Weapons registry is being improved: changes have been made to the procedure for submitting documents for a permit to purchase weapons
Kyiv • UNN
The Government of Ukraine has adopted a resolution to accelerate the digitalization of the Unified State Register of Weapons to increase transparency and facilitate access to weapons permits and registration.
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has adopted a resolution aimed at ensuring the maintenance of the Unified State Register of Weapons. UNN reports with reference to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
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It is reported that the adoption of this resolution "will accelerate the process of digitalization and improve the transparency of the process of issuing documents for weapons, ammunition and special means."
The document proposes:
- to enable individuals, regardless of their place of residence, to apply for a permit to purchase weapons, ammunition, and special equipment through business entities licensed to carry out economic activities in the trade in non-military firearms and ammunition, cold steel, pneumatic weapons, and special equipment;
- to enable business entities to use the Unified Register of Weapons, which is one of the elements of the functional subsystems of the unified information system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, in particular, to scan and enter into the functional subsystem "Unified Register of Weapons" documents received from the applicant in paper form, as well as to send documents submitted in electronic form through the register;
- to allow business entities to enter into the Unified Register of Weapons (instead, to exclude the maintenance of record books by business entities) all manufactured, purchased weapons, ammunition, gas pistols, revolvers, domestically produced devices adapted for firing non-lethal rubber bullets and ammunition.
