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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…

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