Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Arms Trafficking

Abstract

The article deals with general analysis of the modern state of ensuring rights of Ukrainian citizens by law enforcement authorities in the sphere of firearms turnover and questions of establishment, perspectives of development The Firearms Act of Ukraine. There are deep social, economic and political transformations in Ukraine nowadays. It is necessary to declare, that progressive processes of construction of the legal democratic state, except the positive ones, have unavoidable adverse effects. So, the number of persons and refugees who have no means of subsistence and constant residences has increased. Accordingly number of crimes has increased, the activity of law enforcement structures have become lower, and they have no means to provide complete protection for private, municipal, state ownership, the rights of the person, as the freedom, honor and dignity of an individual from illegal acts.

Society and Weapons: Civil Law, Criminal Law, and Historiographical Aspects

“…Summarized findings of our experimental, sociological and historiographical studies [4,5,6], statistics from the government institutions, legislative, executive and judicial authorities indicate that the complexity of addressing this problem is further exacerbated by the lack in Ukraine of a clear and efficient mechanism of legislative support for the circulation of firearms, at the same time being characterized by manifestations of latent illicit trafficking in these weapons as a real threat to rights and freedoms of man, society and the State [5, 7, 8, 9, 10].…”

“…Between 1992 and 1999, more than 1,491 firearms were stolen in Ukraine. 8,952 crimes were committed with these weapons throughout Ukraine in 1992-1999 [4]. In 2002, police officers in the Rivne Oblast detained a group of gangsters whose hiding place was a storage for a machine gun, pistols with silencers, hand grenades, sawn-off hunting shotguns, ammunition, masks, shackles, poison ampoules.…”