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58.2% of the deputies of the Servant of the People faction decided, according to the schedule of plenary sessions, to consider the draft law for the legalization of weapons at first reading with the possibility of sending the document for review.
The Servant of the People faction in Verkhovna Rada decided to support the draft law on the legalization of weapons at the first reading. This was announced on Telegram by a deputy of the faction, Alexander Kachura.
The Popular Deputy pointed out that a vote was held within the faction on the issue of considering the bill on the circulation of weapons. Two options were considered: not considering this bill at all, or presenting it for consideration in the room with the possibility of sending it for a second first reading.
“58.2% of the faction made the decision, according to the schedule of plenary sessions, to consider this bill at first reading with the possibility of sending the document for review,” said Kachura.
Last year, Verkhovna Rada Chairman Dmytro Razumkov said in an interview with Ukrainian News that the society is not fully prepared to legalize short-barreled weapons. The Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, Anton Gerashchenko, proposed taking the issue of the legalization of weapons to a referendum. The Ministry of the Interior and the National Police of Ukraine are categorically opposed to the circulation of short-barreled weapons.
In September 2020, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy responded to petition No. 22/053416-ep on the legislative regulation of the circulation of arms and said that he considered it premature to legalize it in the country.
The director of the Association of Gun Owners of Ukraine, Georgy Uchaikin, said in a comment to Ukraine on July 24, 2020 that in Ukraine the number of unreported firearms in the hands of the population exceeds 4.5 million. In his opinion, the official statistics of illegal arms trafficking in Ukraine is “a drop in the ocean.”
The Verkhovna Rada registered two bills on the circulation of weapons: №4335 “On the circulation of civilian firearms and ammunition for them”, the authors of which are a group of people’s deputies, and №4335-1 “On arms and civil ammunition. “by” Voice “people’s deputy Andrey Sharaskin, which the profile committee rejected.
Monastyrsky said that if the law on the circulation of weapons was adopted, Ukrainians would not be able to carry them with them. The document, he said, allows one to acquire ownership of the weapons, but to keep the house in a specially equipped place.
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