Article 7. Service weapons

Service weapons include weapons intended for use by employees of legal entities when performing tasks for protecting the life and health of citizens, property, protection of nature and natural resources, valuable and dangerous goods, and special correspondence (hereinafter — legal entities with special service tasks), as well as by officials of state bodies for the purpose of ensuring personal security.

Service weapons must exclude firing bursts, have a magazine (drum) capacity of no more than ten rounds, a caliber of no more than twenty-five millimeters for smooth-bore and nine millimeters for short-barreled weapons with a rifled barrel with muzzle energy up to three hundred fifty joules.

The list of legal entities with special service tasks and officials of state bodies who have the right to store, carry, and use service weapons shall be established by the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan.