must achieve the gun permission and you have more access to the great majority of the weapons depending of course of your job.
I have a friend that is a security guard that has a pistol but only can use at the job, once he ended his job the gun is kept It in security place.
The paperwork for that minigun will take 8 months to a year. Stuff on the NFA is regulated almost as hard as your normal stuff.
Let’s get a few things straight here.
You cannot, just walk into a gun store in America, throw some cash on the counter and walk out with a mini gun or a rocket launcher…
Machines guns and explosives are highly regulated in the US and also extremely expensive.
It’s sort of like buying a jumbo jet. Sure, you can do it but most people simply can’t and even for the ones that can, it’s a process.
To further elaborate, mini guns I don’t think are available to civilians at all. The company that makes them really only sells them to the government because the government can actually afford them.
You might be able to buy certain, mostly old and outdated, launchers with enough money and assuming you can satisfy the necessary requirements to be able to be able to own something like that. The rockets on the other hand…well, at least the launcher will look really cool hanging on your wall.
you think anyone watching this propaganda is going to care about any of that if they don't already know that?
It is also way easier to buy guns in Europe than shown in this video. If living on the countryside you are usualy allready a member of of a shooting club, or have done your hunting courses in school or with older relatives. I joined my first shooting club at age 12. The remaining paper work is quite easy. The video is exegerated for fun.
not everything has to be so literal, you can call it creativity ✨
You can buy the launcher over the counter like any other firearm but the ammunition is a different story.
@@mynameis.9443There's a difference between being "creative" and being intentionally obtuse and flat out lying.
Funny, but not entirely accurate for buying a firearm in the US.
Yea in the us you need a basic background check for any purchase along with a federal license for any automatic weapond
@@Einkesselnwait so you're telling me I need a license for all the switches on my glocks
@@carlosnavarro-cj2jv do you live in California? Lmao
@@Einkesseln yeah why? Do they not like people owning switches?
@@carlosnavarro-cj2jv California may as well be Europe with how much gun control they have
In the UK gun laws were as strict as Germany. Then after the Dunblane incident in 1996 nobody was allowed to keep a gun at home except for farmers and even then it had to be kept locked up.
And that's the only reasonable way.
You can't have everyone have guns in a civil society. Yes, you're f'ed if you need to rise against your government. But in that case you'll have to make something up.
In peace times, everoyne owning guns just endangers everybody else.
Germany has ~7 school shootings in total, the US have ~7 per year.
Is that why knives are so popular?
@@somedudefromapharmacy Yes.
@@lemsip207 Wonderful. They might as well ban every single sharp object in the country.
Well that's unfortunate. I honestly cant imagine not owning a firearm... I'd feel like I was being treated like a teen who can't he trusted to stay out after dark lol.
The background of the gun store at 0:30 is my local gun store. Chandler Tactical Firearms in Chandler, AZ 😂. I recognize that store and bear anywhere!
omg this is so bad for you. No one need guns for self-defense
what @@zernicht9r286
@@zernicht9r286 In America American civilian ownership of arms is a safeguard against tyranny we have a 250 year track record of success without outside help, in Germany American soldiers stationed in your country are your safeguard against tyranny. If America hypothetically left Nato how could you be sure that Germany which is currently a strong democracy wouldn’t decline back into what it was pre 1945 over the course of a few decades? You really need to look at the bigger picture. If our troops pulled out of your country theres is no way to know if your government which doesn’t have significant separation of power wouldn’t devolve into tyranny again. Look at South American country’s they go through periods of military rule Venezuela was a strong democracy 25 years ago now it’s a 1 party state with rigged elections. They also have the highest murder rate in the world due to government sponsored anarchy to keep Maduro in power.
Want to defend yourself? Have you tried waiting an hour for cops to arrive instead? :D
i like how Americans are flabberghasted that in europe police arrives in like 2-3 minutes tops instead of having to drive from the next town over
The issue with that in the US is that some areas can get it that fast while others can take 30+ mins on a serious call. Hence why people arm themselves to deal with the situation if it is needed. Also in 2-3 minutes a lot can happen, which could be either stopped or deterred entirely with the presence of a firearm in the possession of the potential victim(s).
Let me tell you a little story about the last time I wore pants.
June of 2022, my wife was in the hospital giving birth to our second child. She says to me that I should call in a nurse, it's about time. I call up the nurse's station and tell them it's about time. A few minutes go by, no nurse shows up, and contractions aren't getting any farther apart. I call again. They tell me they'll be right there. About a minute later there's still no nurse, and my wife's water breaks. I'm about to call a third time when I look down and there's a head coming out of her.
Nurse shows up a minute later to find me covered in blood and amniotic fluid having caught the kid. I put on the pants in my overnight bag, wash my kilt the next day, and I haven't worn pants since.
The moral of that story is that just because the professionals are nearby, doesn't mean you can rely on them to handle your emergencies when you have a problem that needs to be handled right fucking now. If you have people you care about, you better be ready to get covered in blood for them at a moment's notice. Sometimes that means catching a baby. Sometimes that means someone is trying to hurt your babies. Prepare accordingly.
Meanwhile Europeans are flabbergasted that living in a country multiple times bigger and less densely populated than theirs might mean police response times vary depending on where you live.
Gee I wonder why someone might want to own a firearm for self defense?
I guess at least our police are allowed to have firearms and protect themselves from crazy knife welding drug addicts, so that's nice.
I think the more important question in all of this is: Which way of handling it has the higher probability of accidents and murder happening?
I think its quite clear that more people die by shooting weapons, if there are more spread through a population. The same population with only knifes, or far fever guns will have a lower rate of those incidents -> less people die or get injured.
I get your points, it's easier to threaten people with a gun, than without one. But even if the answers are correct, is the question the right one to ask? I think not.
That‘s another reason why I‘m glad I live in Austria. Two hours of basic instruction, a very simple online test, police background check, that‘s it. Takes about three to four weeks to get your first gun. Second and so on gun is easy, just go to the gun store and show your license.
Sad you can't use them to defend your family, though.
Also the main reason for civilians to own guns is as a check on the government.
People think that means actually starting something. In modern context it is just a deterrent.
Sure, you would lose if it came to that, but it's not a fight the government can win without losing all support & legitimacy. It acts as some kind of check on unlimited power.
If you can actually read my first comment.. to expand on that, the thing that would probably help the most would be massively reducing the number of elected officials and giving greater authority to those that exist, while reaffirming rights such as self defense.
