and they can come to us and we try to figure out how to help them best. benjamin stein is from the research and information department on anti semitism here in berlin we thank you very very much for coming in and sharing your insights with us thank you miles. you're watching the news coming to you from berlin omarion evanston for me and the entire team thanks for watching. if it is time to take one step further and face the. time to search the. fight for the troops. to overcome ballerinas has come back to the world it's time for t.w.

. coming up ahead. i never thought i'd find myself doing something like this my name's by gosh steinbrenner and i'm a reporter but today i'm a freedom fighter and my mission is to take the enemy's base. and with some 500 comrades in ops all armed to the teeth at a former military base near mucked about. with the cover of fire shoot this is. compulsory military service ended in germany in 2011 but more and more people are getting into john. what is a weapon like this do to you and to me that's what i want to find out that much i ask.

it. because we aren't using lethal weapons these are airsoft guns looking credibly real and cost around a $1000.00 euros each. they only fire small plastic balls. but it still hurts. i got here that's my 1st one and one more and i'm out. of all of them to all the other popular shooting games include laser tag and paint ball the bullets are still quite high velocity which is why we only wear goggles and you can't play until you're 18. the demand is huge here in knocked about alone the number of players has increased

10 fold since 2013. everybody seems to know what to do apart from me i'm a complete novice. coach and i'm actually pretty stupid here but it's not something that comes naturally to me i'm a civilian at heart. military service wasn't for me i refused and did civilian service instead and then i presented a kid show. but as a journalist now of course i'm curious where does this new love of guns come from. ok ok can we take a short break here. so muscle group the crazy monkeys does this a long as nobody knows what excites you why do you like it. more you with your

curls for sure but it's all about strategy it's just great fun us this is not playing toward you. it's really hard to say. you know we don't want war. ok the weapons look real well you shouldn't just run across the road with one 0 it is example combats why we're in an enclosed space here you should only play with your guns here we comply with very strict rules if we didn't get to be no game. so cops and robbers for grownups ok got it but what's it like to carry a real gun i designed to visit a high 9 funds police academy to find out. if you're ready and waiting for your signal. this is target practice for juliana my she's 20 and in her 2nd year as

a police trainee. she's using her future service weapon and of course live ammunition. it takes 3 years to become a qualified police officer thank you thank. thank. you. off quite often. while that's still pretty lousy business you can still feel it but you know you're right. and so how do you feel when you're practicing are you nervous for an offer that as a chairman was that well you know it's a practice situation but you still get an adrenaline rush and you do get nervous i'm always nervous when i'm here but you also learn to respect the gun ok but it's good time for the weapon is also part of your job isn't it jobs it's just that i

know of course it gives you security and you have a weapon to use if you have to. and how have you ever had a situation where you had to use your gun and most of the thing was. i was once in a situation i was just one step away from using guns you stand there you're full of adrenaline trembling pumped full of adrenaline and then of course it's difficult to just aim at the arms and legs so she's in the 1st visit that means when you're actually a doctor or so right action explain extremely tense situation what's going on inside you. you get tunnel vision with but you don't notice what's happening around you. it's a really crazy stressful situation. to prepare officers for situations like this recruits receive legal and ethical training in addition to weapons handling. the task today is to disassemble and reassemble the weapon using only

a practice pistol of course. affect. the band 1st a 1000000000. dollars go outside and have some handling training. again with practice weapons and no ammunition. but when you're facing straight ahead you should always know where your weapon. is pointing without looking where is your pepper spray where is a billy club we'll start with a gun. and take up a firing position. i've already been shot. that's what. so you got your pepper spray put your thumb in their holder like a gun put your thumb in there with al-qaeda and if you press it.

