“The whole point is that in Russia citizens are, in principle, deprived of the right to effective self-defense. Citizens are prohibited from having short-barreled rifled firearms for self-defense - simply put, pistols. But psychopaths, criminals, militants are allowed. That’s why they are all armed , who wants.
Naturally, they are armed with illegal guns, which are a dime a dozen on the black market (why do they need legal weapons if any investigator can easily identify the criminal using them?). True, in general, our militants are still armed legally, because they use the credentials of the security forces of one of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation. And the militants use not only crusts, but also these very weapons."