In essence, a serf in medieval England with his lomgbow could bring a king to his knees successfully. Nobody has ever successfully rebelled against an entire parlaiment or congress.
Why do you'all want guns? Planning to start a revolution?
That's pretty much the same system we have in Canada: Pass an easy on line test, do an in person class, send in the application, the RCMP would conduct a background check and about 4 weeks later I had my license in hand.
@@ChrisRand-gf7lzthat’s what I did in California also. Two week back ground check after all the training and test. I did do more than two hours training though. It was about 20 hours.
Texan here of German heritage. I'll stay armed, thank you.
spoken like a true Texan. Be well-stay armed.
I live in NY, I went though a state back ground check, fingerprinted, three reference who the police called, and I had to speak with the police as well. And then before every purchase I still have to have a background check. And that part applies to EVERY legal purchase from a gun store in the ENTIRE united states.
When you don't actually know how buying a gun in the US is like😂
I traded a 6 pack of beer and a set of old golf clubs for a gun back in the day.
I bought a gun for 52 euros and it came with a free breakfast for two
@@greencreekranch you shot two people in the mouth!? You animal! 🫡
Maybe someine still has a Panther in their basement looking for a new home? 😮
Don't laugh, a few years ago one was found in a mans barn in Germany in perfect condition!
@@pfdrtom you forgot that this guy also had some u-boat torpedos in store :-D
basically uhh
Germany: you need a license yap yap yap yap you need a reason for getting one yap yap yap government check yap yap yap
USA: ye we'll just background check you real quick and you got gun
M134 mini is a nfa regulated weapon and all of those in private hands are tracked. Also, yes you have to do a background check. Also, Germany sells semi auto rifles and sbrs that you can’t buy in the USA. Also, you can buy aks in Germany. Walthers have a development center and production center in Germany.
Name some of these "Short Barreled Rifles" that cant be buy in the USA, that are readily available in Europe to the average purchaser.
@@jwhiskey242 16 variant rifles with gold stocks from the hk line from the mp5 to the mp7 to mp31-36 lines, 4 from the styler line and colt had four from its colt ar line. All 9-10.5 in. Making them sbrs. These variants were never offered to the USA market because to import would require modifications.
I actually know someone who has an M134. Ironically, he says he regrets it. Apparently the maintenance and ammo costs add up to more than the gun itself. The only reason he keeps it is cause he gets to say he legally owns a minigun, but he rarely ever shoots it.
The ATF is stupid, you can get a gun that can shoot more than 2000 rounds a minute but can't attach a vertical foregrip on your AR.
so? you can buy AKs here too
From the USA here. I’m a female and I carry for protection. Firearms are the ‘great equalizer’ against a stronger opponent. They are a potential lifesaver against a criminal. It’s either me or them….
@@cben4239 I agree 100%. I wish I could give you more up votes than I did...
I'm shocked. In Europe I don't have to carry a gun and I still feel safe. Come to Poland. Here you can walk at midnight in the park or on the subway and nothing will happen to You. And no one needs a gun.
I can’t understand why there are any women, elderly, or disabled people who are against the carrying of firearms in public by citizens. It seems rather obvious that if you’re old or a 120 pound woman you’re probably not fighting off anyone empty-handed, even if they “only” want to steal your wallet.
No need for that kind of "protection" here in Austria.
Or in Germany.
Or most countries in Europe.
USA and Americans seem to be extremely violent.
And I know, that at least 1 harmless man going to his car is shot by a fearfull woman. Every day!
So that is why we are against guns for everybody. Because many innocent people die.
Very true that’s why 2nd amendment is important and why I can never understand why liberal want to vote to take away those rights.
United states: *literally sells you an entire army division worth of guns*
Germany: *you are on step 999 of 737397*
And thats why Germans attacking with kives (almost 15.000 knife attacks last year). Or are these attackers really Germans? xD Its Illegal for Germans to protect them selfs against these "Germans" even with peper spray.
Prevents school shootings and gang wars
@@antoschka-5065literally doesn't affect those at all.
Armed intervention is the only way that stops a violent attack.
its german tradition that only the state has the authority of violence
@@antoschka-5065 sure how nice is kreuzberg or neu-köln?
As an American one of my favorite guns I own is an all matching Kar98k bcd model with SS stamps made in Berlin in 1943.
in turkey it is like "you can only buy a no license semi auto shotgun and slugs, pistols require 2 licenses, rifler require 3 lisenses"
meanwhile shotgun slug: I can kill a bison yknow...
l o g i c
That is kind of like in some states they want a 10 round magazine limit on a .22lr but also allow a Semi-Auto 12ga with a 10 round box mag of 000 buckshot.
@@utubenewb1265 I never knew about the 000 buckshot, thank you :)
What about the less lethal pistols for self defense? I live in Colombia and guns made in Turkey in 9mm P.A rubber "traumatic" pistols are very popular here.
No, it takes "Smoothbore Gun Licence" to buy a shotgun. Shotguns are widespread because the licence costs 35 times less than the pistol and grooved gun licence for possession. Carrying licence has strict conditions and costs even 4 fold of the possession(150 fold of the smoothbore) whereaes you can carry or transport your shotgun as long it is unloaded.
@@oguzhancan5477 Oh. I thought you only needed a license for open carrying and one for hunting if you wanna hunt. I thought possession of a shotgun didnt require a license.
“I wanna buy a gun because I’m just a really small girl and I don’t wanna have any trouble walking around at night in Berlin”
“Hahaaaa… no.”
What, and give yourself the ability to stop from being culturally enriched by muhammad and his cousins? Just remember; the good guys won 80 years ago and that's why you can't have a gun for self defense!
And still Germany is unsafe because none of this applies to actual criminals as they are per definition criminals and don't follow the law. Only applies to honest citizens.
america has 77x the gun homocide rate of Germany.
Comparable gun deaths per capita US vs Germany.
In 2021, the age-adjusted firearm homicide rate in Germany was 77 times lower than in the United States.
So, the US is truly exceptional.
@@johnwren3976 Yeaaah but statistics and collection can be weird, rather look at homicide rates. Where while the US is still ahead, it is about 6x instead of 77x.
Furthermore, I assume a lot of that is from gang violence, cartels and similarly related activities that do not affect the average person.
I mean the rest of the Americas is truly insane if you look at it.
So while firearm homicide is much higher, homicide is not that much higher. It should also be noted that in recent history Germany was much closer with the homicide rate, only 1/2 the current US rate.
And even though it is a controversial topic, the US has a problem with immigration from countries with truly staggering homicide rates.
