⭓ PERU: To buy: No licenses required, no restrictions
▪ On power
▪ On caliber
To bring in your luggage or order online: Required is a a stack of paper work, to request the "importation" of:
▪ Airguns
▪ Scopes
▪ Pellets
Time to process paperwork: More than 1 month....
Hunting: ▪ Permitted with a hunting license ($40, 2 day presential course requiered)
▪ However, beside a few ducks, pigeons, and hares there is not much on the government permission list that you can legally shoot at (scratch off your kill list: squirrels, pest birds like starlings, rats).
▪ Good luck submitting your paperwork to apply for a
pesting permit in a certain location....
(And you'll need more than luck, actually.)
⭓ GERMANY: To own and to hunt:
6.5FPE (7J) is the limit. If that seems unbelieveably low — it
is. Outrageously low.
Hunting is strictly forbidden for airgunners.
Many city Germans consider hunters to either somehow related to
contract killers or
mass murderers. (—and this is only a slight exageration—)
If you want any more power in an airgun a fullfledged GUN LICENSE is required — which over the years has gotten:
➧ so difficult to obtain (think college level examination),
➧ so expensive to pay for (think 4 digits amounts in US$),
and
➧ so laboriously long to get a hunting license (think a year playing wildlife conservation officer)
—
that in effect most people simply can't get it. I consider
America's Second Amendment a ray of SUNSHINE in this otherwise BLEAK picture.
Germany sorely needs something like this....
But after Hitler with WWII messed up most of the Western world — the Germans still haven't gotten over
their national guilt — after 80 years(!!) — therefore
German legislators prefer to prohibit anything related to guns and things that go bang (severe limits on fireworks, cap guns, etc.).
➠ Well, on the bright side — I'm currently living and shooting in Peru — so I'm doing A LOT of paperwork — but at least I get to shoot and hunt!!
I'm thankful!
Matthias