you can be trained to handle a weapon i couldn't imagine using a real gun in an emergency. so if you are getting ready here. i and most people in germany today find carrying a gun unthinkable but what was it like before when there were no gun laws. today i'm on my way to school to find out all has the only museum in europe for handguns. guns are being manufactured here in the thuringian forest since the middle ages in the museum you can see many firearms made by local gunsmiths it's real craftsmanship then industrialization make guns more affordable and they can be found in almost every household. journalist and gun expert lars being closed off

knows all about germany's relationship with these weapons. what is the most common got some people took pocket revolvers with them on long journeys in every village at a police entry but seeing a police patrol on the road as we do today was very uncommon it's. ok it's not like ireland rast. last but what else did you have with you this is a classic gun and park revolver a cyclist's. some of them can be bought a successor bicycle shop sat by the others were sold together with bicycles who would have shot that's what they're supposed to chase dogs away they didn't take kindly to the newly developed bicycle of the sort of revolver was part of your cycle kit at the time like pumps are repaired tools are today. it was

a very different times like. but after the world war defeats and the peace movement of the 1980 s. guns largely disappeared from our everyday lives peaceful germany i always imagined it to be so but is that still true. the message that it's the number suggests there's a revival of god is like langston hunting licenses where's that come from china why qantas doesn't interest has increased because people feel they need the extra security events are exploited by the media like new year's eve in cologne they've also contributed to this. that's the legal side what's the situation on the illegal side is that growing to so on up to stuart on about it. this is a water of b.p. the typical police pistol from the last war tens of thousands of lives have been traded on the black markets and prizes a risen. so i could buy one relatively easily from the black market sure. legal guns have only been registered nationally since 2013 there are 6000000

registered in germany and experts think there are least 10000000 illegal guns left unregistered some even say up to 30000000. how easy is it for me to get a firearm in germany. i have an appointment with helmet i don't mean. you wondering about. i don't know how almost out of me i'm here to have a little look around to get it. helmet is a 6th generation gunsmith in his workshop he mainly makes high precision hunting weapons he makes all the barrels breeches and changes here. fine rivaling all grooves inside the barrel stabilize the trajectory of the bullets. helmets exclusive craft. and ship is sold all over the world some of his weapons

cost as much as $19000.00 euros. to do it go ahead take it. yes it's not loaded. heavy how long to make one like this traditional between one and 4 years it always depends on the finish just 100 so you're now have. a good record i cleared the nose and that explains the price. so under what conditions could i buy a gun do i need. to buy a gun for me you need a hunting license and then you can even buy long guns anything your heart desires to get ok it's i'm not a hunter or a shooter and i don't have a hunting license i only have an id card could i get 20 just off to do if you're over 18 and i assume you are. you could buy an air rifle up to 7.5 jewels you could buy a blank or

a gas gun in this nexus one photograph of ok can i see it through to sure over here we've got some blank firing guns out here. because it often looks pretty real to me . walter payne 229 millimeter caliber p.a. . let me see that there you go. it's heavy isn't it actually feels like a real gamut. of. the user gun it's not it's a gun there's no looks like a gun too so maybe it's doing its job to scare someone. absoluteness of the ok my wife won't even let me touch the kitchen knives or. moses put this in here yet that's the way they always do it. now. but back when you're unloading always. it's loaded so you're going to laugh but my hands are actually a bit sweaty and this is really the 1st time i've had i think like this in my hands

tied yeah and i tried out actually firing it compare we can do that ok going to do you come around the corner with me and put on your ear protectors really considering your tough. and so it'll be loud back i'll take the magazine and load it to my cartridges and those are the other way around. i think we're going to need you know put the magazine in the gun and just always keep the barrel down. load. the carriage back and forth once she's going to shoot. up the safety zone. i reload it so that i don't believe it would have ever thought of me already. yet you know shoot. good heavens.

it's bound to you it's going to still to win there. you know. good you're going to shoot again. 6 this really is something else. this thing is so loud and although i know it's firing blanks honestly i have a lot of respect for it despite that. i can carry my pistol with me unless the safety catches on to carry small arms within reach you need a small gun license which is becoming more and more popular the number of small license holders has more than doubled since 2013 with a huge increase in the 15. so now i've got my blind gun neatly packed so i can carry it with me but just to remind you anyone over 18 can buy something like this. but anyone who buys

a gun illegally isn't interested in the law. in germany a one year weapons amnesty ended in may 2018 illegal guns could be handed over to the police with impunity here at the bomb disposal center in boston but they are collected and destroyed. the business is a machine gun and in for most every machine gun you can tell that from the sound when it's fired but this is our comes out once we've put it through the incinerator . will tell what it was. the guns are burned to separate the words and other materials from the steal anything left ends up in the smelter. legal guns were also surrendered during the amnesty in germany they're only allowed with a firearms ownership license and have them on you within reach you need

