Database of Legislation

Terrorism
  • Offences

    • • Offences related to Terrorist Bombings
      • Offences related to Nuclear Terrorism and Nuclear material
  • Keywords

    • • Bomb / Improvised Explosive Device (IED) / Explosives
      • Nuclear Material / Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Terrorism / Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
Trafficking in firearms
  • Offences

    • • Illicit manufacturing
      • Illicit trafficking
  • Trafficking details

    • • Unauthorized import, export, acquisition, sale, delivery, movement or transfer of firearms, their parts or components or ammunition
  • Item Types

    • • firearms
      • ammunition
 Part Two - Chapter II
 Article 125, 127, 130, 136

UNTOC Articles

  • Organized Crime Convention

  • Trafficking in Persons Protocol

  • Smuggling of Migrants Protocol

  • Firearms Protocol

  • Any Article
     

    Original Text

    Article 125. Whoever illegally manufactures, trades, transports, mails, or stocks up guns, ammunition, or explosives is to be sentenced to not less than three years but not more than 10 years of fixed-termed imprisonment; or not less than 10 years of imprisonment, life imprisonment, or death if the consequences are serious.

    Whoever illegally manufactures, trades in, transports or stores poisonous or radioactive substances, infectious disease pathogens or other substances, thereby endangering public security, shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph.

    If a unit commits the crime in the preceding two paragraphs, the unit will be fined, and its direct person in charge and other persons in charge are to be punished according to the regulations in the first paragraph.


    Article 127.
    Whoever steals or forcibly seizes any guns, ammunition or explosives, or steals or forcibly seizes poisonous or radioactive substances, infectious disease pathogens or other substances, thereby endangering public security, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 3 years but not more than 10 years; if the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 10 years, life imprisonment or death.

    Whoever robs any guns, ammunition or explosives, or robs poisonous or radioactive substances, infectious disease pathogens or other substances, thereby endangering public security, or steals or forcibly seizes any guns, ammunition or explosives from State organs or members of the armed forces, the police or the people’s militia, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 10 years, life imprisonment or death.


    Article 130.
    Whoever illegally carries guns, ammunition, controlled knives and tools, articles of an explosive, combustible, radioactive, poisonous or corrosive nature into a public place or public transportation vehicle, thereby endangering public safety, is to be sentenced, when the circumstances are serious, to not more than three years of fixed-term imprisonment, detention, or control when the circumstances are serious.


    Article 136.
    Whoever violates the regulations on the control of articles of an explosive; combustible, radioactive, poisonous or corrosive nature, thereby giving rise to a major accident in the course of production, storage, transportation or use and causing serious consequences, is to be sentenced to not more than three years of fixed-term imprisonment or criminal detention; when the consequences are particularly serious, the sentence is to be not less than three years and not more than seven years of fixed-term imprisonment.