The Government of the Russian Federation supported the bill on shortening of civilian weapons

The Government of the Russian Federation, according to Kommersant, supported the bill changing the requirements for the size of civilian and service weapons. Its minimum permissible length is proposed to reduce from 0.8 m to 0.7 m, and the minimum barrel length is from 0.5 m to 0.3 m. The authors of the amendments from the State Duma explain that the current standards are outdated and limit the spread of sports carabiners. The same bill prohibits the removal of weapons licenses for unpaid fines under the Code of Administrative Offenses, providing for administrative arrest.

The draft amendments to the Federal Law “On Weapons” in March of this year was introduced to the State Duma by a group of three senators and five deputies, including the head of the parliamentary labor committee of Yaroslav Nilov (LDPR). The current law prohibits the circulation of civilian and service firearms (with a store with a capacity of more than ten rounds) with a total length of less than 0.8 m and less than 0.5 m long. Deputies propose to reduce these requirements to 0.7 m and 0.3 m. The parliamentarians offer the same bill to change Art. 13 of the Law: in the current version, she prohibits the issuance of a license for the acquisition of weapons to those who were held accountable under Article 20.25 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (non -payment during the administrative fine). Parliamentarians offer to remove this ban.

In the explanatory note, the authors of the amendments say that the current requirements for the length of the rifles and trunks “are obsolete in nature”, “do not reflect the prevailing realities in the arms market”, preventing, for example, the spread of sports carbines. The decrease in the requirements for the dimensions of weapons, in their opinion, does not create « socially dangerous » risks and does not give « products by the properties of hidden wearing. » Explaining the need to amend in Art. 13 of the Law “On Weapons”, deputies provide data from the Judicial Department under the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation – under part 1 of the “Arrest” Art. 20.25 Administrative Code of the Russian Federation on non -payment of fines on time annually considered up to 1.4 million administrative cases. Given the mass nature of the application of such an article in practice, parliamentarians propose to exclude it from the grounds for withdrawing weapons licenses.

The Government of the Russian Federation as a whole approved the bill. The project of the recall of the White House (“Kommersant”) says that the document does not contradict acts of “higher legal force” and it was supported by the Ministry of Economic Development, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Justice and the Russian Guard. But the White House has comments to him. According to officials, the exclusion of Art. 20.25 Administrative Code of the Russian Federation from the list of grounds for withdrawing licenses can lead to the fact that citizens will begin to abuse their rights and actually do not pay fines. The Government of the Russian Federation will support the bill, subject to the exclusion of this norm from its text.

“The reduction in the length of the weapon barrel is necessary for the development of sports disciplines, in particular tactical shooting,” the lawyer and a member of the federation of long -distance shooting Alexander Prauyev commented on the bill. The deputy chairman of the Wolverine -Bolovoyuz Andrei Sitsko calls the norm on the exclusion of Art. 20.25 Administrative Code of the Russian Federation « More relevant for hunters. » According to him, a person may not pay a fine in time due to being on a business trip, « a long departure or lack of information about the violation. » “Having received information, a citizen later pays for a double fine and seems to be clean before the law. But the article provides for arrest – and goodbye, weapons, ”Mr. Sitsko explains, clarifying that there are many examples of deprivation of licenses for this reason. “The initiative of deputies can only be supported,” he adds.

Alexander Voronov