Enterprises that meet the conditions are allowed to participate in manufacturing and producing military weapons and sports weapons.
Consisting of 8 chapters and 75 articles, the Law stipulates the management and use of weapons, explosives, explosive precursors, and supporting tools; principles and responsibilities of agencies, organizations, and individuals in the management and use of weapons, explosives, explosive precursors, and supporting tools to protect national security, ensure social order and safety, protect human rights, civil rights, and serve socio-economic development.
Weapons are devices, means or combinations of devices, means manufactured and produced that are capable of causing damage, endangering human life and health, destroying material structures, including: military weapons, primitive weapons, sports weapons, hunting guns.
In particular, primitive weapons include swords, spears, lances, daggers, bayonets, knives, machetes, clubs, knuckledusters, maces, bows, crossbows, and darts in the list issued by the Minister of Public Security; highly lethal, sharp knives in the list issued by the Minister of Public Security and used for the purpose of committing crimes, causing disturbances, disturbing public order, or opposing agencies, organizations performing tasks, and people performing public duties.
However, highly lethal knives in the list issued by the Minister of Public Security, if used for the illegal purpose of infringing upon human life and health, will not be considered primitive weapons, but will become military weapons.
Research, manufacture, production, repair, export and import of weapons for national defense and security purposes shall comply with the provisions of the Law on National Defense Industry, Security and Industrial Mobilization and the provisions of the Law on Management and Use of Weapons, Explosives and Supporting Tools (amended).
Organizations and enterprises under the Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of National Defense are allowed to repair, trade, export and import military weapons and sports weapons. Other organizations and enterprises that meet the conditions are allowed to participate in the research, manufacture, production and repair of military weapons and sports weapons. The Government will provide detailed regulations on the trading, export and import of weapons, except for those serving national defense and security purposes.
This Law takes effect from January 1, 2025; except for the provisions in Articles 17, 32 and Clause 1, Article 49 of this Law which take effect from July 1, 2025 to unify the effective period of the Law on National Defense Industry, Security and Industrial Mobilization.
Knives with high lethality used for work and daily activities will be strictly managed.
Previously, presenting the Report on explanation, acceptance and revision of the draft Law on Management and Use of Weapons, Explosives and Support Tools (amended), Chairman of the National Defense and Security Committee Le Tan Toi said that, accepting the opinions of National Assembly Deputies, the National Assembly Standing Committee has directed the review and revision of the provisions on the interpretation of the term "weapon" in the direction of studying and inheriting the concepts of the current Law, while supplementing some general and specific contents of each type of weapon and combining many criteria (characteristics, functions, equipment objects and purposes of use) to suit the practice of law enforcement as Article 2 of the draft Law accepts and revises.
The Government draft proposes to add highly lethal knives to strengthen management and create a legal basis to prevent and stop illegal acts using highly lethal knives.
To ensure clarity, strictness, and conformity with the requirements of state management and crime prevention and control, based on the opinions of National Assembly deputies, the National Assembly Standing Committee directed the addition of Clause 6, Article 2 to explain the phrase "highly lethal knife".
Based on the explanation of the term “highly lethal knives”, the Standing Committee of the National Assembly proposed to stipulate 3 management regimes for “highly lethal knives” associated with the purpose of use.
Accordingly, the use of “highly lethal knives” for the purpose of labor, production, and daily life is not considered a weapon, but must be strictly managed and ensure safety, in order to prevent and stop the risk of using “highly lethal knives” for illegal purposes. The use of “highly lethal knives” for the purpose of committing crimes, causing disturbances, disturbing public order, or opposing agencies, organizations performing tasks, or people performing official duties is defined as a rudimentary weapon (Point b, Clause 4, Article 2). The use of “highly lethal knives” for the purpose of illegally infringing on human life and health is defined as a military weapon (Point d, Clause 2, Article 2).
With this regulation, the Chairman of the National Defense and Security Committee believes that acts involving highly lethal knives without motives or purposes as prescribed in Clause 2 or Clause 4, Article 2 of the Law will not be subject to administrative or criminal sanctions; only in cases where they are used for the purposes prescribed in Clause 2 or Clause 4, Article 2 will they be determined to be military weapons or primitive weapons.
To ensure consistency in law enforcement, the National Assembly Standing Committee has directed relevant agencies to review the provisions of the Penal Code related to rudimentary weapons and military weapons to issue unified documents guiding the application of regulations on criminal acts related to highly lethal knives when the Law comes into effect.
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