Weapons on the streets will be more: why the Ministry of Internal Affairs issued 50,000 permits for "fire"
The MIA created by the electronic single registry of firearms contains information about the type of weapon and its owner. Over the past four months, nearly 50,000 permits for the purchase of combat weapons have been issued, OpenDatabot data shows. In the period from mid -June to the present, 57 272 applications were submitted, 87% of them have been approved. The only register of weapons was launched in Ukraine on June 23 this year.
It can create an e -cabinet and get a service without leaving home and without visiting the National Police. All documents are submitted through a single window of a citizen or in a weapon sales store. The weapon register is part of the information system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. The ministry is the sole owner of weapons and its owners, so it must protect them from accidental loss, destruction, illegal processing and access.
On the first day of the registry functioning, more than three thousand weapons were registered in it. The Ministry of Internal Affairs promises his integration into the action "Action" until November 2023. Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Leonid Tymchenko said that permission will be acting for three years. The procedure of registration of trophy weapons from the front is discussed by legislators and has not yet been found.
According to the chairman of the Association of Weapons Owners Georgy Uvkin, the Ministry of Internal Affairs Register is not related to the problem of spreading illegal firearms on the streets of Ukrainian cities. "The streets are equipped with unaccounted specimens, a lot of trophy weapons were formed in Ukraine. Black circulation in Ukraine has always been, and the register contains information provided officially," - explained Focus specialist.
Unaikin draws attention to the fact that the register has been launched to the adoption of a profile law, which defines the rules of its functioning. "Legislation does not provide for punishments for leakage from the weapon register in the event of break or deliberate sale by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of personal data of the owners.
There are also other negative examples when in temporarily occupied territories Russians and local collaborators-police officers used databases They were selected everything, " - said Unaikin. The corruption component when buying certificates for owning weapons, according to its observations, has increased multiple. The mechanism of control of weapons circulation in Ukraine is almost lost.
In order for him to be correct, a law that will reassure the demand of the population for short -barreled firearms should be passed, and the chairman of the Association has summarized. The only register of firearms of the Ministry of Internal Affairs works with failures. Sometimes the units are forced to wait long for the specimens they need, says MP Marian Zablotsky, the founder of the Ukrainian Arsenal of Liberty. "I have not heard about the mass corruption component in the work.
A few minutes after a failure, "the politician comments. In wartime, weapons are simplified and permits without problems, says the People's Deputy. "The weapons control mechanisms were suspended. After the start of a full -scale war, there were strong simplification and, of course, we needed to do so," Zablotsky summed up. Focus wrote earlier that the United States for the first time was handed over to Ukraine with confiscated small arms in early August 2023.