a license to carry. most guns in germany are owned by hunters 417. 1000 hunters are listed in the gun register there are also 376000 recreational shooters and 97000 people who inherited guns but who's prepared to hand i mean. there's the classic case of a deceased grandfather who was a hunter or a sports shooter and now the weapons legally. of course they're also illegal weapons and decorative weapons that people hang over the fireplace or something. but i would say there's been a considerable process of rethinking since they've been in school shooting. people said actually we want guns out of the house after all these are things that people can be shot dead with. here in boston verdun back alone the amnesty brought in about 14000 guns more than 5000 of them unregistered although most guns now get

melted down not all of them go straight to the incinerator. somersaulted and sent to the criminal police in stuttgart focus from the firearms recalled service has hundreds of pistols revolvers and rifles that gun seized journal wide range of investigations. he uses them to reconstruct the chronology of events. and they were either illegal property or murder weapons ok. there's a lot here. the guns 1st go to the evidence room next door that's just i mean that's one of the weapons that was handed in during the amnesty. now we have to fire it. ok but because he and i have been used in a crime that correct. if so this is our firing room ok

you're right over the water tank. i think that's right given the water ensures that the markings left on the bullet by the barrel are not changed. today we're shooting a water p.-p. k. and i suspect it will be loud. that what. we're going to fire 3 shots. the bullet shoots half a meter through the water and is collected from the bottom of the tank.

and. now you can see the markings of the surface of the barrel. if you look at this under a microscope you can often see fine structures that come from the barrel and by comparing them with other projectiles you can often identify them. and died 25 the gun use that sensational. the federal criminal police send them to us and we compare them with our store of munitions used in criminal cases. so i brought myself a gun that doesn't need bullets it's a blank is it really harmless you can try it. this watermelon will make a great test subject. your protectors are. ok

. when descended to ft when you see how deep the shot is despite the melon being relatively hard. i wouldn't want to blank held my head. off it sharks are still dangerous so you should mess around with only. mr possum ok kind they're definitely not toys. so owning a gun is a big responsibility who's actually suitable. block is professor of forensic psychology and braman and a police profiler he thinks he knows how people work especially those who are interested in comments. from a teacher you see a lot of people showing interest very different people if there is

a fascination but how can you tell if someone would be responsible for that sort of a form you can't of course you have to do appropriate research would you come in here you can see that certain people groups of people are attracted to weapons knives pistols revolvers they're fascinated but the reasons can be very different and that's what you have to find out. who. has co-develop to suitability test for this purpose young gun buyers have to take it as do adult gun owners who have stood out for some reason. content of us contact with firearms. but. mentally ask about knives 1st i want them and also your own pocket knives yes my pocket knife was a knife because i brought one so you have got one with you. because. i always carry it in my. case. why do you need

a pocket knife. to slice cheese off at a picnic picnic you slice cheese him public every day so there's a bottle opener in a multi-tool to. this is a dangerous object and and it deadly weapon that you're carrying around with you see did you ever think about that if it is i would use it against people of course it all likely against salami or cheese. are you aware of the law in florida you're allowed to carry a knife under one not honestly. and that's the impression i get just tell me if any of these sentences apply to you when i'm angry i don't mince my words yes if i've done a lot of things wrong in my life. i sometimes feel like others are laughing at me i hope others laugh at me it's even if someone is unusually kind to me i get

suspicious. if i get yelled at or yell back could happen here i was tortured animals and everything worms or anything else but you could just stomp on them. sometimes i imagine what a just punishment would be for those who treat me badly. seriously considered suicide and i know. i never 9 now haven't but you know pre-adolescent crisis ok one last question i sometimes spread rumors about people i don't like. but when this was news it was about myself and ten's and i want to take a little break and then i'll be sweating. we'll talk again after i've done an evaluation. of these out to 2 tests have been done on tens of thousands of people including criminals and gun owners with no criminal record for the evaluation these results are compared with my answers. yeah.

