What’s a pneumatic gun? An air gun?
The Russian 44 breaktop revolver contract really was a huge part of the survival of Smith and Wesson as a company.
Russia’s a good example of gun control being a farce. You can go on youtube and see hundreds of videos of Russians pulling guns. Gun fights, car videos, hitman, etc. Just from what you see on the internet, it seems pretty common to have a gun there.
Smith and Wesson sold 131,000 of those fine single action revolvers to them.
The supreme court just let stand a ruling that all military like weapons can ban banned by a state. We had better gun rights under King George III than we do today.
He said that gun laws are also pretty much ignored and unenforced by Russian law enforcement. In fact they will often advise people who are having trouble with organized crime to "get a gun". Everybody knows that means the black market not "official channels".
A common ploy among liberals confronted with facts about Bolshevik brutality is to grudgingly acknowledge repression under the Communists, but then to say "At least they were an improvement over the Czars."
While it's true that 19th Century Russian Czars were autocrats, it's also true that as long as you didn't directly challenge their authority, they really didn't care how people lived their lives. This is in contrast to Bolsheviks, who wanted to control every aspect of your life and every thought in your head.
The fact that the Czars allowed their subjects to keep and bear arms while the Bolsheviks did not says a lot. What says even more is the fact that the Bolsheviks imprisoned and executed more civilians for "political crimes" in 1918 than the Czars had over the previous half-century of their rule.
Communism is so great that they have to disarm the people to prevent them from revolting.
‘’’’It was only a matter of time before Russia became an almost totally gun-free nation. Some people believed Russians would regain their right to own guns after the collapse of the Soviet Union but despite firearms becoming available on the black market during the 90s, the new government did not risk liberalizing the gun market.
Today, Russians can only legally buy smoothbore guns for hunting and sports, as well as pneumatic firearms for self-defense. Applying for a gun license also involves a pretty rigorous background check.’’’’
That’s basically not true. Since August 1953 you could buy any shotgun including semi-auto or a 22 caliber rifle without producing an ID in USSR. Guns were in abundance, you could by one in any hardware or sports shop. For a rifled gun you had to produce an ID and a hunting club membership.
At the same tume ‘respectable’ citizens could carry handguns under licence from local police chief.
More important, illegal weapon traffic was a federal crime in USSR butbthe maximal punishment was 2 years exile. That means the usual punishment was a fine or a month of probation.
Around 1959 there were changes and one was required to produce ID and a hunting club membership to buy any gun.
Actual gun registration started in 1974 and it required too much formalities specifically for a rifled gun owners prompting many to surrender it.
In fact the most dranonian anti-gun rules in modern Russia were implemented post-USSR in 1993 by Yeltsyn government. Handguns and rifles were nearly outlawed and for shotguns you were required to get a licence with months of background checks and other paperwork. To make things worse you had to renew the licence once in a few years.
Today the process is somehow easier and you can have rifle as well although many restriction remains.