Weapons

The below is guidance only. Amazon reserves the right to remove any listing it considers to be inappropriate for sale for any reason.

Examples of Permitted Listings

• BB or bullets for softair guns
• Blowguns, harpoons; sold only to people aged 18 or more (the option "Fulfillment by Amazon" is prohibited)
• Bows/Hunting Bows
• Knives if classified as weapons, throwing knives; sold only to people aged 18 or more (the option "Fulfillment by Amazon" is prohibited)
• Bulletproof vests
• Softair guns with a kinetic energy of less than 0.5 joules which are not considered to be weapons

Examples of Prohibited Listings

• Explosives
• Prohibited explosive precursors
• Grenades
• Certain guns/firearms and equivalent objects such as
• Fireweapons which include:
• Gunparts or accessories which assist the use of the gun (e. g. silencers, target spotlights)
• Gunparts incl. triggers
• Gun kits
• Spring-operated weapons, compressed air weapons and weapons, which use cold propellants (e. g. CO2) to expel the projectile with a kinetic energy of more than 0.5 joule
• Weapons of war according to the German War Weapons Control Act ("Kriegswaffenkontrollgesetz"), antique guns and weapons which models are based on designs that were developed before the 1st January 1871
• Signaling guns to fire pyrotechnic ammunition (incl. starting pistols) and the ammunition
• Precision slingshots or slingshots with a wrist-brace or similar device to achieve a maximum of kinetic energy
• Crossbows (except toy crossbows; toy crossbows are crossbows that have an elastic tip (e. g. rubber suction cups) where the maximum kinetic energy of the projectiles' tips does not exceed 0.16 J/cm2)
• Automatic guns
• Portable objects, such as
• Steel rods
• Clubs ("Totschläger")
• Brass knuckles
• Knuckledusters
• Throwing stars
• Tasers
• Nun-chakus
• Batons
• Certain knives such as
• Fist knives
• Gravity knives
• Butterfly knives (incl. Butterfly training knives which are advertised as toys)
• Spring knives/flick knives, regardless of their blade length
• Tear gas
• Guns and cutting or thrust weapons shaped so that they can pass for another object or can be disguised as everyday items such as griffin-grips, sword canes, stick guns, ball pen guns
• Products defined as prohibited weapons according to a notice of assessment of the federal criminal police (“BKA”) or based on the German Weapons Act
• Any molding forms/kits for prohibited weapons (such as brass knuckles, fist knives/push daggers etc.)
• Munition for guns, especially
• Fixed ammunition
• Shell ammunition
• Ammunition with no shell
• Pyrotechnic ammunition (including pyrotechnic cartridges, non-cartridge pyrotechnic ammunition, pyrotechnic ammunition to which the propulsion device is secured
• Projectiles for firearms
• Pistol magazines if the magazine has a capacity of more than 20 bullets
• Rifle magazines if the magazine has a capacity of more than 10 bullets

Related Amazon Help pages

• Fulfillment by Amazon ("FBA") product restrictions
• FBA prohibited products

Additional Useful Information

• European Commission's information on EU legislation on firearms, https://ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors/firearms_de
• Notices of assessment of the federal criminal police ("BKA"), https://www.bka.de/DE/UnsereAufgaben/Deliktsbereiche/Waffen/Feststellungsbescheide/feststellungsbescheide_node.html
• German Weapons Act, http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/waffg_2002/
• European Commission's information on EU legislation on explosive precursors, https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/what-we-do/policies/crisis-and-terrorism/explosives/explosives-precursors_en
• German Act on Explosives ("Sprengstoffgesetz") https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/sprengg_1976/ 
• First annex to the German Act on Explosives https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/sprengv_1/