i've done your going away should look like in terms of gun laws you would be absolutely harmless. but it's. we quite often hear people say that they feel a certain fascination with weapons or the technology behind a lot of the craftsmanship and so on that's high but this doesn't mean that they want to be violent or use the weapon. you know those who have a more depressive paranoid saturday me against the world they all want something from me i don't fit into this world so. they become socially isolated withdrawn socially they represent the greatest threat in the flight not the people who are maybe fascinated by things like guns maybe even have an erotic relationship with guns which we would ask about but they're not a source of great danger because of the. having passed the test i now feel ready to finally shoot

a real guy i am allowed to do this with the german rifle association an offshoot of the american profile rahm's pressure group the national rifle association. safety briefing from shooting instructor we start with a magnet. before. the other hand then you can cut. quite a kick my fingers are sweaty again. if you really notice something happen there it's a weapon stop us. it gets worse the 15 semiautomatic rifle.

shotgun that's in a whole different league. like this. insert the cartridge and draw back at. the winchester defender is a pump action shotgun. for word and forward again now there's another one of the breech. still too high ok. anyone can take part in all of his trial courses the german rifle association has 16000 members and they consider the german too strict like in the us they want weapons for almost everyone. if god is what about a pensioner who lives in her apartment think can't run away or defenders off with martial arts or. handicapped people. or women who have been

attacked maybe if they are just shown a gun the attacker would have backed off it's. a plus. people who want to buy a gun for self protection in germany are often refused a license they have to prove that their own lives are more at risk than those of the rest of society this applies for example to employees of cash in transit companies or security personnel but would private firearms really make our society safer a counter-example is australia where semiautomatic rifles were banned in 1996 since then the number of deaths from shooting every year has harped suicides using firearms have also dropped to less than a 3rd. but i have to admit one thing. although i don't think gun should be freely available here in

a shooting range it's pretty cool. why did i find shooting fun i'm going to find out at the university hospital in austin undergo a test by dr klaus my head of psychosomatic so that your. new narrative i don't have a real gun in my hand so is it anything like reality. from what we know of course the mechanics are somewhat different but it seems the brain responds in exactly the same way for a simulation and a real situation. catches. on curiously so i'll take off anything metallic that are exactly 2 or 3 minutes set up over here. to find out what happens in my head when i shoot i take an m.r.i. scan. with a joystick in my hand and a screen above me i have to shoot as many opponents as possible.

klaus observes how my brain reacts. and indeed every time i hit an opponent the reward system is activated at the same time the part of the brain responsible for empathy is switched off. so could shooting games numb your real senses. belin and if you shoot people in these games again and again that's fine it's a 2000000 times a year and suppress your emotions to do so and maybe even get a reward stimulus. writes that can also influence your long term behavior for the office by a prison term. i found the game in the simulator rather boring so i was all the more surprised by the results of the experiment. as

a service shooting stimulates the reward system in our brains i can imagine that. the idea that our emotions like empathy are down bend at the same time i find questionable but they. come to our neighbors in switzerland see it the swiss are known to be peace loving folk but at the same time they are not afraid of guns today there are about $32.00 guns both legal and illegal ones per $100.00 inhabitants in australia it's 30 whereas in germany it's just 20 so it's a completely different gun culture. you can also see this at the 0 and she said the city's oldest fare one weekend a year everything here revolves around shooting organizer cloudier get explains it to me. is that you can buy for her that you can get on a tram in switzerland openly carrying an assault rifle is that really the case and is it legal is that it is that this leak out it's legal. and it happens.

it's becoming increasingly rare because most were taken in a car now but in principle an assault rifle can be taken into a club or explodes refuel it almost guns. about $5000.00 young people between $13.17 compete against each other in the shooting contest including 14 year old. people have been competing in the canal been shiism since the 17th century when it marked the end of the unloved summer military drill exercises girls have also been allowed to take part since 1991 children as young as 8 can take part at another range next door. here at the 25 meter range kid shoot with an air rifle and pistol all crossbow.