@@johnwren3976 Yeah but Germany borders France while the USA borders Mexico, so...
@@johnwren3976 Uh-huh. Now tell us where a majority of those gun deaths in the US happen at. Give you a hint. Democrat controlled cities with strict gun laws.
In Poland you can get full collection license about 4 month or sport+collect about 5-6 months. It's easier and cheaper to get than driving licence 😊
Nice
But to carry still isnt allowed yet. In Czechia, Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia they are allowed to carry.
@@Gieszkanne its not true. In Poland you can cary CCW weapon to: selfdifence (hard to get for civilians), training, sport (easy to get), security. Cary weapon means in Poland loaded = bullet on chamber ready to use 😀
@@krzysiekgnat "Hard to get" so it is true. In Germany a carry permission also isnt impossible to get but for the most civilians it is.
@@Gieszkanne To self difence is hard to get but in Poland you can use any weapon to fight about your life 😊
*tips fedora* Uhhhm actually
1: It is possible to own and carry a gun for self defense in Germany as long as you can proof that you are under a substantially larger threat to your life than the average person. Otherwise Germany is a non issue country.
2: There are other reasons to get issued a firearms owning license. For Self defense, for Shooting your own life stock, for so called Waffensachverständige (experts and researchers), for weapons you inherited, for commercial reasons (usually people who operate gun ranges or teach courses) and for financial reasons (usually, when the government bans something you already own and they can not legally disown you they'll just issue you a license). Also many things that are not considered Weapons elsewhere but need the same permit such as Flares for Boating are pretty easy to get as well.
3: You do not need to show any criminal record there will be an extended background check done in the background by the local firearms bureau. And there is only one group of people that actually have to do the psychological exam: Sport shooters between 21 and 24, that want to get a gun with a caliber larger than .22. I got my hunting license when I was younger than 25 and my sporting license when I was over 25. Never had to see a psychologist.
4: The hours for the so called Waffensachkunde are totally made up. You can just take a weekend course, that doesn't even take half as long.
5: You can not and do not need to schedule an Inspection berforehand. You can just send pics of your safe or use the receipt of your safe as proof you can safely store your guns. Once you actually own guns the authorities can come and inspect whether you store your guns correctly at any time unannounced.
6: There is no minimum weight for gun safes. If your safe is over 200kg you may store 10 instead of 5 Handguns if you have a safe of the lowest safety category you need to store guns in DE. Other than that the weight is irrelevant. lighter safes are legal.
7: You can get your sporting license in a year. less than that is not possible but it wont take 1.5 to 2 years. Also a hunting license can be obtained in less than a year.
Tldr bureaucratic nightmare. The Germans then have a privilege, not a Right, which can be arbitrarily constrained or taken at any time. Hitler did that too and how did that turn out?
I’ve always wanted to move to Germany but also pursue a dream of gunsmithing or becoming a guntuber, so glad to know I could potentially get that in Germany
@@underballbutter Uhhm actually... Hitler actually kinda relaxed gun laws for ethnic germans
@@JonasGutenwald-yj8th Gunsmithing is a very traditional profession in Germany. You usually take a 3 year apprenticeship (can be shortened) and then maybe make your gunsmithing "Meister" (comparable to a bachelors degree). There is an entire extensive educational program to gunsmithing. legally speaking you'd just need a gunsmithing license (Waffenherstellungslizenz) for which you'd just take a course and pass a written and oral exam. The course is not even mandatory, but man it is also a lot of legal and obscure technical stuff so you better be prepared.
Being a guntuber while possible is kinda more difficult in germany. All the cool stuff that'd get you clicks is kinda difficult here. you can't have 10+ round longgun- or 20+ round handgun mags. Can't really do tactical shooting or use Man-targets (not even like Zombie silhouette). Also certain kinds of ammunitions or weapons are outright banned. This is all to say there are special permissions for all of that but it would probably be a bit overwhelming for a foreigner to obtain any of these. Also you should be rather profiecent in german if you actually consider a career in gunsmithing or something like that in germany. But hey anything is possible.
@@IchOdaNich Yeah, I am learning German but I see your point here. Thanks for the info.
The ending sent me XD, just 5 seconds after owning the gun, Negligent discharge AND cherry ontop, "WHAT'RE YOU LOOKIN AT" perfection. dare i even say, chef's kiss
American here. Everything mentioned is a big part of the reason I now live in Germany! I love that "Want some trouble?" at the end!
So you live in Germany so it is harder to get a gun?
May i ask, where do u feel more safe?
Move to Austria it's like Germany but with US style gun laws and less crime.
@@janhansen554
Litterly everyone feels more safe o
In germany
@@Mr.mustard.
Seems like what they said most likley cause they feel like not everyone should be able to get a gun no problemo even if they are mentally ill
Here's the thing, in USA, gun ownership is a right, not a privilege. Also, there are numerous Supreme Supreme Court rulings that more or less states that government law enforcement does not guarantee individual safety as a right. An example of this is Town of Castle Rock vs. Gonzalez. Or DeShanny vs. Winnabego County Social services. Individuals in the USA are responsible for their own personal safety. Americans have a different mindset and worldview than most Europeans. Americans Question and Challenge Authority. Europeans prefer authority and order, also are also more trusting with their perspective governments. Most Americans don't blindly trust the government are more foot loose and fancy free. Our mantra is that our freedom doesn't end where your fear begins. Freedom is scary, deal with it. To quote on of our founding fathers Ben Franklin, Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. With all this being said that demonstrates differences in mindset, the 2nd Amendment "Right to Keep and Bear Arms shall not be infringed" A Big However this is not absolute. Rights do have limitations especially 2a. You simply can't buy a mini gun or rocket launcher from a gun shop 😅🤣 that's a very restrictive item. You need a manufacturers permit which is a type of federal firearms license. The process to get one of those is way more extensive than purchasing a regular gun in Germany. It's way more expensive. The cost for a manufacturers FFL is 15k. The next level of NFA items are Class 3's. Class 3 NFA items" refers to firearms and devices regulated under the National Firearms Act (NFA) Title II, which primarily include: machine guns (select-fire), short-barreled rifles (SBRs), short-barreled shotguns (SBS), suppressors (silencers), and "Any Other Weapons" (AOWs); essentially, firearms considered particularly dangerous due to their potential for rapid fire or high destructive capacity. It's not a simple and straightforward process to obtain a class three items. For Starters, extensive and multiple background checks with character references, you have to be fingerprinted through local law enforcement. It takes 6 months to a year to get approved. You also have to pay a $200 tax stamp. That's for restricted items. Also, for machine guns, you can't own one made after 1986. You do have to be a law-abiding citizen or permanent resident to purchase and possess a gun in the USA. To purchase a regular firearm including scary semiautomatic renditions of military firearms. Aka "assault weapons" according to the media. You have to have a clean criminal record, no felonies, and have two forms of ID with you. You submit to a background check through our NICS instant background check system. You fill out Form 4473. Things like being convicted of a felony, drug abuse or use, being on a red flag list, being convicted of a domestic and or violent assault resulting in a misdemeanor and have a restraining order against you. also being institutionalized for being mentally unstable. All these things will bar you from legally owning a firearm. That's the federal minimum. Some states have more restrictive firearms laws. This includes bans and restrictions on cosmetics and ammunition feeding devices. Meaning limits on stock design and magazine capacity. Additional background checks, along with waiting periods, are not uncommon. I hope this clarifies the stereotype that in the USA, Americans are not trigger-happy, blood thirsty Savages. We do have gun laws. We are civilized. Self-defense is legal. However, in a self-defense shooting, most jurisdictions district attorneys will prosecute you for 2nd degree murder the burden of proof that it was self-defense is up to you. You will have to prove it in court. We do have strict laws regarding self-defense. Using a gun in self-defense is the very last thing any human being wants to do. There are a lot of moral and psychological problems associated with it. Carrying and self-defense is a huge moral responsibility. European governments typically don't allow their citizens to have that responsibility. Gun ownership in the US is not only a right but an obligation and responsibility.
