Abstract: The research object is the social relations in the sphere of gun control. The research subject is the federal legislation, regional laws and departmental regulations formalizing the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the National Guard Troops Service to collect illegal guns from the population on a remuneration basis. The purpose of the research is, based on the analysis of laws and law enforcement practice, to develop suggestions and recommendations aimed at the improvement of organization of the collection of illegal arms from the population on a remuneration basis. The research methodology is based on general scientific and specific research methods, such as the axiomatic, hypothetico-deductive, comparative-legal, historical-legal, system-structural, formal-logical, statistical and sociological methods. The authors consider the problems and carry out the critical analysis of the current state of the Russian legislation regulating the actions of law-enforcement (police) bodies aimed at the collection of illegal arms from the population on a remuneration basis. The authors carry out the historical and comparative-legal analysis of such activities in Russia and abroad; analyze regional laws aimed at the harmonization of social relations in the sphere under consideration; formulate the suggestions about the improvement of legal regulation of the collection of illegal guns from the population on a remuneration basis. The scientific novelty of the research consists in the fact that it is one of the first works published in the recent years offering the solution to legal and organizational problems faced by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the National Guard Troops Service during the collection of illegal arms, guns and other weapons from the population.