Russian Federal Law on
Electromagnetic Weapons
2005 update, please refer to:
http://mindjustice.org/russ9-05.htm#1
Correction,
this russian federal law "About Weapons"
was signed into law by V. Putin in
2001.
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This is a Russian federal law, see isbn number below, and it
establishes "the laws for the circulation of civilian and military
weapons" including the "use of radio-active radiations and biological
factors; -weapons and other objects, the affects of the operations of
which are based on the use of electro- magnetic, light, thermal,
infra-sonic or ultra-sonic radiations and which have [exiting ]
parameters, exceeding the magnitude of established governmental standards
of the Russian Federation and corresponding norms of Federal governmental
organs in the area of the health department,"
Here is the whole law thanks to Emilia Cherkova and her human rights
group in Russia. Translation by Ramon Ruelas.
Federal law "About Weapons" Cited in the edition of Federal Laws R.F.
from 21.07.98 [1998] No. 117-F3, from 31.07.98 ['98] No. 156-F3, from
17.12.98 ['98] No. 187-F3, from 19.11.99 ['99] No. 194-F3 and from
10.04.2000 ['00] No. 52-F3, from 26.07.01 ['01] No. 103-F3
Article 6. Essentially, establishing of the [laws for] the
circulation of civilian and military weapons
Within the territory of the Russian Federation is prohibited:
- the circulation of weapons, in a civilian and military capacity,
weapons: of fire-arms of long-barrels with a magazine capacity (rounds) of
more than 10 cartridges, having a barrel length, or a barrel length with
casing of less than 500 mm. and normal-length weapons less than 800 mm,
and also those having a construction which allow for making their lengths
less than 800 mm and with which is not lost the possibility of the
execution of firing [the weapons];
- of fire-arms weapon which has a shape in imitation of other
objects;
- of smooth-bore fire-arms weapons prepared for cartridges from
fire-arms weapons with sawed-off barrels;
- of bludgeons, knuckle-dusters, [*** ], boomerangs and other special
adaptions for use in the capacity of weapons, objects [pellets/ammunition]
and missile operation, with the exclusion of sporting [shells];
- cartridges with armour-piercing bullets, [flares/incendiaries],
explosives or tracer-bullets, and also cartridges with
[pellets/small-shot] [shells/ammunition] for gas pistols and
revolvers
- weapons and other objects, the affects of the operation of which are
based on the use of radio-active radiations and biological factors;
- weapons and other objects, the affects of the operations of which are
based on the use of electro- magnetic, light, thermal, infra-sonic or
ultra-sonic radiations and which have [exiting ] parameters, exceeding the
magnitude of established governmental standards of the Russian Federation
and corresponding norms of Federal governmental organs in the area of the
health department, and also any of these indicated weapons and objects
produced beyond the boundaries of the territory of the Russian
Federation;"
- gas weapons, ammunition, nerve-paralysing, poisonous, and also other
material not distributed for use by the Ministry of Health of the Russian
Federation, gas weapons with the capabilities of causing severe damage to
the health of any person who is located a distance greater than one
meter;
- weapons and cartridges for these, having technical characteristics not
in correspondence with the criminal-law requirements of the Minister of
Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, in agreement with the
Governmental committee of the Russian Federation for the standardization,
metrology and certification;
- barrel-less fire-arms weapons for self-defense, electro-shock
apparatus and spark [discharger] and which have [exiting ] parameters
exceeding the magnitude of established governmental standards of the
Russian Federation and corresponding to the norms of the Minister of
Health of the Russian Federation, and also any of these indicated types of
weapons and objects produced beyond the boundaries of the territory of the
Russian Federation;"
- the keeping of or the use of in a non-sporting situations, of objects
and sporting fire-arms weapons with sawed-off barrels, or of sporting
pneumatic weapons with a muzzle energy greater than 7.5 [Ddj] and a
calibre greater than 4.5 mm, and also of sporting [weapons with]
[condensed] breech- mechanism and missile weapons, with the exclusion of
the keeping of and use of bows and cross-bows for the conducting of
scientific-research and prophylactic [preventive] work connected with the
immobilization and injecting of subjects of the animal world;
- the setting up of, by civilian and military, of weapons adapted for
silent firing [aiming] (in firing facilities, ranges), and night vision
sights, with the exclusion of sights for hunting, the periodic use of
which are established by the Government of the Russian Federation, and
also their sale;
- sending [forwarding] of weapons [by post <?>];
- the carrying by a civilian of weapons when conducting meetings, street
marches, demonstrations, picketing and other mass, public measures.
- the carrying by a civilian, for the purpose of self-defense, of
long-barrel fire-arms weapons and condensed [shortened or sawed-off]
weapons with the exclusion of the cases of transporting or conveying the
indicated weapons;
- the sale, transfer, acquisition of weapons and cartridges [ammunition]
for them, carried out only for exporting in correspondence with technical
conditions of responding to the demands of a country-importer.
Translator's note: the [***] I could not find..
[Ddj] in 2) above --I think is joules (unit of work, energy), ---where
our "J" is transliterated as "dj", so that [Jim = Djym]
Also: "[exiting] parameters" --I don't know what this refers to as I am
not familiar with weapons, It may mean penetrating force through a
specific material of a specific width., ..not sure..
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