it's jasper's turn and around a corner gives the briefing he's been looking after the young shooters for 50 years . to use the swiss army's assault rifle. so let's get started. there you go load the rifle there. like this. then slowly or don't feel with the trigger. next to you on a pressure point don't call. the target is 300 meters away shooting is down lying down for better control because a stray bullet can fly up to 4 kilometers there's a lot of competition. the shooting king wins $5000.00 francs and up to 5 shots

it's all over sadly yes but didn't do well enough this year. oh no upper left wonder own right so in the middle would have been 6. when you asked for joins the army in a few years he'll even be allowed to take his rifle home with him as that's when mark seems like that rifle really packs a punch that i feel like it's a real gun and with a real bulletin it is for that if people beaten us not i who is because it's the canard machine so it's normal. since i've always known it like that. ok so it's nothing special for you but you can learn something once a year that's cool ok best of luck next. this. it is no coincidence that william tell is the national hero of switzerland but shooting also has a long tradition in germany the oldest shooting clubs here have been around for

several 100 years. shooting sports are especially popular in bavaria and lower saxony in eastern germany the figure is significantly lower shooting was forbidden in the g.d. are. visiting the xcel shooting club in hessen where 14 year old kalgoorlie is training. with around 1400000 members of the german shooting federation is one of the largest german sports associations kalin wears stiff shooting clothes to give her a more stable posture. unlike in switzerland young people here shoot only with air rifles. there's a special reason why catalin took up this hobby 2 years ago she was struggling with her concentration and her mother had the idea to register with the rifle club she'd heard that shooting can have a therapeutic effect and boost attention span since then carolyn has been training

at least twice a week the 2 hour session not only includes shooting but also progressive muscle relaxation. so you still remember what you were lying 2 years ago the vast adama asked how well i was still very young focused and didn't have that much stamina and stuff. and ok and what happened to how do you feel now compared to then. and i've become much better at school i'm getting much better grades and can definitely concentrate well in class. and you'd say that it's related to this for. what next you've been to the history and championships you're going to be a star. i definitely want my next goal is the german championships next

year. karlyn sporting performance is impressive but i would probably look for a different form of therapy for my children. last stop on my journey in brandenburg here there's plenty of forest game and of course hunters the people with the most weapons in germany who actually use them. by a company 26 year old forester then some. can't wait to see the. it's the this was the 1st loss and the safety catches on. it's a. little sticky m.-o. in my bag. when we load when we are in position so it's ok but

is it. so once we're in the words we won't be able to talk so let me ask you now when you're just about to shoot how do you feel stiff and food. and spunk i'm relaxed you feel nervous when you're still very inexperienced i was still a bit shaky with the 1st animals i killed. but it happens to every hunter no matter what kind of animal you kill. the 1st is always something special. when you have a gun in your hand and know or hope the next shot will be fatal do you feel some sort of power to the mind of. the weapon is for me a tool of my profession just like a chainsaw it has nothing to do with power or anything. i just need to know exactly how to use this tool safely but doesn't hide all the shows ok.

to partake care of me when you're lazy like me most people get used to the gun eventually there are more hunters today than ever before and among them more and more women are the brunt of both forestry department specifies which animals can be shot animals that have been hit or off sick and also have to be shot a good hunter aims at the heart and lungs so the animals don't suffer for long. practices regularly on the shooting range hunting licenses must be renewed after 3 years. and await trial we play cards. no charge and watch us not in south in my forty's. and so we wait.

and wait. and wait and actually hoping we don't see anything when a is a suddenly becomes restless. why

do we still straight over have in place because you give the animal chance to lose its life in peace. as. well as with quest best if it notices there is an enemy near it gets an adrenaline rush in the final moments and it stresses the animal out and we don't want that. as we walk over to the d.m. my knees are pretty shaky it's the 1st time i've seen a weapon used to kill anything. on. you. i mean. i. shot was just right the dia died instantly. as long it's you know we drag it back

we don't want to do anything right here. lift the back no just come forward and we can drag it back so. you can hold it lower. i don't like the head dragging. that's not so terrible we don't want anything from the head it'll be dog food. that's why raise you're so happy because she hasn't been fed today in the year short of i had heard before the end of. the animal must be gutted immediately to prevent bacteria from settling on the meat during the decomposition process with hunting shooting still maintains its original function killing. me kyla knows what she's doing and has a sense of responsibility that goes for everyone i've met on my trip but unfortunately a lot of people don't seem to have those standards. and that's why this is now

clearer to me than ever before guns don't belong in the hands of anybody. go to college. keep learning realises wait a 2nd we want the whole picture perfect so they don't make i.d.'s shift deliver us . from augmented reality to cryptocurrency to your top it's for live in an ever

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