Last year, the police disarmed 788 citizens, according to the data officially announced to "Vijesta" by the Police Administration. She took 831 pieces of weapons from them, including bombs, submachine guns, revolvers, pistols, rifles...
The most guns confiscated from Montenegrin citizens were 202. There were eighty-two hunting rifles, 18 revolvers, the same number of automatic rifles, 19 carbines, 17 bombs, 13 M48 rifles, seven small-caliber, two machine guns and two semi-automatic rifles.
In the same period, 192 knives and 125 pistols were confiscated from citizens.
The fewest weapons were confiscated in May - 34, and 93 people were disarmed in November and December. According to police documents, it is written that the preventive activities of the police in controlling the implementation of the Law on Weapons, especially the ban on carrying firearms in public places, had a preventive effect on the stability of public order and peace.
The Criminal Code provides for severe punishments for the illegal possession of weapons and explosive substances, but there are few who are punished with the heaviest punishment for that crime. In Article 403 of that law, anyone who makes, sells, acquires, exchanges, carries or keeps firearms, ammunition or explosive substances without authorization is punished for three months.
A fine is provided for anyone who unauthorizedly holds, carries, manufactures, repairs, processes, sells, acquires, exchanges, transports or otherwise puts into circulation firearms, ammunition, explosive materials, explosive or gas weapons, the possession of which is prohibited for citizens imprisonment from six months to five years.
If it is a question of a larger quantity of weapons or means, or if it is a question of weapons or other means of great destructive power, the law says, imprisonment from one to eight years.
Most of the citizens of Podgorica were disarmed last year
Most of the people disarmed are from Podgorica, as 217 weapons were found and confiscated from them last year. Weapons were found with eighty-three people from Białystok, 69 from Nikšić and 61 from Baran. 58 people from Novalja, 53 from Beran, 41 from Tiv and 39 from Ulcinj, 31 from Budva and the same number from Pljevlja remained without weapons.
25 Mojkov residents, 19 Cetinje residents, 13 Rožaj residents and 10 Danilovgrad residents were also disarmed.
Citizens of other municipalities are less fond of weapons, or they hide them better from the police - in Kotor and Plav, weapons were taken from nine people each, in Andrijevica from eight, Kolašin and Šavnik from four each, and two residents of Žabljak and the same number were left without weapons. Pljužinjana.
Of the 425 confiscated firearms, only 164 citizens had a permit, and 261 were armed illegally.
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