Hello from Luxembourg

The cost of admission is an explaination of your countries gun laws.

What's legal. What isn't. Where you can shoot. etc.

Welcome on board.
 
Quick heads up about our local gun laws, which by the way are quite liberal for European standards but you never know how long it's gonna last.

You have several possibilities to legal gun ownership:

The first one is a to have a Hunting gun licence, you have to follow classes and training for two years about hunting stuff and then pass written, practical and shooting exams. Then you can get a hunting license which makes it possible to apply for a hunting gun license, you can buy as many guns as you want but no automatic or semiautomatic rifles and no handguns.

Second possibility is you join a shooting club, then you get a first gun permit for small bore, during two years time you have to do active shooting with .22 at the shooting range of your gun club. Afterwards you can buy all caliber and all sorts of guns with the exception of full auto stuff. (I have a SIG 551 on my licence as well as an UZI and a Colt AR 15 I rebuild to M4 standard ....etc. But they are all semi auto only)

If you want to own full auto guns you can get a permit to buy them but you will not be allowed to shoot them, you're only allowed to own them and keep them at home. But again no restrictions regarding caliber, number of guns you own etc. So on my collectioners permit I have a G3, an UZI, a Sterling, a Beretta M12 an MP 5 from MKE,....etc.... but I'm not allowed to shoot them on the range. In order to get a collectors permit you need to have had a sporters permit for a few years.

When you apply for the first time it goes without saying that you need a clean slate with the justice, the more you need the approval of your local mayor and the police will do an enquiry about you.

You are never allowed to carry your guns during daily life, only on the way and back from hunting or shooting at the range.

Shooting is only allowed on official shooting ranges or during hunting season outside of towns and villages.

If you are a civilian there is theoretically a possibility to get a concealed carry license for self defense but I never heard of one being issued with the exception of some civilian employees of NAMSA.

As I'm LEO I can carry my service gun, a SW 686 on the job.

Regards
Tom
 
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Welcome to CGN,it's always nice to see there are gunnutz on the other side of the big pond.If you have any questions or need help with something feel free to ask.
regards onthos
 
Welcome, I never made it to Luxembourg but I'm sure I was near there during one deployment when I was in Germany back in the 80's. We spent some time in a Hitler Youth came in Belgium which they told us was on of the staging areas for the Battle of the Bulge. Very pretty and rugged part of the country.
 
There's a collector's outfit in Luxembourg, they shoot their MGs occasionally, I remember getting an invite. But apparently they can only shoot them on semi-auto... hmm... what was the name... SCAL?
 
Welcome.

Isn't Luxembourg the country where the Russians wanted to confiscate hunting rifles back in the 90's when countries in that area were trying to break free from Russian dominance?
 
Sgt Striker said:
Welcome, I never made it to Luxembourg but I'm sure I was near there during one deployment when I was in Germany back in the 80's. We spent some time in a Hitler Youth came in Belgium which they told us was on of the staging areas for the Battle of the Bulge. Very pretty and rugged part of the country.
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Was it Elsenborn or Vogelsang?
It's quite a nice region and only an hours drive from my place.
 
thanks for the detail explanation of your gun laws.

BTW , i like your collection ... what is the next firearm you plan to add to your collection? welcome.
 
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Ahhhhh Vogelsang rings a bell. I think that was it. They had a very impressive area in the back of the camp for speeches or the like.
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By your description I tought it was Vogelsang, it's not in Belgium but in Germany alltough the camp was used by the Belgium Army till they closed it down a few years ago. It was built by the Nazis as an"Ordensburg", they took the best of the Hitler Youth Kids there, at a very young age, to raise them to be the future leaders of the 1000 year "Reich", before the Battle of the Bulge it was used by the Wehrmacht as a stagibg area.

Elsenborn is just a few miles away on the belgium side of the border and is still in use.
I went to visit Vogelsang once when we were training in Elsenborn. That place is frigging crazy impressive.
 
I find it interesting that Luxemburg cops carry revolvers . I would have thought a Sig or a Glock .
 
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