Maisach - Some concerned citizens of Gernlinden called the police on Saturday, October 9th.
They reported a man armed with a rifle and dressed in all black.
An immediately initiated manhunt for the man was successful.
The 22-year-old was found in Hugo-Brunninger-Straße. He had the rifle slung over his shoulder when the strips arrived. The officers secured the man and then removed the weapon from him. Only then did it emerge that the weapon was a so-called
license-free airsoft weapon
. The rifle was a
deceptively real copy of
a Black Eagle M6, a sniper rifle from the USA. The 22-year-old said he just wanted to go to the nearby field and shoot around there a bit. The weapon was
seized
in order to subject them to a weapons law assessment, in particular with regard to whether technical changes have been made that could increase the maximum permissible firing energy.
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