“Extreme passion for collecting”: gun nut from Regensburg has to go to addiction counseling. “It's embarrassing for me,” says the man with the little tummy, bald head and glasses when judge Cornelia Blankenhorn asks him (not the only time) why he's sitting here again.

In 2015 he was sentenced to a suspended sentence of one and a half years. Also because of a weapon found in his house. Two military weapons, 20 firearms, mostly functional, ammunition and two banned switchblades had previously been confiscated.