Weapons Manufactured Not According to Standards but Causing High Lethality: Are They Considered Military Weapons?

Based on Point a Clause 1 Article 1 of the amended 2019 Law on Management and Use of Weapons, Explosive Materials, and Support Tools, military weapons include:

- Weapons manufactured, produced to ensure technical standards and design of a lawful manufacturer, equipped for the People's Armed Forces and other forces as stipulated by this Law to perform official duties, including:

+ Handguns: pistols, rifles, submachine guns, light machine guns, anti-tank guns, grenade launchers;

+ Light weapons: heavy machine guns, mortars, recoilless rifles, anti-aircraft machine guns, personal anti-tank missiles;

+ Heavy weapons: combat aircraft, armed helicopters, tanks, armored vehicles, warships, submarines, ground cannons, anti-aircraft artillery, missiles;

+ Bombs, mines, grenades, torpedoes, sea mines; ammunition used for the types of weapons specified in this point;

- Weapons manufactured either manually or industrially, not according to the technical standards and design of a lawful manufacturer, capable of causing injury, danger to human life, health, and destruction of material structures similar to the weapons stipulated in this point, not equipped for the People's Armed Forces and other forces as stipulated in Article 18 of this Law to perform official duties.

=> Thus, based on the above regulations, although the weapons are manufactured not according to the manufacturer's standards, if they have the capability to cause injury, danger to human life similar to the types of weapons mentioned above, they are still considered military weapons.

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