The National Police stopped the operation of an online gun shop run by a 47-year-old man with his son. To make their work easier and bring their business to the level of the country, the accomplices found four more henchmen, according to the National Police..

The investigation found that the attackers kept weapons not only at home, in their cars and garages, but also equipped a warehouse in the yard of neighbors who had not lived there for a long time. During the searches, law enforcement officers found and seized a hand-held anti-tank flamethrower, machine guns, automatic weapons, grenade launchers, rifles with optical sights, grenades, knives, guns, knives, thousands of rounds of ammunition, components for weapons, as well as money obtained by criminal means.

The men have already managed to sell a heavy machine gun, more than one and a half thousand rounds of ammunition, AKMS-74 assault rifles, anti-tank and underbarrel grenade launchers, F-1 grenades. They sent weapons to customers by mail..

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So far, all defendants face up to seven years in prison for illegal handling of weapons, ammunition or explosives (h. 1 st. 263 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).

Recall that earlier the EU announced that there were no large-scale cases of illicit trafficking in small arms in connection with the war unleashed by Russia against Ukraine..