If anyone remembers, before the State Duma elections, a ban was imposed on the sale of self-defense weapons. Prompted by plushev, Echo of Moscow (a Russian radio station) took an interest in the situation at the time, but the Moscow Main Internal Affairs Directorate said that they "had not issued any such recommendations". Now the presidential election is just around the corner. History is repeating itself. An announcement on the website of one of the major sellers of traumatic firearms: 14/01/08 - Attention, weapons buyers! Dear weapons buyers! Please note that in connection with the upcoming presidential election, from mid-February 2008 to mid-March 2008, the Ministry of Internal Affairs will likely suspend the issuance of licenses for the purchase of weapons, and sales of traumatic self-defense weapons in gun stores will also likely be suspended. http://armsgroup.ru/news.php?id=91 They should have made the ad not about cockroaches and flies, but about successors. That would at least partly justify the zeal of our valiant police.
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