Penalties for manufacturing, storing, transporting and using hunting guns and primitive weapons

Article 306Penal Code 2015 (amended and supplemented in 2017)prescribes the crime of illegally manufacturing, storing, transporting, using, trading or appropriating hunting guns, primitive weapons, sports weapons or support tools, as follows:

1. Anyone who illegally manufactures, stores, transports, uses, trades or appropriates hunting guns, primitive weapons, sports weapons, other weapons with similar features and effects to hunting guns, sports weapons or support tools but has been administratively sanctioned for one of the acts specified in this Article or has been convicted of this crime, has not had his/her criminal record expunged and commits another violation, shall be sentenced to imprisonment from 03 months to 02 years.

2. Committing a crime in one of the following cases shall be punishable by imprisonment from 01 year to 05 years:

a) Organized;

b) Illegal items in large quantities;

c) Transport and trade across borders;

d) Causing death;

d) Causing injury or damage to the health of another person with a bodily injury rate of 61% or more;

e) Causing injury or damage to the health of 02 or more people, with the total body injury rate of these people from 61% to 121%;

g) Causing property damage from VND 100,000,000 to under VND 500,000,000;

h) Dangerous recidivism.

3. Committing a crime in one of the following cases shall be punishable by imprisonment from 03 to 07 years:

a) The illegal items are in very large or exceptionally large quantities;

b) Causing the death of two or more people;

c) Causing injury or damage to the health of 02 or more people, with the total body injury rate of these people being 122% or more;

d) Causing property damage of VND 500,000,000 or more.

4. The offender may also be fined from VND 10,000,000 to VND 50,000,000, placed under probation or banned from residence from 01 to 05 years".