Moscow Police display confiscated small arms

Miles
by Miles

The Moscow Police Force has put on a display that has been hitting the internet recently, specifically with this excellent collection of photos on The Chive, a website I still have no clear idea about the purpose of despite being aware of them five years ago. The collection is situated in a room, somewhere in Moscow, and includes everything from percussion muzzleloading handguns, to modern day submachine guns. however the key date in all this, is that the collection compromises confiscations starting in 1949. So these aren’t firearms that were taken in the 1800s and are now on display, these are firearms taken since 1949. Whether or not some of them were actually used by criminals is another matter, as perhaps some of them were taken off their owners for bad registration papers, death, and all other possible non criminal causes. I think the heavy, water cooled machine guns interest me the most, in addition to all the homemade devices that are on display. The FBI Museum in Washington D.C. has a similar collection with 7,000 small arms, of all their confiscated small arms, some of which are on display, but I think the majority are locked away from the public.

The video below is not connected to the main stash of small arms on display, but is from a raid the Moscow police did in recent history, and it also showcases some interesting firearms as well.

Miles
Miles

Infantry Marine, based in the Midwest. Specifically interested in small arms history, development, and usage within the MENA region and Central Asia. To that end, I run Silah Report, a website dedicated to analyzing small arms history and news out of MENA and Central Asia.Please feel free to get in touch with me about something I can add to a post, an error I've made, or if you just want to talk guns. I can be reached at miles@tfb.tv

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  • Greg Greg on Apr 23, 2016

    How long before Obama says these guns came from American gun stores?

  • Laionidas Laionidas on Apr 29, 2016

    Never knew Moscow Police also raided vault-tech complexes.

    • Secundius Secundius on Apr 29, 2016

      @Laionidas Russian Gun Ownership is not as Liberal as Their Russian Constitution claim to be. Putin, is trying to STAY ALIVE. Why give the Russian People the Means of Shorting HIS Survival...

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