"For" 300 people's deputies: Ukrainians can get the right to use weapons during the war (photo)

The draft law on improving the order of receiving, declaring and handling weapons was the first reading. He proposes to allow civilian citizens to store some firearms and ammunition. Ukrainians will legally store found weapons during the war. The Verkhovna Rada supported the corresponding bill in the first reading on March 20. This was reported on the website of the Verkhovna Rada.

According to the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Bohdan Drapytya, the bill was supported in the first reading by 300 deputies, "Against" - one. The Law on Amendments to the Law of Ukraine "On Ensuring the Participation of Civilians in Protection of Ukraine" On Improving the Procedure for Receiving, Declaration and Defense of Firearms No. 9538 proposes to allow a civilian to declare existing weapons and ammunition to it, to own and use them. Armed Forces during martial law.

Instead, the Ministry of Internal Affairs must establish the order of declaring weapons and ammunition to it. The project obliges to streamline the rules of wearing, storage and transportation of firearms and ammunition by civilians who are involved in the restraint of aggression of the Russian Federation or other countries, and the order of storage, accounting, sale and disposal of declared weapons. It is about: however, civilians who have declared weapons cannot pass it on to other people.

The weapons and ammunition belonging to the declaration are not to be declared: we will add that the Law No. 9538 was registered in the Verkhovna Rada on July 28, 2023. We will remind, in August 2023 in the Ministry of Internal Affairs stated that in Ukraine the number of citizens who own firearms through the war increased in Ukraine. In particular, illegal weapons were regularly identified by employees of the National Police, the State Border Service.