Experience in combating illicit arms trafficking in some foreign countries

Purpose of article - to study foreign legislation and the experience of its application in combating illicit arms trafficking. Comparative, formally legal, method of induction and deduction, method of legal forecasting, method of legal interpretation were used The article analyzes the legislation of the People's Republic of China, the USA, Japan and the CIS countries. Separate groups of foreign approaches to regulating the circulation of weapons, as well as certain methods of combating crimes committed with the use of weapons, as well as their illegal circulation, are singled out. The positive and negative aspects of the ongoing weapons policy, as well as the admissibility of the use of such approaches in domestic legislation, have been established. Illegal arms trafficking has always been one of the main problems of law enforcement agencies. Illegal acquisition, sale, as well as the subsequent commission of various more serious crimes with the help of weapons, is becoming more and more relevant in our modern society and is on the same level with the sale of narcotic drugs, as well as other crimes committed using the Internet.