President Vladimir Putin and National Guard

Russian gun: On April 14, President Vladimir Putin, announced the formation of a new National Guard, and declared one of its key fuctions would be to control firearms, according to The Moscow Times. We are creating the National Guard to limit the circulation of weapons in the country, he told the Russian people during his annual direct line national call-in show. For Russian gun owners, such a fear may be about to become a reality. What wasn’t clear was whether Putin was referring to guns legally owned by law-abiding Russians or to the stockpiles of illegal weapons flowing throughout Russia, fueled by the numerous wars on its borders. Despite the government apparent willingness to make concessions, statistics still show that many gun-owning Russians prefer to skirt the bureaucracy and keep their unregistered guns off the radar — for one reason or another. Russia has a short history of private gun ownership — it was rare during the Soviet era — but the country stillborn civil society has started to push for greater access to firearms. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.