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Today Max Popenker joins me again, this time to explain the state of guns laws today in Russia. This is part of continuing series I am doing about gun laws around the world. What is involved in owning a gun in different places? What about hand guns, machine guns, and large collections? Let’s find out…
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The guns are aircraft Degtyarevs (DA-2), and appear to not have the drums mounted when the photo was taken. Note the vane-type front sight, and the distinctive muzzle brakes.
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Yes, let me go traipsing through Siberia carrying 60 lbs of belt fed, water cooled, “hunting Carbine.” Thank you Russia, this is one area where laws are almost done right.
Loaded for Bear.
And random bandits.
And a price is quite a fortune. Not mentioning a 5-year requirement of owning a shotgun, before you could own such ‘carbine’.
What about antique gun collecting – and shooting – in Russia. Are there old guns available and does anybody enjoy using them? Also, how are guns – old guns especially – traded and sold?
Rules are pretty much the same. The only difference – you could collect unlimited number of firearms of that category. Long guns only, though.
About that magazine capacity and ways to go around it… I wonder where term Potemkin’s village came form. Meaning something else on surface than behind it 🙂
Also, public can go up to so far, but “accredited” shooters can have whatever suits to them. Like Mr. Popenker says: if you have Mercedes car, you can probably afford Mercedes guns…. Isn’t it definition of double standard?
For those who are not familiar with “Potemkin village”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potemkin_village
Yes, we get it, the propaganda village that isn’t actually a real place. And let’s put it this way: If a Russian can afford fancy cars and get around gun laws through loopholes or good connections, messing with him and/or his family/friends is asking for a “conveniently-timed accident” after a “Black Volga” visits your place.
Black Volga, or any Volga for that matter had become sought for collectors item in Central Europe an beyond. The are purportedly sound cars based on Opel Kapitan.
Darn, now I’m beginning to wonder how much people would pay to get one of them. I have seen lots of old Communist era compact cars used for street races, especially because of unusually high power-to-weight ratio. Those old rust-buckets can out-drift a new sports car on tightly curved narrow roads! I could be wrong.
“I could be wrong.”
Just get… the Virus!
https://jalopnik.com/collecting-the-bizarre-homemade-cars-of-russias-soviet-1834116835
@cherndog
… commie this, commie that (I wish anyone had a clue what they talk about) – is all worn BS.
Anyway, my own experience: the very worst car I ever owned (an I had 2 before I left) was (fanfares tradaaa) Dodge Omni. Total and absolute junk which could not hold candle to Trabant 🙂
Regarding Soviet/Russian car industry I could only say that:
https://weirdrussians.tumblr.com/post/180749996345/audi-q7-suv-vs-russian-niva
@daweo
Niva /Cossack or Ural (motorcycle) will go anywhere and for fraction of price than western junk.
When he mentioned the DP-27, one followup I would have liked to see was asking about caliber maximums (Can one own a 12.7x108mm “hunting carbine”?).
In theory – yes.
“Can one own a 12.7x108mm “hunting carbine”?”
No problem, for example civilian version of KSVK (bull-pup 12,7×108 repeating rifle):
https://pikabu.ru/story/slonoboy_dlya_rossii_ili_grazhdanskiy_variant_127mm_snayperskoy_vintovki_6v7_kord_5580543
“(…)caliber maximums(…)”
Caliber of rifled fire-arms must be below 20 mm.
Why use 12.7×108? In Russia we have 4 gauge shotgun: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KS-23
And you can buy it legaly but you can’t buy a .22 rifle…
SKS? Any left in Mother Russia?