Posted on 11/18/2014 11:03:12 AM PST by tcrlaf
Russian legislation has been amended allowing citizens to carry lethal weapons for self-defense purposes.
Russia has updated its legislation to allow civilians to carry firearms for self-defense, according to an amended decree on lethal weapons that appeared Tuesday on the official database of Russian laws and legal documents.
The previous edition only allowed using licensed firearms on special occasions, such as hunting, sports events and shooting training courses. The new amendment says that firearms can also be carried "for self-defense purposes."
Until now, Russian laws permitted the civil population to carry two types of weapons: lethal ones such as shotguns and rifles for hunting and shooting sports, and so-called non-lethal trauma guns firing rubber bullets for personal protection only.
But in the case of our own communists I dont need more facts to know what they're about.
Look, I didn’t mean to offend you but I don’t think finding this news a tiny bit ironic makes me a Russophile or Putin lover.
Thanks Skeeter. Take care...
No, and in this one particular area it is ironic . . . glad you see it. A good number do not.
Never said it was ok. When someone complains about the offensive behavior of other countries, I simply point out we are doing it too. I think the worst was what the US and NATO did to Serbia. The Clinton war criminals go free without any complaint by the left all the while they are picking through east European counties charging nationalists with war crimes.
Apart from the fact that we didn’t make Serbia a State, you have a point.
Yes, Clinton willfully violated the NATO charter to do that. It proved that the only way a nation could be sure of sovereignty was to have nuclear weapons.
It absolutely showed that treaties are only pieces of paper.
LOL ! That's what FR’s Russia first club + FR’s KGB team wants you to believe. In fact they are just moving from total ban to some very limited access.
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