In the Zemetchinsky district, a local resident found an illegally converted gun

In the Zemetchinsky district of the Penza region, police found in the house of a 63-year-old local resident illegally converted firearms. The man now faces criminal liability.

According to the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs, police officers received operational information, after which they searched the house of a man born in 1963. During the inspection, law enforcement officers found and seized a smoothbore gun, the barrel of which was illegally converted into rifled weapons.

According to the man, back in 2002, he found his brother a piece of rifled weapons and left it to himself. Years later, in 2023, a local resident found a 16-millimeter-caliber hunting rifle in the forest and decided to change its design on his own.

To do this, he sawed off part of the barrel and installed a previously found cone tube designed for a 7.62 mm cartridge.

On the fact of the incident, criminal cases were initiated under part 1 of Article 222 and part 1 of Article 223 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, providing for liability for illegal trafficking and manufacture of weapons.

According to police, the man can face up to six years in prison.