Article 3. Main concepts

The following main concepts are used in this Law:

gas weapons — weapons intended for the temporary injury of a living target by using tear-producing or irritating substances;

short-barreled weapons — weapons with a barrel length not exceeding three hundred millimeters and a total length not exceeding six hundred millimeters;

pneumatic weapons — weapons intended for striking a target remotely with a projectile propelled by the force of a compressed, liquefied, or solidified gaseous substance;

signal weapons — weapons structurally intended only for giving light, smoke, or sound signals;

cold weapons — weapons intended for striking a target by means of human physical force during direct contact with the object to be injured;

objects that may be used as cold weapons — edged, cutting objects made industrially or manually (knives, awls, and other pointed stabbing, cutting objects), intended for use in professional, industrial, or sports activities, or for household purposes, as well as objects capable of causing injury when physical force is used (baseball bats, softball bats);

throwing weapons — weapons intended for striking a target remotely with a projectile, propelled by means of human physical force or a mechanical device;

ammunition — weapon items and projectiles intended for striking a living target or another target with weapons and containing explosive, gunpowder, throwing, pyrotechnic, or striking substances, or a combination thereof;

fireweapons — weapons intended for mechanical striking of a target at a distance by a projectile propelled by the force of gunpowder or another charge;

main parts of fireweapons — barrel, bolt, magazine (drum), frame, receiver;

weapons — devices and objects structurally intended for striking a living target or another target, or for giving signals. items certified as household and industrial items that are structurally similar to weapons, as well as sports projectiles that are structurally similar to weapons, do not constitute weapons;

circulation of weapons — the production, repair, sale, acquisition, registration, storage, carrying, transportation, collection, exhibition, use, seizure, destruction, import into the Republic of Uzbekistan and export from the Republic of Uzbekistan of weapons and their ammunition, main parts of fireweapons, as well as their transit through the territory of the Republic of Uzbekistan;