(a) if the person has 1 kind of pistol, the person must participate in at least 6 shoots, (1) The holder of a category H licence must be a member of a pistol club and must participate in shooting activities as follows. „Schwarzbuch Waffenhandel.NSW Firearms Regulation 2017 Part 10 section 106 states (redacted): In nearly all cases of arms exports, the final destination cannot be secured, as small arms are mobile goods in an international grey or black market, supplying conflict parties in numerous wars and regional conflicts with the necessary firepower. In some of these states, German arms help autocratic regimes put down peaceful demonstrations or democracy movements, in others, they are being used to crush regional autonomy movements or commit ethnic cleansing, human rights abuses and crimes against humanity.
In the past years, German small arms producers, including Walther and Heckler&Koch, managed to sell 14-17 million Euro worth of guns to non-EU countries each year, including such „human right champions“ as Bahrain, Indonesien, Irak, Israel, Katar, Kosovo, Libanon, Mexiko, Philippinen, Saudi-Arabien, Thailand. In 1993, Carl Walther GmbH was bought up by another German arms produced, Umarex, which again boosted the export of small arms and light weapons to countries outside of the EU. The successor of the P38, the P1, became a staple gun of the newly founded West German army, the Bundeswehr, while arms exports to regions of war and crisis became an important part of the company’s new business model. However, with the end of the Allied occupation and the founding of the Federal Republic in 1949, Walther began to once again produce guns and pistols.
Countless crimes against humanity were committed with Walther guns, which played a prominent role in the holocaust and the war against Germany’s neighbors.Īfter the war, the company moved to allied-controlled West Germany and managed to reinvent itself as a producer of office materials. At the height of its success as one of Germany’s leading arms producers in the war years 1943-1945, Walther employed 2.500 regular employees and large numbers of slave laborers in the concentration camp Neuengamme near Hamburg. In fact, the company, which was founded in Thurigina in 1886 by Carl Walther, had its greatest successes during the Nazi era, when it produced the standard military pistol of Hitler’s Wehrmacht – the „legendardy P38“, as it is called on the company’s website. On its homepage, the company boasts that „in almost all countries on earth, people shoot with WALTHER weapons, which have proven their outstanding quality in millions of cases.“ The company calls itself „a German success story“. The Carl Walther GmbH is one of Germany’s most important small arms manufacturers.
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