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The issue of moving arms across the borderan individual is not an idle person. It requires knowledge and fulfillment of normative legal acts that regulate such an order. The fundamental document is the Federal Law of 13.12.1996 No. 150-FZ "On Arms" (as amended on July 21, 2014) (hereinafter - the Law).

It is necessary to make a reservation at once that the speech in the articleis exclusively about civilian weapons, since other types of weapons an individual on his own initiative can not move. According to Article 3 of the Law, civil weapons include: self-defense weapons (this includes gas weapons, including gas cartridges, and traumatic and electric shock weapons); sports weapons; hunting weapons; signal weapons; cold bladed weapons intended for carrying with the Cossack form, as well as with national costumes of the peoples of the Russian Federation; weapons used for cultural and educational purposes.

Next, you need to know that civilian weaponsrefers to special types of goods with respect to which prohibitions and restrictions apply when they are moved across the customs border. That is, there are weapons and ammunition that are forbidden to be transported across the border (for example, civilian firearms, which allow fire in queues, all sorts of shurikens, boomerangs, etc.), but there are those that are limited to movement. This information can be obtained from the Unified list of goods to which prohibitions and restrictions apply ... approved by the Decision of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission of 16.08.2012 No. 134 "On regulatory legal acts in the field of non-tariff regulation" or to be found at any nearest customs authority.

Civilian weapons, its parts and ammunition,limited to movement, can be transported across the border if the law is complied with and if there is a special permit from the MOI of Russia. I repeat, this is not a license for the right to purchase, store, carry weapons, namely the permission of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia to the right to move arms across the customs border of the Customs Union. Such permission is issued in the structural subdivision of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia - the Main Directorate for Ensuring the Protection of Public Order and Coordination of Interaction with the Executive Authorities of the Subjects of the Russian Federation. The office is located at the address: Moscow, ul. Zhitnaya, 16, phone +7 (495) 667-54-14. For consultation, you can apply to the subdivision of the "permit system" of the Ministry of Internal Affairs at your place of residence.

There are differences in the rules for the movement of arms through the cordon for Russians and foreigners (stateless persons).

So, as for the citizens of Russia. Article 17 of the Law applies. A person has the right to take his own civilian weapons from Russia if:

- licenses for the right to purchase, store, carry weapons (if such a license is provided);

- the permission of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the right to export weapons.

When passing customs control atthe Russian border must present the above documents, the weapons themselves, as well as a completed passenger customs declaration. But you must remember that it is half the battle to remove weapons. It still needs to be imported into the country of your destination. And there can be their own orders, their limitations, their permits.

It's the same if you, a citizen of Russia, are legallyfor example, a gas pistol abroad and you want to import it into the Russian Federation, you need to issue all necessary permits in the host country (if at all possible), present everything to the border customs, transport this weapon across the border, and then face problems with it importing into Russia. Probably there will be questions about the need for certification of weapons, again the permission of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia to import weapons into the country will be required. If the weapon will have signs of cultural value, then it will take more permits from the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. Thus, in any case, the weapon will have to be left in the custody at the border customs and take up a long bureaucratic occupation - drawing up the necessary documents. And to return for arms to the border. Think, you need such problems ?!

With foreigners - even more difficult. According to article 14 of the Law, only three cases are provided for them under which one can bring weapons to Russia:

1. To participate in sports competitions, if there is an invitation to the competition and the very permission of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. This is a sporting weapon.

2. To participate in hunting on the basis of a relevant agreement with the hunting farm, with the permission of the Ministry of the Interior of Russia. Here we are talking about hunting weapons.

3. For participation in various cultural events or exhibitions, a weapon of cultural value - with the permission of the Ministry of the Interior of Russia and the Ministry of Culture.

No other cases are considered.

At the same time, a foreign citizen has the rightto acquire in the territory of Russia civilian weapons for its export from the country. But for this you need a license issued by law enforcement bodies on the basis of a petition of the diplomatic mission of the relevant foreign state. In this case the person is obliged to remove the weapon not later than ten days from the date of its acquisition.

You can, of course, buy in Russia certain types of weapons without a license (for example, a gas can, an electric gun or pneumatic weapons), but for their export it will again require permission from the Russian Ministry of the Interior.

Remember! Any weapon moved across the customs border is subject to a written declaration to the customs authority at the border by filling in the passenger customs declaration.

The material is relevant as of September 2014.