{"id":1333725,"date":"2022-02-23T17:23:17","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T22:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1333725"},"modified":"2022-02-23T17:23:22","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T22:23:22","slug":"ukraine-expands-civilian-gun-rights-to-fight-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ukraine-expands-civilian-gun-rights-to-fight-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine Expands Civilian Gun Rights to Fight Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fukraine-expands-civilian-gun-rights-to-fight-russia%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1333725&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Ukrainian-with-gun-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\"><span>The Ukrainian parliament, known as the <\/span><i><span>Verkhovna Rada, <\/span><\/i><span>on Wednesday passed a bill greatly expanding civilian access to firearms. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The authors of the bill <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/mobile\/world\/ukraine-mps-vote-to-allow-civilians-to-carry-firearms-amid-existing-threats-1.5792225\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span> these new gun rights were needed due to \u201cexisting threats and dangers for the citizens of Ukraine,\u201d sending a signal to invading Russian forces that they can expect stiff resistance should they push beyond the eastern Donbas region.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>Ukraine\u2019s state <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrinform.net\/rubric-defense\/3410346-verkhovna-rada-passes-bill-on-civilian-firearms-at-first-reading.html\"><span>Ukrinform<\/span><\/a><span> news service said the bill \u201cdefines the legal regime of ownership of civilian firearms, establishes the basic rights and responsibilities of individuals and legal entities for the production,\u201d and regulates \u201cacquisition, possession, alienation, carrying, transportation, repair, use of civilian firearms and ammunition.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe bill, while liberalizing the circulation of civilian firearms in Ukraine, also increases the responsibility for their illegal use,\u201d Ukrinform added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Ukraine\u2019s gun laws have been <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunpolicy.org\/firearms\/region\/cp\/ukraine\"><span>strictly enforced and poorly written<\/span><\/a><span> until now, with the net effect of convincing most Ukrainians that private gun ownership was not worth the effort, even though much of the public receives firearms training at school. Buying guns was not terribly difficult, but carrying them outside of the home was largely forbidden.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>The military has a huge inventory of firearms relative to its size, while only a modest percentage of the general public has been legally armed until now. Reliable data is hard to come by, but estimates place the rate of firearm ownership in Ukraine at somewhere between 6 and 13 guns per 100 citizens. In the United States, the ratio is close to 120 guns per 100 persons, meaning America has \u201cmore guns than people,\u201d as the media is <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2018\/06\/19\/there-are-more-guns-than-people-in-the-united-states-according-to-a-new-study-of-global-firearm-ownership\/\"><span>fond of observing<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Illegal arms trading has long been a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unodc.org\/unodc\/en\/firearms-protocol\/news\/2020\/Jan\/countering-illicit-firearms-trafficking-in-ukraine-through-criminal-law-and-criminal-procedure-law.html\"><span>problem<\/span><\/a><span> for Ukraine, especially in the eastern conflict zone. Quite a bit of that gun smuggling has been <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/11\/03\/world\/weapons-ukraine-russia.html\"><span>undertaken by Russia<\/span><\/a><span>, with the goal of funneling weapons to the eastern separatists it supports.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Even before the new, more liberalized gun law was passed, Ukrainians were rushing out to arm themselves against the Russian threat, as the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/23\/business-brisk-at-kyiv-gun-shops-as-ukrainians-rush-to-buy-arms\"><span>UK <\/span><i><span>Guardian<\/span><\/i><\/a> <span>observed on Wednesday:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span>\u201cOf course I\u2019m worried about the situation,\u201d Dariia Olexandrivna said, speaking in the basement Praporshyk gun store, in central Kyiv\u2019s Pushkin street. \u201cI\u2019m hoping for the best but preparing for everything.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Olexandrivna said she and her husband began taking shooting lessons six months ago, when tensions with Moscow grew. They owned two handguns. She had come to buy 400 rubber bullets. \u201cI saw Putin\u2019s speech on Monday. I think he\u2019s stupid enough to do it. He hates Ukrainian people,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>\u201cGun shops have sold out of some weapons, such as AR-10 and AR-15 assault rifles, with business now exceptionally busy,\u201d the\u00a0<em>Guardian\u00a0<\/em>observed.\u00a0<\/span><span>A military veteran told the <\/span><i><span>Guardian <\/span><\/i><span>he pooled money with his friends to buy a pair of sniper rifles with \u201cgood optics\u201d plus a drone they ordered through Amazon.com.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A Ukrainian police statement said ammunition sales are skyrocketing, and over 10,000 firearms have been registered so far in February alone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/ukraine-private-gun-ownership-russian-invasion\/31692882.html\"><span>Radio Free Europe<\/span><\/a><span> (RFE) noted interest in gun ownership picking up among Ukrainians last month, including a restaurant owner and Donbas war veteran named Leonid Ostaltsev, who offered free pizza to every customer who bought a gun.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI want to thank those citizens who, sensing the danger of the unpredictable movements of [Russia], make the right decisions and become owners of firearms. And don\u2019t forget the important thing! Without proper training, weapons are just a lot of metal and plastic \u2013 so go and train!\u201d Ostaltsev wrote on Facebook.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ukrainian parliament, known as the Verkhovna Rada, on Wednesday passed a bill greatly expanding civilian access to firearms. 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