Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation in interaction with the Ministry of Internal Affairs of RO …

The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, in cooperation with the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia and the Russian Guard, suppressed criminal activities of 85 residents from 21 subjects of the country involved in the restoration of combat properties of civilian weapons in underground workshops and their sales.

In November 2021 in Moscow, the republics of Buryatia, Mordovia, the Udmurt and Chuvash republics, the Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk and Khabarovsk Territory, the Arkhangelsk, Belgorod, Vladimir, Volgograd, Irkutsk, Kemerovo, Lipetsk, Murmansk, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Omsk , Orenburg, Ryazan, Samara, Sverdlovsk, Smolensk, Tomsk, Tyumen, Ulyanovsk, Chelyabinsk and Yaroslavl regions at the addresses of the residence of illegal gunsmiths, operational-searching events and investigative actions were carried out.

As a result, 353 units of firearms of domestic and foreign production were seized from illegal turnover: 6 machine guns (RPK, DP-27, MO-42), 23 machine guns (AK-103, AKM, AKM -47 ”,“ AKS-74U ”,“ AKMS ”), 18 submachine guns (“ PP111 ”,“ PPS ”,“ VZ-26 ”,“ MP-40 ”,“ MG-42 ”,“ Cedar ”) , 224 pistols and revolvers (“PM”, “TT”, “PMM”, “Thunderstorm”, “Jorge”, “Margolina”, “Terminator”, “Stalker”, “Luger”, “Reck”, “Agent”, “Agent”, “ “ROHM”, “GLOCK”, “WALTER”, “MAUSER”, “RETAY”, “REC”, “Taurus”, “Grand Power”, “Smage”, “Smith & Wesson”, “Nagan”), 104 carbines, rifles and guns (“Mosina”, “SVD”, “Saiga”, “Toz”, “SCS”, “Vepr”, “Izh,” “SVT”, “Tiger”, “Vepr”, “Vepesh”, “Hatsan” , “Mauser K-98”), as well as 10 artillery ammunition, 14 anti-personnel mines, 30 hand grenades (“F-1”, “RGD-5”, “RG-33”, “YAGD”), more than 11,000 cartridges of various caliber, about 30 kg of explosives (gunpowder, TNT), the main parts and components of weapons, 12 devices for silent shooting.

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17 underground workshops for the modernization of weapons and the manufacture of ammunition were liquidated.
The criminal activity of the “Preferevikiks” will be qualified in accordance with changes to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, which have entered into force on July 12, T.G. and reinforcing liability under Articles 222, 223 of the Criminal Code of Russia.
Work on the identification and suppression of unlawful activities related to illegal manufacture, alteration and sales of lesions continues

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