Interesting. What is the reason for having one? Meth cooks? Charging boars? Aggressive poachers?
I'm genuinely curious though as an American I believe you should carry one loaded and concealed anywhere you want without needing a reason
All of them a bit, poachers and wannabe-gun-thiefs.
There was an incident lately where two police officers were shot in a traffic control by poachers.
They are at court right now.
Since then carrying a handgun is more back in fashion for hunters.
And because owning a gun isn´t that easy, some may try to get one without permission and paying.
It´s seldom, but it happens.
The ancient German hunting ethic (Waidgerechtigkeit) is a codex which is learned in schooling and by the hunting prince (Jagdprinz, kind of a master for so called young hunters (Jungjäger), which you are in the first 3 years as a hunter).
It says, that it is the hunter´s duty and pride, to kill the animal as fast as possible and with as less pain as possible.
This is taken very serious.
So if you hit an animal and it flees hurt, you must follow it up and kill it asap.
That´s the main reason for me to carry a handgun when hunting.
Redeem hurt animals after traffic accidents is another reason, where the area hunter is called by the police to come and do so.
And trap hunting, where you catch the animals (predators) alive (check the trap twice a day or use a radio sensor) is a reason for the handgun too.
Carrying a handgun all day would be nice.
But honestly crime rates are much lower in Germany, especially homicides or violence crimes in general.
Well, there is a bit of an uprise since a few years, but I´m living in the countryside and it is very peaceful here.
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