Permissibility of weapons license review without specific cause following issuance of annual hunting license

The Federal Administrative Court (BVerwG) granted leave for appeal, allowing the plaintiff to proceed against the lower court's decision in the underlying administrative law dispute. The case concerns a challenge to a routine fitness and reliability review conducted under the Weapons Act without a person-specific occasion, where approximately two years had elapsed since the last review and the individual had previously been issued an annual hunting license, which itself requires a reliability check under the Federal Hunting Act. The court determined that the appeal possesses fundamental legal significance because it requires clarification on whether such an administrative review is legally permissible or necessary under § 4 Abs. 3 of the Weapons Act given these specific circumstantial factors, particularly in relation to the overlapping requirements of § 17 Abs. 1 Satz 2 of the Federal Hunting Act.