Mar'yan G.V., Kursaev A.V. The exercise of the right to weapons collecting by citizens

Abstract: The study considers administrative and legal procedures of the exercise of the right to purchase weapons for collecting by the citizens of the Russian Federation. The authors pay special attention to the allocation of functions between the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Federal National Guard Troops Service of the Russian Federation in weapons control. The authors analyze the provisions of the Russian legislation about the types of weapons which can be collected. Special attention is given to the licensing in weapons turnover. The authors substantiate the necessity to increase the quality of legal regulation of relations in the sphere of weapons collecting. The authors suggest improving the weapons turnover mechanism in general. The research methodology is based on the recent achievements in epistemology. The authors apply general philosophical and theoretical methods (dialectics, the system method, analysis, synthesis, analogy, deduction, observation and modeling), traditional methods of jurisprudence (formal logical) and the methods of specific sociological studies (statistical, expert assessments, etc.). The authors conclude that at the present time, the rules of weapons collecting are governed by the Federal Law “On weapons”; this law establishes administrative regime of weapons turnover. In addition, the legislator establishes only the peculiarities of this legal regime, conditioned by the purposes of collecting. At the same time, ancient weapons collecting if prohibited in some countries. 

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