Paul
Goble
Staunton, October 20 – Operating on
the nearly universal principle of not letting any crisis go to waste, the
Russian Guard in the wake of the Kerch school shooting has proposed new
regulations requiring gun owners to notify officials where they are keeping
their guns if they take them on a trip of more than three days’ duration.
The measure, as posted on the official
site (regulation.gov.ru/projects#npa=85092),
imposes this requirement not only on Russian citizens but on foreigners who may
be bringing guns into the Russian Federation for hunting. It also proposes new
rules governing the transportation of weapons on domestic Russian flights.
The imposition of the new rules almost
certainly will require a further growth in the size of the Russian Guard, and
it will beyond doubt give the Russian government yet another way to bring
charges against Russians who may through negligence or otherwise fail to
register where they are keeping their guns while travelling.
And it puts the Russian Guard on a
collision course with gun manufacturers and distributors who have been pressing
for an easing of the rules to allow Russians to own as many as ten guns each (https://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2018/07/gun-manufacturer-wants-russians-to-be.html).
That is no small thing: According to
some estimates, there are as many as 25 million guns in private hands in the
Russian Federation today, many of which are not registered with the authorities
as required, a number that continues to grow rapidly (windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2017/01/80-percent-of-25-million-guns-now-in.html).
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