Forum Waffenrecht
The forum Forum Waffenrecht e. V., or Weapons Law Association (FWR), is a German association that represents the interests of legal firearms owners. It consists of some 200 organizations and the non-voting sponsoring 30,000 individuals.
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[edit] Lobbying
The FWR, as with the German Shooting Federation, the German equivalent of the National Rifle Association, Prolegal, the JSM, the VdW and FvLW, is registered as a lobbying group in the directory of the German Bundestag.[1]
International Forum on gun rights, along with BDMP, NRA, SAAMI and others, is a Founding member of the WFSA World Forum on the Future of Sport Shooting Activities, which is invited to all UN small arms conferences as an NGO with consultative status.
The FWR seeks the legal improvements by lobbying to change the law and to prevent new and more odious restrictions for legitimate gun owners. The association has been present at all Interior Ministry hearings into amendments to German firearms legislation.
[edit] Members
- Association of Manufacturers of hunting, sporting arms and ammunition (JSM)
- Association of German gunsmith and weapons dealer e. V.
- Association for the wholesale and foreign trade in hunting and sporting weapons e. V.
- Federal Association for the gunsmith trade
- Association of shooting ranges e. V.
- Bund Deutscher Sportschützen (Union of German sport shooters) e. V.
- Bund der Militär- und Polizeischützen (Confederation of military and police shooters) e. V.
- Verband für Waffentechnik und -geschichte (Association of weapons technology and history) (VDW)
- Association of History Live e. V.
- Cartridge Collectors Association e. V.
- Industry Association of cutlery
- Board of Trustees for the promotion of historical weapons collection eV
- TIRO - Association for Sporting Shooting
- DEVA, the German experimental and testing laboratory for hunting and sporting weapons
- Deutsche Schießsportunion DSU, the German Shooting Union
and numerous companies, including the publisher Deutsches Waffen-Journal, other associations and local and regional groups from all areas of hunting, target shooting, collecting weapons, ammunition and knives.
The Forum works closely with legal gun groups
More than 30,000 individual members from various associations and groups support the work as associate members of the Association Forum weapons law.
