It does bring to mind my youth and the salesman at the hardware store asking what I was buying .22 ammo for. I asked him what difference did it make? He stated if I had said a revolver or pistol he wasn't allowed to sell it to me.
Stupid laws, I'd say it never changes but that would be wrong. It always seems to get worse.
>Another kind of story about the Russian mafias is the direction of violence by the state agencies themselves. According to Handelman, “assumptions are widespread that the crime groups are not only protected, but also in some cases instructed by Government officials and the police” (1993, 32<
THE RED MAFIA: A LEGACY OF COMMUNISM
http://www.auburn.edu/~mitrege/FLRU2520/RedMafia.html