Originally Posted by
aerobat77
The gun laws in germany are extremly tight and posession and carry of live ammunition without permission ( which he surely did not have for germany ) is nothing else than a criminal act. So thats the problem.
Right, but once they found the ammunition in the trash bin, which came from who knows where, the captain only took possession of that ammunition of unknown origin in order to turn it over the the proper authorities at the very soonest possible moment.
Even the Germans wouldn't consider him to be in violation of the law under those circumstances.