Another day, another Radical Living banger, keep it up my man!
Thanks! Will do!
As a German gun enthusiast, I can confirm, that our gun laws are a pain in the ass...
what kind of firearms are you allowed to have?
@@kilovolt2494 Pretty much all of them, depending on license.
@@kilovolt2494 Anything that is not automatic rifles or submachine guns. Self-loading shotguns or hunting rifles are limited to three rounds. And any hunter will say that this is ok as you fire ONE precise shot at your deer or boar and that is it.
@@christiankastorf4836Die Dreischussregel gilt nur für die aktive Jagdausübung. Als Jäger darf man auf dem Schießstand genauso wie jeder andere Schütze ein 10-Schussmagazin benutzen.
If getting a gun is a pain in the ass, buy a different holster .....
Cool! Can you do Germany vs Switzerland? Or maybe Austria vs Switzerland for variety.
Switzerland will be : Sure fill this form, its 50 francs and your are good to go.
@@huexley That’s not entirely true-it depends on the regulations. I have an AB-K license, and I had to undergo a two-hour interview with the police. Additionally, I was required to provide a security plan for the room where the firearms are stored. If they choose to, they can even schedule an appointment to inspect the room themselves.
It’s not overly complicated in Switzerland, but it’s certainly not as simple as some might claim.
@@dariopitocchi3398 Probably depends on the Canton, in Neuchatel its really as simple as that. Also the police officer I spoke with was a super cool guy !
German Sport Shooter here.
There is no mandatory psychology test unless you are unter 25 and want a "big caliber gun".
And no test for hunters at all.
There are no mandatory hours. It is just a year of membership in a shooting federation and 12 regularly or 18 inregularly trainings within this year.
There is no additional insurance except for hunters, that is all covered in the federation membership
Define big caliber?
@Predator42ID Center Fire, basically
@@SpaetzleOperator So you're saying you can't shoot anything bigger than a .22?
@Predator42ID you can't OWN anything bigger as an Sport Shooter without a medical approval If you are under 25.
Over 25 or as an Hunter, no medical Tests for Center Fire.
@@SpaetzleOperator How big of a centerfire cartridge are you allowed. In the US you can go as high as .50bmg.
Actually, in order to "buy" that minigun you'd have to acquire an FFL/SOT license or pick one up that was legally owned by someone prior to 1986, making it transferrable.
Meanwhile Switzerland, Austria, Check Republik and Poland out here with some of the most relaxed gun laws in Europe and still less gun crime than Germany... 😂 LOL 😂
and the German government hates it. They all always complaining that there citizens can move in Austria and buy a gun and ammo without a licence in just three days.
Not true:
Gun violence related deaths per 100k (2019 data):
Austria: 0.15
Czech Rep.: 0.16
Germany: 0.1
Poland: 0.09
Switzerland: 0.21
So, joke's on you I guess?
@@totalermist Those figures are made up of majority self inflected wounds. The general rates of that is about the same in central Europe.
@@davedavids57 nope - I double-checked. that's a separate statistic, where Switzerland actually ranks highest among these countries:
Suicide rate per 100k (using guns):
Austria: 1
Czech Rep.: 1
Germany:
@@totalermist I think what's causing confusion is the statistics are pretty misleading because the numbers of gun homicides are so low they statically bounce around year on year. They are really really dependent on the year and single events, like mass shootings especially in Germany. For Example if you look at total gun homicides in Austria, they range from a high of 20 in 2009 to as low as 5 in 2012 with the latest figures I could find of 13 2022.
It's even starker in Czechia where the numbers range from 0 in 2018 (that's no record whatsoever) to 10 in 2022 with an average around 4-10 per year. In Switzerland they do the same from a high of 24 in 2009 to a low of 7 in 2014 and the latest available figures I could find of 9 in 2020.
Germany being a much bigger country tends to have rates that fluctuate a lot less with a high of around 75 in 2009 and an average of about 50 per year but even this is effected by large last shootings.
You can actually get guns for self-defense in Germany. You just need to show sufficient proof that you are under genuine threat that's not just gonna go away after a few days of police protection. State persecutors and such can, under certain circumstances, apply for a gun for self-defense. In essence, those licenses are unicorns.
You have to be a friend of the police in or if that happened. It's the same way in California, where if you want to get a carry permit, you need to justify why. There was a woman that I knew that had a stalker who was recorded breaking his restraining order and had an active arrest warrant and they still denied her.
@@wiseguy3696 It's not a matter of being a friend of the police, it's a matter of legalities here. In the case you named, you'd still be denied a carry permit here as well, because that's an individual the police can track and deal with. If you've got a whole plethora of convicted felons after you though...
@@Rabascan well yeah, the point of gun control is to keep the poor unarmed. Who is more likely to be convicted of a crime, a poor person or a wealthy one? You cannot buy or possess a firearm in the US if you have a felony. In much of Europe, you cannot get one with even a misdemeanor.
@@wiseguy3696 The point of gun control is to restrict the amount of weapons out there. In Europe, that works.
