Julia Ioffe: Putin just gave all Russians the right to carry a rifle anywhere
A Pro-Russian militant holds a Kalachnikov asssault rifle and smokes a cigarette in front of a tank taken from Ukrainian forces during fighting in August, as he and other fire their weapons in an open field, in the eastern Ukrainian town of Ilovaisk, some 40 kms east of Donetsk, on Nov. 18.
Today the Russian government changed its gun laws to allow citizens to carry rifles in public for the purpose of self-defense. Sound terrifying? It is.
