Chapter 1679 They have someone with a gun
After hearing what Xiao Peng said, Desarev stood up and said to the four young men, "Get out of here quickly and don't get yourself into trouble!"
"Who the hell are you talking about?"
"We're looking for trouble? You don't know who you're messing with!"
"It's ridiculous, stupidly ridiculous!"
"Ignorance is fearless...hiss!"
Their words stopped mid-sentence.
Desarev didn't waste any time talking to them. He lifted up his suit and revealed the holster inside. The black gun handle appeared in front of the young people.
"Hiss." Several people gasped in unison: "Playing sports?"
In Russia, "playing sports" means being involved in gangs.
The origin of this name can be traced back to 1980.
That year Moscow hosted the Olympic Games, and a serious problem was discovered:
That year, the Soviet Union was at the peak of its power, but its strength was severely limited. While it could produce aircraft, tanks, and artillery, it couldn't produce a single piece of quality sportswear. The Soviet government purchased Adidas sportswear, but with the stipulation that it couldn't print the Adidas logo, only the three white stripes. From then on, Adidas became an overnight sensation throughout the Soviet Union.
However, at the time, the Soviet Union was a planned economy, making Adidas unavailable to ordinary people. Only athletes traveling abroad could obtain them, then bring these items to gangs and sell them on the black market. Wearing Adidas essentially became a symbol of gang status, signifying wealth and status. It's no exaggeration to say that wearing Adidas in the Soviet Union was like driving a sports car today. Even today, many Russian brides and grooms wear Adidas at their weddings, and squatting and cracking sunflower seeds and littering the shells has become a hallmark of Russian gangs. After the Soviet Union's collapse, many professional athletes joined gangs (such as Ivankov, the wrestling coach of the Great Emperor), and "sports players" became another name for gangs.
Desarev snorted coldly: "Get lost, these are the people you can't afford to mess with!"
The young men looked at each other and quickly retreated.
Feodorovna had been sitting on the sofa over there, watching the situation here. Suddenly, she saw the four pretty boys she was keeping and ran back in panic.
"What's wrong with you?" Fyodorovna frowned. "What's wrong with you? You're embarrassing me!"
The blond young man with slicked-back hair said, "Ms. Feodorovna, those are 'sports players'!"
Feodorovna's frown deepened. "Do you have any brains? Look, an Oriental and a Frenchman, and you tell us they're playing sports?"
"Really? That short-haired guy has a gun!" A pretty boy with short black hair said hurriedly, "It's a pistol!"
"Hmm?" Feodorovna also frowned after hearing this.
In fact, Russia, like the United States, does not ban guns and allows civilians to own guns. Gun shops are common on the streets and the prices are not expensive. However, there are shootings every day in the United States, while in Russia, there are very few shootings.
This is also related to the gun management system in Russia.
In fact, Russians can buy guns as long as they are over 18 years old, but before buying a gun, they have to go to a special firearms school. After studying for a month and getting a diploma, they can go to the police station and a special department to apply for it. This department will start to check the diploma and conduct an assessment and then do a comprehensive physical examination. If you pass the physical examination, they will issue you a certificate and then you can buy a gun.
This whole set costs about 10,000 rubles, which is not very expensive, but it is a waste of time.
Even with the certificate, they can only purchase hunting rifles and shotguns. Only after five years, when there are no issues, can they purchase standard firearms, the kind used by the military. The online rumors that Russians are prohibited from purchasing handguns are simply hearsay.
The most critical reason why there are few gun crimes in Russia is because the control is too strict.
In the early years, Russia's gun control was actually very loose, until the North Ossetia hostage crisis in 2004. At that time, Russia's Alpha Special Forces and Vympel Special Forces jointly fought and had formulated a series of rescue plans to start the rescue. As a result, the hostages' families were worried that the military and police could not rescue their families, so they took out the firearms that had been hidden in their homes for many years and launched a violent attack on the kidnappers!
This reckless action directly resulted in the deaths of 335 hostages and the injuries of 958 others! Twenty-six children lost both their parents—all of whom participated in the school storming. Since then, the term "the world's three most suicidal acts" has been coined: serving as a hostage in Russia, trafficking drugs in China, and evading taxes in the United States.
The Russian soldiers can't really be blamed for this. Who wouldn't want to rescue the hostages in a situation like this? Who would kill both the hostages and the hostages? Ultimately, it was the hostages' families who messed around, and the Russian soldiers took the blame for these foolish men!
In fact, the Russian soldiers couldn't be blamed for the Moscow theater hostage crisis in 2002, in which 129 hostages died - it was a problem with the anesthetic gas...
It was from that time that Russia tightened its gun control: gun owners were required to have a dedicated gun cabinet at home, mounted in a fixed location. Furthermore, practice shooting required visits to designated shooting ranges, and only the legal owner of the gun could take it from home to the range. Anyone holding the gun without a valid gun certificate could be prepared for imprisonment. Purchases of ammunition required registration, as did the number of rounds fired at the range and the amount of ammunition stored at home. Firearms were prohibited anywhere except at shooting ranges and hunting grounds. While some outlying regions have relaxed regulations, they remained strictly enforced in Moscow. Furthermore, foreigners were not allowed to possess guns.
Strict management is the reason why shootings are rare in Russia.
Of course, in Russia, if you have a gun license, you can carry a gun on the street, but you cannot buy a pistol within five years of owning a gun. Therefore, there are only three types of people who can carry a pistol on the street: first, an old gunman; second, a soldier; third, a bodyguard with a gun.
However, there is another rule in Russia's gun control: it is okay to go out on the street with a legal gun license, but you must never show it to cause trouble to others. The fact that Desarev dared to take out his gun and show it to others so directly can only mean that he is either a very high-ranking security personnel, such as a leader's bodyguard who is not afraid of legal trouble, or he is a gang member and a desperado.
Desarev only has Xiao Peng and Fabian around him, one is Asian and the other is French, and both of them are very young. They don't look like senior executives or leaders at all.
Thinking of this, Feodorovna snorted coldly: "You're playing this trick on me? Give me your phone! I'm going to fight them today!"
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