Sure, and even a 19th century bolt action rifle qualifies for that definition of “small arms”, as some poor Russian conscripts recently found out.
Are you voicing a differing opinion? You intention isn’t clear.
Hey! Some of those guns were fielded in WW1! Slaughtered Menshevik pigs, killed many nazi pigs!
Their ancestors died with those weapons in their hands! They should be honors to wield the Motherland’s history!