@@Rabascan it's not about how many or what type, it's about who has access to them. There are collectors both in the US and Europe that have thousands of firearms in their collection, but they are rarely, if at all, dangerous individuals. By limiting WHO has access to firearms, that is how low gun crime is achieved. The deliberate targeting of groups likely to commit such crimes is imperative. The largest and most easily identifiable groups are the poor. There's peer-reviewed research on this by Boston University.
I am not worried about any gun control affecting me in the US because I am wealthy enough, white, and I'm a government employee. I will always have access to firearms, even if the 2nd amendment goes away. I have enough friends in the police department so I have a written exception by a judge to allow me to own assault rifles in California.
If there is a drastic increase in gun control in the US, I am not going to be the target. Just like in 1994, the target is going to be minorities. There's a reason the black prison population increased 400% from 1994 to 2004 while the assault weapons ban was in place, and why the band was specifically written to Target weapon designs and attachments that were favored by minority communities.
So Germany is basically Massachusetts
Has Germany ever had a dictatorial leader who benefited from an unarmed population???
Yes, the GDR, the 3rd Reich, had more relaxed gun laws than todays Germany, for Aryans that is.
@@Theo-c9x6h MUAHAHA
@@Theo-c9x6h prohibiting certain races/groups from owning guns is still a form of gun control. Venezuela has strict gun control but pro maduro militia members are permitted to and encouraged to stockpiles small arms.
@morganhillfightclub2996 Still, the total population was more armed than today. So, no, the 3rd Reich did not benefit from an unarmed population it benefited from an unarmed minority.
GREAT POINT.
You are too funny to be a German
Yea you're right. Hey Radical what's the big idea?? You know damn well that German funny is strictly verbotten! It's a law of nature. If Germans start telling funny jokes then the whole fuckin' universe will implode
You don't know how many satirists we have in Germany, lots of them!
But they're not as dull as J. Kimmel, more like the British John Oliver.
Far too high for most Americans.
@@arnodobler1096 Too boring to all Americans*
Calm down. You’re not the funniest country on the planet.
@@arnodobler1096yeah and German humour is very referential so you simply don't get it if you don't get the culture.
It's basically like a large inside joke.
@@zekiz774 exactly
1,5 years? It took like 3 months for me, but in Russia. 1-day training, obtaining hunting license, medical checks, police "Waffenschrank" check, and police background check.
I'm in the USA, I still had to do all of the Germany requirements 😞
sorry , you should leave California asap
Actually, Massachusetts may be harder than Germany at the moment.
"I don't believe in the public owning guns, only the police and military, and I'm gonna do whatever I can to disarm this state."
- M Dukakis, five-foot-nothing girly man
I live in California....sooooo lol
@@fryingpanhead8809 Michael Dukakis?! He's almost 91 years old and said that back in 1988! More than half of the US population wasn't even born yet in 1988. I'm not sure I'd focus on quoting people born before World War 2 in nursing homes for current Massachusetts policy stances.
@@afellowinnewengland6142 That fucker’s still
Alive?!?
haha, amazing bro funny as always!
our gun laws here in the US are both a blessing and a curse we do need something to help filter out crazy but i have to say my grandfather used to talk about bringing a shotgun to school for show and tell and everyone was fine with it lol clearly something broke between then and now.
The purpose of gun control is to keep guns out of the hands of poor people. After all, the people most likely to commit gun violence are low income individuals living in high income areas, or in other words, poor people living in cities. That's why requiring things like mental health checks and licenses are popular among the gun control debate because they drastically increase the cost of obtaining a firearm, and are harder for low income people to achieve
@@wiseguy3696 I suppose that's the problem with rights. They apply to poor people as well. Also, we may need to go check. But I'm pretty sure these school shooters aren't poor. I know the kids from Columbine weren't.
@@joncarbone considering you would have to reach all the way back to Columbine to find an example of a non-poor mass shooter, is a pretty good record. Especially since Columbine happened during the 94 assault weapons ban.
The video didn't represent gun laws in US at all, it's very strict in comparison 👍
@@wiseguy3696 Are you saying that America has lots of freedoms and second amendments, but only if you are not poor? LOL, what a nice country.
The German suggesting a mental health test is smart
far too subjective the way they do it . 1 crusader can stop thousands from having self protection.
Can you imagine if “you have to have a legitimate government approved reason for owning one” was applied to anything else on the market. Cars, axes, wrenches, lawn mowers, knives, TVs, furniture, archery, hammers, shovels, tents, video games, etc?
Car Salesman: “Why do you want to buy a car?”
Buyer: “to drive?!”
Car Salesman: “Nein, that’s not a legitimate reason. I cannot sell you a car.”
The concept of a legal precedent eludes most people in favor of gun control.
That's what New York tried to do, and why we have the Bruen SCOTUS decision.
Well surely anything can become a weapon if used in the right way but i think you would agree its more difficult to kill someone with tv or lawn mower than with automatic rifle. Thus there should be stricter regulations on such things...
It is... to health care.
@@bluntcabbage6042 precedent is not legal but the courts gain too much power from it. they dont want to loose that power.
Here in Brazil is The same That Germany or worse. The gov wants to disarm all Good mans. Meanwhile, The criminals bring heavy auto Guns from orient countries. Someone in The Sky help us, please!!!!
Fact is in germany every german citizen can have a gun by the age of 18 without a license if it's a full functional replica of a black powder pistol or rifle that was produced before 1st January of 1871, sure it produces a lot of smoke it's big and clumsy and you have to reload it after each shot and reloading takes forever but it's as deadly as a modern weapon
Wouldn't call them "as deadly as" a modern semiautomatic.
You can certainly end more targets with a modern semi than an antique black powder gun.
Both can be deadly.
But one is deadlier.
@@JanFWeh i still think you would prefer a hit by a modern rifle ;-)
@@weisthor0815 What's your reasoning?
@@JanFWehMost of the old black powder muzzleloading pieces are larger caliber than modern smokeless powder firearms. Who wants to get shot with a .50 cal? I'd imagine the cast lead bullets would also have a tendency to leave a messier wound channel than modern FMJ rounds, acting closer to a hollow point though not as extreme as a modern self defense hydra-shok self defense round.
@@TheAwast2 Is 1871 chosen to put the date somewhere before the introduction of the Maxim and the Gatling gun? Those would both be cool to own.
Bro you failed step 1: buy it in Switzerland
So I see Germany has adopted New York and California’s gun laws 😂
We can have normal pistols with up to 20-round magazines. That's better than California!
