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Buscemi, Francesco et al.. 2018 ‘Illicit Firearms Proliferation in the EU Periphery: the Case of Ukraine.’ Triggering Terror: Illicit gun markets and firearms acquisition of terrorist networks in Europe, p. 461. Brussels: Flemish Peace Institute. 17 April

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(…) Since the collapse of the Soviet Union there has been no primary law regulating the circulation of firearms in Ukraine's civilian sphere. This legal vacuum was filled with a main bylaw issued by the Ministry of the Interior and a series of other bylaws.(2)

One of the major loopholes in Ukraine's firearms control regime relates to the acquisition of firearms components. Until recently this remained completely unregulated.(3) In addition, permits for firearms can be easily forged, as was the case when a Chinese national in Odessa pretended to be a member of the Ukrainian armed forces in an attempt to access firearms.(4) Compounding these issues is the lack of central registries for civilian firearms at both the national and regional levels.(5)

2) Martyniuk, A. (2017), note 3: "The main relevant by-law—Interior Ministry Instruction No. 622—was promulgated on 21 August 1998; see Ukrainian Parliament (1998)."
3) The Ukrainian government proposed to amend the country's Criminal Code to criminalise the trafficking of these items in May 2017. SBU, http://www.sbu.gov.ua/sbu/control/en/publish/article?art_id=124510&cat_id=124353, consulted in June 2017, no longer available.
4) Dumskaya, September 4, 2015, "In Odessa a Chinese citizen pretended to be a member of the armed forces in order to obtain weapons", http://dumskaya.net/news/v-odesse-gragdanin-kitaya-prikinulsya-voennoslug-050009/.
5) Martyniuk, A. (2017).

ID: Q15367

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