All unregistered weapons, if the caliber according to the law allows them to be registered with a citizen of Ukraine, should be accounted for, - Leonid Tymchenko
“In the context of war, the issue of the legalization of firearms is extremely relevant in Ukrainian society. After all, the number of weapons that are in our hands today is increasing every day,” Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Leonid Tymchenko said in the story of the Inter TV channel.
He noted that the authorities of the National Police work daily to detect illegal storage of weapons. Units of the State Border Service also detect possible facts of crossing the border with illegal weapons.
Leonid Tymchenko also commented on the draft law approved by the Cabinet of Ministers on amendments to the “Law on Ensuring the Participation of Civilians in the Defense of Ukraine” on improving the procedure for obtaining declarations of handling firearms: “In accordance with this bill, every citizen who has undeclared weapons, will have to declare such a weapon and enter it in the register of weapons. This is done in order for him to become a legal user of this unit of weapons. That is, according to this draft law, all unregistered weapons, if the caliber of such weapons according to the law allows them to be registered with a citizen of Ukraine, must be accounted for.”
Thus, since the beginning of Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine, civilians involved in repelling and deterring Russian armed aggression, at the legislative level, have received the right to use firearms for this purpose, which are not registered in the specified order. In this regard, there was a need to streamline the rules for handling weapons, as well as granting the right to civilians to declare available weapons.
The Deputy Minister noted that the procedure for declaring firearms, as well as the rules for their carrying, storage and transportation by civilians involved in repelling and deterring armed aggression of the Russian Federation, will be determined by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine and will be introduced after the adoption of the relevant changes to the law.
Department of Communications of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine
