The dissertation is devoted to a comprehensive scientific development of the administrative and legal framework for the circulation of firearms among civilians in Ukraine. The author presents an integral system of scientific views on the concept and essence of the object of administrative and legal support, the legal status of participants to these relations, and forms an optimal administrative model of firearms circulation among civilians in Ukraine, including with due regard to the positive experience of certain developed countries, as well as the specifics of such circulation under the legal regime of martial law.
In the course of a retrospective study of this issue, the author distinguishes four periods in the history of formation of the modern approach to the legal regulation of firearms circulation among civilians in modern Ukraine, taking into account the political and legal aspect.
Through the prism of ontological features of content defined in administrative, economic, civil, criminal and customs legislation, the author formulates the concept of "firearms circulation among civilians in Ukraine" as a set of public legal relations arising in the process of transfer of rights and obligations between civilians regarding transactions or other actions with regard to a certain object of weapons defined by law as capable of being within the scope of civil law relations and controlled by public authorities, with the aim of satisfying the public interest.
The author establishes that the peculiarity of the administrative and legal approach to the formulation of this concept is the State support, which is a set of measures aimed at protecting society from the undesirable consequences of such trafficking. With this in mind, the author proves the expediency of including the concept of "firearms trafficking among civilians" in the Draft Law of Ukraine "On the Right to Civilian Firearms".
The article substantiates the importance of characterizing the administrative and legal framework for firearms circulation among civilians through the prism of the category of administrative and legal support as the basis for the formation of a set of administrative and legal means for regulating relations in the field of such circulation, which is understood as the regulatory impact of administrative and legal provisions on the relations arising in the process of transfer of rights and obligations between civilians regarding transactions and other actions involving firearms (their parts, ammunition), with the use of the following methods.
Keywords: weapons, firearms, civilian, arms trafficking, participants of firearms trafficking, public authorities, administrative and legal status of citizens participating in civilian arms trafficking, optimal model of arms trafficking, civilian population, conditions of martial law, concept and essence of arms trafficking among civilians, administrative and legal support of arms trafficking, legal framework of arms trafficking.
