"Employees of the Center for Internal Affairs Directorate for the North-Western Administrative District of Moscow for the City of Moscow, the Federal Security Service of Russia for Moscow and the Moscow Region and the Federal Security Service of Russia seized an arsenal of illegal weapons in one of the apartments in Nikulinskaya Street" , - said the spokesman for the Russian Interior Ministry in Moscow Yuri Titov.

It is noted that the police detained a previously convicted 45-year-old man. According to the detainee, he acquired weapons inoperative and reworked them in combat.

During the inspection, tools for the manufacture of weapons and ammunition, a TT pistol and 15 rounds for it were seized. There were also confiscated and sent for examination "items similar to a Kalashnikov assault rifle, a submachine gun" Kedr ", a gun of the" Nagan "system, objects similar to parts to a firearm, ammunition of various calibers about 600 pieces."

A criminal case was opened on the grounds of a crime under Art. 222 of the Criminal Code of Russia "Illegal acquisition, transfer, sale, storage, transportation or carrying of weapons, their main parts, ammunition."

Earlier it was reported that the FSB, together with the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, detained a group of underground arms dealers operating in 14 Russian regions.