Issuing Gun Permits in Weimar Germany

Gun licencing is one of the oldest and most traditional methods of gun regulation. Italy and Spain were among the first modern European states to follow a nationwide system of firearm permits issued by local authorities. Others followed suit in the early twentieth century, including Great Britain and Germany. Here you can see a licence to carry a small handgun in public issued to a German doctor from Berlin in 1927

[Source: Geheimes Staatsarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz]