Legalization of captured weapons: the Rada is going to consider the relevant bill in a few days
Kyiv • UNN
The Verkhovna Rada may adopt a bill on the regulation of captured firearms. The document establishes the procedure for receiving, declaring and handling weapons by civilians during martial law.
In the coming days, the Verkhovna Rada may adopt in the second reading a bill that will regulate the issue of captured firearms, as well as establish the procedure for receiving, declaring and handling them. This is reported by UNN with reference to the draft agenda of the Verkhovna Rada meeting and the card of draft law No. 9538.
Details
According to the draft law, civilians who have found firearms, their main parts or ammunition for them must immediately notify the National Police of Ukraine about this and, within 24 hours, transfer them to law enforcement agencies in any convenient way for further delivery or declaration, or indicate their location for further seizure.
Firearms and ammunition found by civilians and declared may be used by civilians to repel and deter armed aggression of the Russian Federation or other states
It is not subject to declaration:
- rifled firearms of 12.7 mm or more caliber and ammunition for them;
- smoothbore firearms of greater than 23 mm caliber and ammunition;
- machine guns, grenade launchers, mortars, flamethrowers, man-portable air defense systems, barrel artillery systems and ammunition for them, and other weapons and ammunition that cannot be owned by civilians;
- firearms and ammunition to them, which is a means or instrument of a committed criminal offense;
- firearms with removed or illegally modified markings;
- firearms and ammunition assigned to military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, other military formations formed in accordance with the laws of Ukraine;
- ammunition is separate from firearms.
Firearms and ammunition for them that are not subject to declaration are seized in accordance with the established procedure by the National Police of Ukraine. Declared firearms and ammunition are in the possession and use of civilians during martial law
Civilians are required to hand over their firearms and unused ammunition to the National Police no later than 90 days after the termination or lifting of martial law in Ukraine.
The draft law also prescribes cases in which citizens will not be able to get the right to found and declared firearms.:
- firearms are not subject to declaration;
- firearms belong to another natural or legal person, including state property;
- firearms belong to the types of firearms that cannot be owned by an individual.
If the bill is adopted, civilians who have firearms and ammunition in their possession that are subject to declaration must apply to the National Police within one month to declare or hand them over.
recall
Last week, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky called on the Verkhovna Rada to meet immediately in the near future to consider the defense legislative package, namely, issues related, in particular, to the settlement of captured weapons, the citizenship of foreigners fighting in the Ukrainian legions and the deprivation of traitors of state awards.
