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Russia Amends Law on Firearm Possession for Self-Defense
Sputnik News ^ | 11-18-2014 | Sputnik News

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.


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KEYWORDS: banglist; ferguson; guncontrol; guns; russia
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To: DoughtyOne
As will I.

But in the case of our own communists I dont need more facts to know what they're about.

21 posted on 11/18/2014 11:45:43 AM PST by skeeter
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To: 1rudeboy

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.


22 posted on 11/18/2014 11:50:14 AM PST by skeeter
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To: skeeter

Thanks Skeeter. Take care...


23 posted on 11/18/2014 11:50:40 AM PST by DoughtyOne (The mid-term elections were perfect for him. Now Obama can really lead from behind.)
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To: skeeter

No, and in this one particular area it is ironic . . . glad you see it. A good number do not.


24 posted on 11/18/2014 11:51:53 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy
I’ve never understood this (your) line of reasoning: if what Russia does is ok because the USA does it, then the reverse is true—what the USA does is ok because Russia does it.

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.

25 posted on 11/18/2014 12:51:40 PM PST by LoneRangerMassachusetts (antine)
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To: LoneRangerMassachusetts

Apart from the fact that we didn’t make Serbia a State, you have a point.


26 posted on 11/18/2014 12:54:22 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: LoneRangerMassachusetts

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.


27 posted on 11/18/2014 1:58:53 PM PST by marktwain (The old media must die for the Republic to live. Long live the new media!)
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To: skeeter
“Russia, land of the free?”

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.

28 posted on 11/24/2014 12:32:45 AM PST by Grzegorz 246
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