The World's Cold Weapon - Definition and Classification

What is a cold weapon in terms of law? What can be bought, stored and used by citizens, and what is not? What responsibility do the owners of cold steel have before the law? All these questions can be answered by considering the world's cold weapons.

What is a cold weapon category by definition?

Proceeding from the current legislation, cold steel is any object or device designed, according to the design features, to destroy the target as a result of the influence of the muscular strength of a person or the impulse of mechanical devices. Based on this definition, the world's cold weapons can be hand-held or propelled.

His vision of the definition of cold arms is available in judicial practice. So, the cold weapons of the world in this case is defined as objects that carry out cutting, pricking, piercing-cutting, crushing, chopping or impact effect. Here you can distinguish knives, stilettos, bagnets, daggers, checkers, brass knuckles, nunchuck, other items.

However, the above definitions are quite general, which does not allow us to fully determine whether a particular object is a cold weapon. Specific, clear signs of cold weapons can be found in special methods of forensic research.

What is not a cold steel?

Do not belong to the category of cold steel:

• Knives without a pointed point or when replacing them with objects with a rounded end;
• Knives, the point of which is located above the shoe, where the length of the blade is not more than 180 mm;
• Blades with a compliant plane and good deflection of the blade;
• Knives, whose shoes have a sharpened hook for ripping skins;
• Knives with a blade less than 10 cm;
• Stitch objects, the butt and blade of which converge at an angle of 70 degrees and higher;
• Piercing devices that are not capable of ensuring reliable retention of the handle upon impact;
• Knives without sharpened blade;
• Blades, the handle of which has a length of less than 7 cm.

Classification of cold arms according to purpose

Based on the designation, determine the civil and combat cold steel. If we talk about the category of civilian cold weapons, then there are objects that can be used by individuals for self-defense, hunting, sports, and products that are an integral part of national costumes and clothing of some nationalities. Thus, the civilian weapon of the world is conditionally divided into hunting, sports and national.

Combat Cold Weapons refers to a standard, designed to perform operational, service or combat tasks, militarized state structures. Special combat and military cold weapons are allocated here.

Classification of cold steel according to the method of manufacture

Based on the classification of cold weapons according to the manufacturing method, the following are distinguished:

1. Factory - corresponding to certain standards, technical production conditions and having a special gun marking.
2. Artisanal cold weapons of the world - produced by private craftsmen, according to certain standards, standards. Can contain a unique, recognizable stigma of the master.
3. Homemade weapons are manufactured by civilians who do not have an official permit to conduct such activities and do not have special professional skills.
4. The converted cold steel - knives, drafts, projectiles, other items, processed by removing or supplementing the original samples with individual elements.

Responsibility for the use of illegal cold steel

If there is available a cold weapon - a sword, a knife, a stylet or something else, then a special permit is required. In the absence of an official permit, citizens may be attracted to certain types of responsibility:

1. Administrative responsibility for the storage, purchase, transfer of cold steel to unauthorized persons without the knowledge of representatives of the internal affairs bodies. Fixation of the offense entails a fine in the minimum established amount with confiscation of items of cold weapons or without it.
2. The criminal liability for the manufacture, carrying, use, sale, modification or repair of knives, daggers, knuckwheels, other piercing, cutting, percussion, crushing objects without official permission. Violation is punishable by a fine in especially large amounts, by involvement in public works, by arrest or imprisonment, depending on the conditions and gravity of the crime.

What kind of cold arms does a citizen have the right to carry?

Persons who have received an official permit for cold steel in Russia have the right to purchase, carry and use the objects of the blade type. At the time of sale of such weapons, the seller enters an appropriate entry in the hunting membership card of a citizen.

A certain category of citizens can acquire the cold knives of Russia, which should serve as a part of the Cossack uniform, a national costume. The corresponding definitions of permitted attributes of ethnic dresses are prescribed in the legislation. However, the wearing, storage and even more so the use of such weapons also needs a license.

Proceeding from the foregoing, if a civilian is not a hunter, a Cossack or does not belong to the category of ethnic minorities, the outfit of which provides for carrying a knife, dagger or sabers, he has no right to have cold steel.