Moscow Police Seize Large Cache of ‘Black Market’ Weapons

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MOSCOW, February 26 (RIA Novosti) – Police has confiscated over 100 pieces of weaponry during a raid on an apartment in eastern Moscow owned by a suspected arms dealer.

“The seized arsenal included 24 Kalashnikov assault rifles, 34 Makarov handguns, 14 TT pistols, four Nagan revolvers, a Walther and a Parabellum pistols, three machine-guns, six rifles, a hand grenade and several fuses,” police said in a statement on Monday.

The suspect, a 40-year-old Muscovite whose identity has not been revealed, has set up a workshop in his apartment, repaired and modified old weapons and resold them on the “black market.”

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The threat of a mandatory eight-year prison sentence for weapons violations does not stop illicit arms dealers as the business is very lucrative, police officials complain.

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