The man's collection first raised suspicion from neighbors seeing random male visitors coming to the man's house followed by constant giggling coming from the basement.
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German lawyers wrangle over pensioner's WW2 tank in basement
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At a court hearing on Monday in the city of Kiel, about 100km (60 miles) north of Hamburg, lawyers were trying to determine whether the man's military collection had violated Germany's War Weapons Control Act.
The act regulates the manufacture, sale, and transport of weapons of war.
Since the items were already manufactured, I can't see that definition being met. He wasn't offering them for sale, and the only ones transporting them were the people that seized them from the basement.
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Verurteilt wurde der 84-Jährige letztlich nur im Fall eines Maschinengewehr-Laufs und zweier Patronen wegen Besitzes einer Kriegswaffe.
He was only convicted for one machine gun barrel and two cartridges but sentenced to a € 250 000 fine and a 1.5 suspended sentence.
Germany truly has insane weapons laws (I say as an Austrian). If we had that high fines for people hoarding weapons of war we could abolish taxes.
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