And once you have a gun permit, you can actually mail-order guns *and* ammo online and get it delivered to your doorstep!
@@Salvaba we dont like school shootings in germany
This is probably the most realistic satirization of US gun laws I've ever seen a European make. I don't mean that in a depreciative manner, either.
I sell firearms in North Carolina under an FFL. I am reasonably knowledgeable about gun laws and the way they're enforced here. Some things you got right are the tendency for people to try to pick something excessive. In the US, it's only in the past 25 or so years that 9mm has gotten the respect it really deserves on the civilian market, and only in the past 5 or so years that .380 has as well. In Germany, a Walther PP in .32 ACP may be seen as a decent, if antequated option for a defensive handgun, in the US, it's considered a mouse gun, and way too many people would never want to be seen shooting a "girl's gun."
The store I work at actually had a Black Friday deal when I started, buy a Taurus G2C, get a free Heritage Rough Rider.
There is a tendency to say the US doesn't check the people buying guns, and that is true in most states, but only for private party transfers, which see as much oversight as selling old electronics do in most places, and even then, some states require all transfers to go through a licensed dealer, and some even still require registration.
It is worth noting that registration doesn't actually stop crimes, and criminals are legally exempt from any firearm registration scheme due to the Supreme Court case Haynes v. United States, which found that, since the 5th Amendment protects people against compulsory self-incrimination, requiring a prohibited person to register is a violation of the 5th Amendment.
See, we know about more than just the 2nd Amendment.
Another thing that is legal under federal law is the gifting of firearms. In fact, the form that is required for transfer, called ATF Form 4473, Firearms Transaction Record, is just that, a record of a firearm transaction. The form is subject to change, but as of the time I write this, question 21a asks "Are you the actual transferee/buyer of all the firearms listed on this form..."
Basically, even if the intended owner of the firearm is not the person paying for it, even if the intended owner of the firearm is standing in the store, the form has to be filled out by the person actually paying for the firearm. We are frequently instructed to deny sales if the person pays on a card not in their name, or if someone else tries to pay for the firearm.
Anyway, I found the video entertaining.
Germany has one of the worst gun laws in Europe.
…… and Asia
@@CesarGarcia-nd5xz IMHO UK is worse, but Germany is pretty close. Asia is too inhomogeneous.
Why?
@@Iringard Because there is usually no right to own one for self defense.
@@kwinzman @kwinzman In my opinion using a gun is never self defense. Self defense is about stopping an attack and for this purpose you can use less harmful tools like bags, umbrellas, chairs or simply run away.
dude went gangster in the end 3:45
German buyer is Vladimir Lenin hahaha
OMG! I was like: since when Lenin is trying to buy a gun in Germany? lol
0:30 I know this is a joke, but you need like a whole lot of paperwork in America for most different types of guns there’s only like I think a few different types of guns where you don’t really need that much paperwork for it I would say
Well for any full auto weapons you have to pay a 250 dollar tax stamp via the nfa all semi auto rifles you can get same day with a background check also it varies state to state but for handguns there is a 3 to 7 day wait unless you have a concealed weapon permit and last but not least excuse my punctuation I'm just a dumb American
Not really. In free American states (everywhere but the northeast, Illinois and the west coast) among the United States, you walk in, find the gun you want, fill out a form that takes less than five minutes, they run a quick criminsl background check over the phone or on computer with ATF which takes 2 minutes. You pay money and walk out with your gun. That’s it. And in many states now, you don’t need permission to concealed or open carry that gun from the moment you leave the store.
@@classicgunstoday1972 I live in the south east and have been all over the US would you mind being more specific in regards to what states
That's not true. You can buy most everything with minimal paperwork, less than a phone purchase. If you want a suppressor or fully automatic weapon then you have to fill out another form and pay a $250 tax.
@@brianfarley4814 but the full auto weapon will likely cost as much as your car as new ones cannot be manufactured or imported
That's why i like US constitution. It is so much better than Germany.
Not really
@@anonek6640😂 you will have to be more specific about why otherwise I will say US is better.
That's why schools in europe are educational institutions and in murica they are shooting ranges
@@arianitonline8748 there are many soft targets. It isn't bad, I never ran into the problem and neither did my boys. 40 years without incident.
@@lordvader3425 It actually protects some rights better than the US Constutution. For example, we have stronger privacy laws and rights. Things like the NSA spying scandal would have been much harder to pull of here. Many practices US agencies use to surveil the US Citizens are illegal here.
It isn’t that simple to get a fully automatic firearm in the US…
You have to get approved by the ATF and pay them a bunch of money…
As an American, I always hear about how we have such high gun violence.
Yet, this is really only in very urban parts of some major cities.
Remove our top 6 or 7 murder cities from that statistic and we actually have fewer murders than even many European countries.
But, even then, our homicide statistics are often misleading.
What I'd really like is to know how many crimes were stopped by good people with guns.
These generally aren't reported because no crime even occurred.
We have little kids that have stopped home invasions with their parents' guns. Women need not fear going out in public by themselves because guns give them the ability to defend themselves from any criminal seeking to harm them.
I'd never live in a country like Germany. Yes, there, less guns means less gun violence. But, you still have bad people everywhere.
I'm not worried about the criminals. I'm worried about being able to protect myself from them.
No country has zero crime.
Those cities tend to be run by people who are for gun control and bailing out the criminals. It’s the fault of those politicians, not guns.
@eaglestryker1338 This is true, though not absolute.
Also, states like Texas would be up there, except for cities like Houston and San Antonio.
Houston is one of the most violent cities, largely due to gang violence.
And, San Antonio, is starting to be compared to Chicago.
But, it still depends on what part of the city. I live near San Antonio. Some parts are extremely safe while others are extremely unsafe.
Remove the dark sections and our violent gun crime drops below European countries.
One of the tricky part about gun related homicide rates is they include self-inflicted among them. Which is about a third of the total.
As far as the urban issues, that could be cleaned up if those cities' governments actually applied real methods. Instead they use methods that chip away at the problem indefinitely. They do this so the agencies and people running them don't suffer from their own successes.
Are you freakin' serious?? When I left DFW in the 1990s there were an average of 400 - 500 homicides per year in each Fort Worth AND Dallas!! Not to mention the so-called "mid-cities".
Here in Germany we get about about 1 - 2 gun deaths per city per decade!
In Germany no one has ever threatened my life in the last thirty years. In DFW back then I was running for my life a couple of times a month.
No thanks! I'm staying here in the civilized world in Germany!! It's a paradise here!
I am a german who lives in austria and i laugh at germany. We can do home defense.
You are technically allowed by German law to defend yourself with your guns in your own home. You're even allowed to carry in your own home or your own place of business. Self-defense is just not a valid reason to *get* a gun permit.
And, they will probably lock you up these days if you use a gun to defend your home. They'll definitely find a reason why you could have, should have retreated or used a less lethal way of defending yourself.
@@highks496 wrong, you are not allowed to protect yourself in Germany with ANY weapon. Not a Knife and not a gun. Forget it. if you do, you will go to jail. Dont forget that since Merkel ruined Germany, we must accept the Muslim violence. So..
this is a misrepresentation or an exxageration of american laws. you still have to go through a background check for every gun you buy, and no you currently cant buy functioning rocket launchers here. btw, if germany looked at its own somewhat recent history the people would realize that gun control against a certain population by a certain regime in the 30s and 40s helped with thee murder of millions in that particular population. that alone is a great reason to not be in favor of civilian gun control
Actually, gun ownership is not really that heavily restricted in Germany. There is a lot of bureaucratic red tape, but at the end of the day, it's not really uncommon to have 10, 20 or 30 guns. The major difference is not the right to own but the right to carry. The latter is extremely restricted in, I would say, most developed countries globally, with a few exceptions in Europe like Czechia.
As an Aussie I can say half the point of the bureaucracy is besides weeding out the crazies is the amount of paperwork alone deters ne'er-do-wells at the gate
It doesn't. They just get em illegally.
@@makvande576 its not that easy to get a gun illegally, at least not really quickly. so it def does deter people, especially those who want to do something in a spur of the moment thing.
then there is the risk involved in buying illegally, as a lot of those (at least in germany) have been infiltrated by the police so suddenly after you buy your gun, police might "get a tip from a concerned citizen" (aka, their own secret department) about you owning an illegal gun and they will take it away and throw you in prison.
the crime statistics of basically every country are online. just look them up. doing it this way is obviously better. the numbers are extremely clear
no its to keep as many citizens unarmed as they can while claiming to be "free" unarmed civilians are far easier to control.
Jake is awesome!
Thank you so much! So are you!
@@jakewiest6265 Hey Jake! Wth are you doing on yt? Greetings from Freiburg man!!
The Austrian and Swiss Laws make the most sense. Compared to the US and Germany.
Arent pump shotguns banned there?
@@MrEvilTag In Austria they are if i remember correctly, but this doesnt need to be carried over, its also not allowed to transport loaded detachable magazines there, wich is not regulated in germany, if memory serves me well.
@@AR-GuidesAndMore which is odd because its very popular for hunting
@@MrEvilTag I think in Germany they arent as prevelant although legal. Side by sides are more widespread also because of Ammo limitations when hunting. For sportshooting they are treated like Semi-Auto Rifles Pistols and Revolvers.
@@MrEvilTag Only if you're poor
The USA one is pretty accurate actually except for the mini gun obviously. Automatic guns are extremely hard to find
if ur poor than yes :D ...
The USA one is very INACCURATE! You've obviously never actually bought a gun from a gun store. I can quite assure you that you will NEVER see a BOGO sale on guns, and a dufus like the clown behind the counter would be fired for incompetence on his first day.
@@tadej3954 *not rich* is what you mean. I have a decent job and am not poor but I have no interest in buying a 40 year old uzi thats the price of a brand new car due to a BS law plus if they ever opened up the NFA registry that $40,000 Uzi would suddenly be worth $1000 and I would be down $39,000 theoretically Trump could appoint a gun rights advocate to ATF director and create “Amnesty periods” to register new machine guns and he could do that without even passing a law.
As an American, I don’t mine countries with stricter gun laws, it’s just the crazy stuff like self defense not being considered a valid reason to own a gun that drives me up the wall.
This video appears to be made by someone who had no idea about buying a gun in the States, you first have to be 18 for long guns or 21 for hand guns/pistols, then you have to fill out a 4473 form (background check) that checks it against the NICS system (FBI and ATF) then if you get a "proceed/go ahead" from the check you can then purchase the firearm and the serial is recorded on the paperwork to track the sale, those forks are also required to be kept and maintained by the seller for several years. It isn't like buying a candy bar from the gas station.
I am interested in collecting guns a lot in the future
We need more gun owners in Europe
Move to the Czech republic.
Only honest people follow the rules. Dangerous people already have guns or obtain them illegally. But we still need regulations for weapons. Some people should never have one.
Everyone knows at least one person, that friend, workmate or a family member, that should never be allowed to hold a weapon in their life. With all european rules I still know such a person that does in fact own guns XD
I agree some people shouldn’t have guns but honestly, it’s pretty naive to believe it is possible to prevent crazies, terrorists and criminals from obtaining a firearm. They will always manage to get one regardless of gun laws in place.
@@Silent_Ears
Depends the Country.
Australia has a lot easier time then America, for obvious reasons.
This just means America has a long way to go before it can be trusted with Firearms.
In the Czech Republic you can carry a gun for self-defense and the psychological examination and a clear criminal record are also necessary. Just not taking so long.
you have to have a criminal record to carry in Czech??
ok sorry i misread
Reminds me of the scene from the first terminator where Arnold walks into the gun store looking like the biggest and most dangerous psycho in the world, and the gun store owner is just so eager to sell him everything he needs to carry out his mission. (Destorying the whole police department)
yes , we Germans feel defenceless against criminals 🥲
When was the last school shooting in Germany?
@@mihanich Massmurder or single people shot ?attempted Massmurder years ago but we have big problems with organized criminals like arabic clans
What about your governments (politicians in general)? 😁
@@mihanich
When was the last time people in Germany spoke their minds openly? 😁 (I don't really know. I am just estimating from my perspective of my own country, Greece)
@@tomorrowneverdies567 its crazy , only 5 people shot by Police in Selfdefense last year but Lefitst and Immigrants still go crazy about that.
Texan here: people own and carry guns every day as they would carry a cell phone, wallet and car keys. Its never been a problem. It solves problems, in fact. It is the right of self defense by the people of the states. It is also a check on absolute power. The United States are a Union of British colonists…we learned from our ancestors what tyrants and kings of Europe can do with absolute power. That’s why the people being armed, in some instances required as a duty, is such a sacred right that is protected and a culture that most of us value.
Thank you for the background information. I'm just wondering: As the murder rate per capita is about ten times higher in the USA compared to Germany, what problems do guns solve in everyday life?
@@MaxMustermann-vu8ir a couple of things about those figures: first, the United States are not a single nation. It is about 6 different cultural regions, 50 sovereign states and numerous cities and small towns with varying problems, prosperity, interests and crime.
In real America, the places I’m talking about that value the right to keep and bear arms, are places where crime is very low and people are armed. Guns are also legal and easy to buy. Nobody is frightened at the site of a gun just being on a person or them practicing with one on their property or on a public range. These are places where chiefly honest citizens work and live.
The places where crime rate are highest are places where the right to keep and bear arms are not valued. It is either illegal or seen as equal to being a criminal. In short, it’s in high crime places where only criminals have guns. Many people in these areas are conditioned to be victims and equate a gun to having illegal drugs, stolen property or having warrants by the police. (Probably about 2% of the entire USA landscape making up cities like New York, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New Orleans, etc.) These are areas in extreme poverty and crime. And the bad guys they don’t walk into a gun store and buy a gun, they get them on the black market.
It is often said that the United States has the most “gun violence” in the world. This is very misleading as it includes things like suicides, accidents, etc and ignores violent crime and problems in other countries around the world. The USA is not even in the top 10 for gun deaths.
As for solving problems: somebody assaults or tried to rob you, you are able to defend yourself and your family. A riot breaks out in your city, you can defend yourself and your home or place of business. It can even be a fun social gathering among friends meeting at the range, teaching people who have never fired a gun before, putting them at ease and enjoying the company. On a larger scale, it is a check on absolute power to have am armed law abiding population of citizens. The government will be a lot more careful and limited on what they can do to the population if said population is armed.
Get this: most local police, sheriffs and law enforcement are in favor of this and are often found participating in above social gatherings.
You have 7700% the German gun homocide rate
@@Super-BallSharpnot in Texas.
It’s honestly disgusting to me that governments tell their people that they don’t have a right to self defense
Obviously someone does not know the difference between a privelege and a RIGHT! USA USA USA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
... orrrrrr, if you live in Berlin, talk to some of these teenagers shooting guns to celebrate new years eve, I'm pretty sure they went through all the legal procedure 🤣🤣🤣
these are mostly blank guns, pretty easy to get^^
As he said they are pretty much all Legal Blank guns that would destroy themselfes if they would shoot a real bullet. You can buy them and have them at home if you are above 18years and if you want to carry them outside you need to get a „Little weapon licence“ witha small background chec. But most of them carry them illegally because it’s not allowed to shoot them outdoors at new years
You can see it again straight away. People don't even manage to follow the laws when it comes to blank pistols. What would happen if they could buy real weapons relatively easily?
@@SheratanLPyou are under a mistaken impression that Berlin is populated by people
@@SheratanLP when you commit a crime like drug dealing and have an (il) legal gun on you your sentence will rise to the maximum sentence. The problem is that a blank gun counts in there too.
Im glad to be in the US where i am a citizen and not a subject.
Our gun laws aren't in place because some tyrants imposed them on us, but because WE, THE PEOPLE want them to be that way. If you can read statistics you should be able to understand how insane your laws are. On the other hand you aren't allowed to have a beer on a public park bench. When it comes to freedom you guys really have the wrong priorities.
@@Silent_Ears ah yes the land of the free ... where you can be arrested for drinking alcohol in public. Land of the free ... where a woman can be arrested for seeking medical aid outside the state. The land of the free ... with the highest amount of people behind bars per capita in the world.
ROFLMAO
oh, and the only 1st world country with active shooter drills in schools and the only country where child deaths caused by guns is the highest.
Amen. My ancestors didn't fight in the Revolution to beg permission from a government to be able to protect themselves.
LOL, you are soooo naive...
@@andrzej2501 hows that ?
I wish it was that simple to buy a automatic firearm in America esp a m113 💀
That is my dream car right there.
Mandatory gun safety courses would be a good idea here in the US. Especially for first-time gun buyers.
As long as we apply that to every other Right
to be fair, that would be a good idea
@jamesholden6142 so yes or no. Wouldn't it be a good ideal for gun owners, especially first-time owners, to know how to handle a firearm safely? I've worked in a gun store. It's concerning how many people seem to get their firearms "knowledge" from TV, movies, and video games.
😂 how about, no.
@jinksomiabodyart3189 how about why? You don't think people learning the safe handling of firearms is a good ideal? I've worked in a gunstore. It's interesting seeing how many people get their firearms "knowledge" from TV, movies, and video games.
I’m so glad that I live in the US and not Europe
I'm so glad that I live in Europe and not in the US
@@kopiovastaava4648 ok bud
It actually just takes 3 business days and bs paperwork.
Last gun I bought, I was actually forced to wait 42 minutes to take possession! NICS was down or something.
For the United States:
- Mostly, you have to purchase any firearm from a licensed FFL. If you yet caught trying to do a straw purchase, you get hit with a felony (and now you're prohibited from owning firearms).
- NICS/FBI background check, unless in some states you already have a weapons carry permit. You still have to fill out a 4473 but you might not have to do the background check. If you've done drugs, assaulted someone, were committed to a mental institute, etc..., you'll be denied.
- After the background check, you can get approved in a few seconds, days, weeks, or sometimes longer. Once approved, the transfer of the firearm can go forward. However, if denied, you're out of luck.
- NFA items (SBR's suppressors, etc...) require a $200 tax stamp and some other annoying hassles.
Not being allowed a gun for self defense is just nuts
Strangely enough all the smaller countries around Germany allow guns for self defence :p
I am german, and i think, that people should need a permit to buy a bottle of fertilizer. No joke.
Why, is it because of what happened in Oklahoma back in 1995?
I think that in a country which has experienced both the Holocaust and nearly five decades of Soviet rule over the last century, respecting your government when they tell you you have no right to self defense is... An interesting position.
And where do you draw the line without bringing industrialized society to a crashing halt? Arson is a spectacular and extremely effective method of mass murder and fertilizer is hardly the only base for explosives, should we be doing background checks every time you fill up your gas tank? Every time you buy a bottle of bleach, or stump remover, or drain cleaner, or hydrogen peroxide, or nail polish remover, or Sterno, or fine steel wool, the list goes on?
The silly thing is rent an apartment in Austria and within three days you can buy all the guns and ammo you want (as long as it's not semi automatic and under 60cm). This annoys the German government very much.
@@jonathanstiles6072 Five decades of soviet rule over Germany?
You almost do. Look into it, many are quite a pain to get.
This is pure awesome. And so true.