In Russia the number of crimes committed with a registered firearm. This was announced in the Federal service of National guard troops, reports on Friday, June 10, “Interfax”.
“Despite existing legislative limitations of a preventive nature, the number of crimes committed with a registered weapon in 2015 compared to the previous year increased by a quarter,” — said in Regardie.
The Ministry informed that at the present time, legal gun owners in Russia are about 4.4 million people in their hands is 6.7 million barrels. “The total number of weapons in their possession, for the last two years has increased by almost 56 thousand units”, — noted in Regardie.
According to all-Russian public organization “gun rights”, based on the statistics of the Ministry of interior, in 2015, with the use of registered weapons was committed 589 crimes that is 0.013 percent of the number of gun owners and 0.009 percent of the number of weapons in the hands of citizens.
