Vietnam: What are weapons, explosives and combat gears?

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Definition

Classification

1

"Weapon” is a piece or a combination of equipment that is meant to inflict damage or harm to human lives and health and destroy structures.

- Military weapons, hunting rifles, cold weapons, sporting weapons; and

- Other types of weapons with similar properties and effects.

2

“Military weapons” means weapons that are manufactured in conformity with technical standards and designs of legal producers and provided for the people's armed forces and other forces for conduction of their missions.

- Firearms including handguns, rifles, submachine guns (SMG), light machine guns (LMG), anti-tank rifles and grenade launchers;

- Light weapons including heavy machine guns (HMG), mortars, B-10 recoilless rifles, anti-aircraft guns and anti-tank missiles;

- Heavy weapons including fighter aircrafts, armed helicopters, tanks, armored fighting vehicles, warships, submarines, field artillery, anti-aircraft artillery, missiles;

- Bombs, mines, grenades, torpedoes, naval mines; ammunition used for the weapons specified above.

3

"Hunting guns” means guns that are manufactured in non-industrial and industrial manners and used for hunting

- Firearms, air guns; and

- Ammunition used for these guns.

4

“Cold weapons” means weapons that have simple structures and operating principles and are manufactured in non-industrial and industrial manners

Daggers, swords, spears, bayonets, knives, scimitars, cones, steel knuckles, maces, bows, crossbows, darts.

5

"Sporting weapons” means weapons that are manufactured in non-industrial and industrial manners and used for sport training and competitions.

- Air rifles, rifles using exploding bullets, air handguns, handguns using exploding bullets, sporting guns using paintballs, skeet guns and ammunition used for these weapons;

- The cold weapons used for sport training and competitions.

6

“Weapons with similar properties and effects” means weapons that are manufactured in non-industrial and industrial manners but fail to comply with technical standards and designs of legal producers and cause harm to human lives and health and structures similar to military weapons, hunting guns, cold weapons and sporting weapons.

7

“Explosive” means a product causing quick and strong chemical reactions that spread heat, produce gases, generate light and cause explosions due to impacts of the initial stimulus.

- Dynamite which means chemicals or compounds used for creating explosive reaction due to impacts of the initial stimulus;

- Explosive accessories including detonators, detonating wires, slow-burning wires, explosive-containing articles providing the initial stimulus which burst explosives or specialized equipment containing explosives.

8

“Military explosives” means explosives used for national defense and security.

9

“Industrial explosives” means explosives used for economic and civil purposes.

10

“Explosives precursors” means dangerous chemicals directly used for producing explosives.

11

“Combat gear” means equipment or military animals used for carrying out missions and providing protection, which aims to reduce and prevent the violators from resisting or running away, protect law enforcement officials, people performing protection missions or giving signals of emergency.

- Stun guns, guns shooting asphyxiant gas, guns shooting poisons, tranquiliser guns, coilguns, net guns; rope launchers; guns using plastic bullets, guns using exploding bullets, guns using rubber bullets, tear gas, flares, tracers and ammunition used for these types of guns;

- Devices used for spraying tear gas, asphyxiant gas, poisons, anesthetics or itching powder

- Smoke grenades, tear gas grenades

- Stun batons, rubber batons, metal batons; figure-8 handcuffs, spike-boards, barbed wires; armors; electric gloves, knife gloves; shields, bulletproof helmets; sonic weapons;

- Military animals which are animals trained and used for protecting national security and ensuring social order and safety;

- Devices with similar properties and effects which are equipment not manufactured in conformity with technical standards and designs of legal producers and have their properties and effects similar to the combat gears prescribed above.