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Munich (dpa / lby) - Bavaria took 34 suspected extremists of their weapons last year.
According to the Interior Ministry on Tuesday, the weapons authorities received information on 135 people with extremist ties.
4 applications for gun permits were rejected and 20 gun possession bans were imposed.
«Weapons do not belong in the hands of people with extremist ideas.
Here we have to make every effort to counteract any danger, ”said Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann (CSU) in Munich.
The weapons authorities had initiated the revocation of weapons permits against 64 suspects.
14 of them gave up weapons and permits voluntarily.
According to Herrmann, the majority of the license holders, 98 people affected, belong to the right-wing extremist scene with an affinity for weapons as well as to the "Reich Citizens and Self-Governing Movement".
The so-called Reich citizens do not recognize the Federal Republic as a state.
4 other people have links to left-wing extremism, 8 to Islamism and foreign extremism.
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The basis for the disarmament measures is the Third Gun Law Amendment Act, which came into force on February 20, 2020.
It stipulates that membership in an extremist association will result in an application for a gun license being rejected and a previously granted license being withdrawn.
The Supreme Audit Office (ORH) recently accused the Bavarian authorities of failing to monitor gun owners in the Free State.
In its statement, the Ministry of the Interior rejected the criticism in parts and promised improvements in parts.
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Press release from the Ministry of the Interior