Members of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party cannot legally possess firearms under the country's weapons law because the party has been deemed a suspected extremist group.
The Dusseldorf Administrative Court ruled on Monday that a married couple must surrender all of their firearms, dismissing a lawsuit brought by the couple over the revocation of their firearms possession permits.
Germany's BfV domestic intelligence agency has formally placed the AfD under suspicion of working to undermine the country's democratic constitution. That was upheld in May by an administrative court, which rejected an AfD lawsuit over the designation.
The married couple have a large number of firearms - 197 weapons in the case of the husband and 27 weapons in the case of the wife - which they must now either turn over or destroy. They are also required to give up any ammunition.
The Dusseldorf court, however, will allow an appeal against the decision because of its potentially important implications for other members of the political party.
