During the 20th plenary session, senators approved the law “On weapons”. After that, many citizens began to express different opinions. In general, many people are against this law.
According to the document, weapons are categorized as civilian, official and military. Individuals are allowed to use civilian weapons. These include weapons designed for hunting and sports, as well as for use in self-defense.
Civilian weapons are divided into:
1) hunting weapon:
- firearm with a rifled barrel;
- smooth-bore firearms, including with a length of the rifled part of not more than one hundred and forty millimeters;
- combined firearms (with a rifled barrel and smooth-bore), including interchangeable and supplementary rifled barrels;
- air guns with a muzzle energy of more than 7.5 joules and a caliber of more than 4.5 millimeters;
- cold bladed weapons (hunting knives, hunting stilettos and daggers);
- signal weapons.
2) sporting weapons:
- firearm with a rifled barrel;
- fire smooth-bore weapons;
- cold bladed weapons (rapiers, swords and sabers);
- throwing weapons (bows, crossbows and spears);
- air guns with a muzzle energy of more than 3 joules;
- signal weapons.
3) self-defense weapon:
- gas weapons – gas cartridges, mechanical sprays, aerosol and other devices equipped with tear gas;
- electroshock devices, spark gaps and other devices, the damaging effect of which is based on the use of electrical energy.
According to the law, a gas weapon is a weapon designed to temporarily defeat a living target by using tears or irritants.
In this case, the law states that civilian firearms must exclude firing in bursts and have a magazine capacity (drum) of no more than ten rounds. The law itself notes that a firearm is a weapon designed to mechanically hit a target at a distance with a projectile that receives directional movement at the expense of the energy of a powder or other charge.
