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The Parliament of Ukraine has adopted a law on the right of citizens to own firearms in the first reading, the UNIAN news agency has reported.
The draft law proposes to develop the conditions and procedure for citizens and legal entities to obtain documents on the right to own firearms, including with the issuance of the necessary medical certificate and weapon owner’s certificate.
According to the draft law, the state will control the turnover of weapons by creating a unified state register of civilian firearms. It is also proposed to regulate the temporary importation of civilian firearms and ammunition to and from Ukraine.
The bill was submitted to the Parliament last May. It simultaneously liberalizes the circulation of civilian firearms and strengthens responsibility for its illegal use.
Today, in Ukraine, possession of weapons is regulated not by the Act of the Republican government, but by the order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to this document, a permit to use firearms is to be issued by police. To get it can be both public and private organizations, and adult citizens (from 18 year old are allowed to have pneumatic, cold steel and hunting weapons, from 21 years – smooth-bore long-barrelled weapons, from 25 years – rifled hunting). The basic conditions are no criminal record, no history of domestic violence or mental illness and the possession of a certificate of training in the use of weapons. Short-barreled rifled firearms are prohibited for civilian circulation. Traumatic weapons are permitted only to certain categories of citizens (judges, prosecutors, etc.).
On the one hand, this decision extends the civil rights of Ukrainians. On the other hand, it was made at absolutely the wrong time.
Firstly, the Ukrainian people are under enormous pressure at the moment. From the inside, due to the economic situation, which is worsening with each passing month. Externally – because of the political situation that has developed thanks to the “visionary” steps of the current government. Granting the right to use weapons virtually on the basis of a medical certificate is completely unsafe. The level of street crime in the country leaves much to be desired. Experts expect it to rise, especially against the backdrop of Ukrainians’ own sentiments.
Moreover, the adopted measures will obviously entail the introduction of legal duties for the purchase of weapons. As previously mentioned, the population is economically depleted. Overpaying for weapons is an unacceptable luxury for them. And the demand will be due to the work of anti-Russian propaganda. Thus, the Parliament deputies themselves have signed a law to open the “black market” of weapons and ammunition. EU countries will become the main channel of supply, both “legitimate” and “illegitimate”. Ukrainian customs and border guards, due to their corrupt nature, will only facilitate illicit trafficking.
Finally, one may ask a logical question: “Why motivate the adoption of the law by the imminent “invasion” of the Russian army using the most modern weapons and equipment?” This sounds very inadequate, as does Kiev’s policy in general.
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Bullshit. An armed society is a polite society. When an 80 grandmother can defend herself against a teenage hulk, that is a good thing. A case in point, in American cities where ordinary people are persecuted for having firearms, the number of murders is higher than that of all the free states. Where the scum who call themselves “government” are persecute people for carrying a meaningful self-defense, crime flourishes. If you depend on a cop to protect you, you are defenseless.
Hear hear!
Bullshit. An armed society is a poor society. When an 80 grandmother has to defend her self against a teenage hulk, there is something rotten to the core with such society. Proper respect is not gained by gun point force. So keep your American defense crap to your self or better to your side of the ocean.
I definitely cannot relate to be proud when my grandmother have to aim a gun to a teenager to not be an assault victim by a teenager, probably in your country if that happen it would barely make news since it happen so often, in my country it will be blown up–three (3) days news.
Dont compare this to USA, even this ukrainian one are more freedom than yours. This ukrainian law will let them armed with cheap fully automatic AK74, Ak47, M4, M16, etc which most US people only able to dream of. Lot of bandit in America armed with simple pistols rarely using fully auto gun like this guys other than hollywood. That grandmother never be able to defend herself with all that thug showering her house with that auto guns.
Its not the good gun freedom law if in ukrainian itself not hard to find fully auto rifle before the law. With this law it will be more chaos than what citizen need to protect their selves
welcome to the new afghanistan of europe. all you need now is the beard and the joke is now full time on you. the jihadis given citizenship in ukraine can now freely roam the streets with their AK47, aka pashtun style and show you how to swag. the clown in charge has played a brilliant joke on his own people.
Even the Taliban are on a higher civilizational level then the hooligans in American-controlled Ukraine. At least they don’t kill people for speaking a different language, don’t accept submission from Washington and Brussels and don’t jerk off to nazis.
“It beggars belief that a leader of a nation would ask his armed forces to bomb his own people out of their homes, indiscriminate of them being women and innocent children, in a freezing winter and then openly try to kill them as they fled, by attempting to carpet bomb the escape roads. These are tactics straight out of the fascist mind of another deranged maniac who left this world, helped on his way to hell by the Soviet army under Marshall Zhukov in 1945.”
Just be sure that no one who disagrees with government has one.
The writer has no clue about civil rights and the ownership of firearms. The new laws sound tyrannical and will lead right back to the conficsation of weapons. You people have no idea!