MOSCOW, October 28. /TASS/. Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) apprehended more than 120 illegal gunsmiths in 39 Russian regions during a security operation in August and September this year, the FSB press service reported on Monday.

“The Federal Security Service of Russia, together with the Ministry of the Interior of Russia and the Russian National Guard, foiled the illegal activities of 124 citizens from 39 regions of the country, complicit in the illegal trade in arms and recovery of combat properties of civilian weapons in underground workshops and their sale,” the press service said in a statement.

FSB officers seized 333 firearms of domestic and foreign brands, more than 290 kg of explosives, 123 electric detonators and more than 633,000 cartridges of different calibers. They stopped the activity of 59 underground weapons workshops and seized machine guns, assault rifles, submachine guns, revolvers, rifles, rifles, rifles, grenade launchers, flame throwers and mortars, he added.

The FSB carried out its security operations in the residences of illegal gunsmiths in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Sevastopol, in the Donetsk People’s Republic, in the Altai Republic, in Buryatia, Ingushetia, Crimea, Yakutia, in North Ossetia, Tatarstan, Trans-Baikal, Primorye, Perm, Stavropol, Amur, Belgorod, Bryansk, Volgograd, Vologda, Voronezh, Zaporozhye, Irkutsk, Kaluga, Kemerovo, Kurgan, Moscow, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Orenburg, Penza , Pskov, Ryazan, Sakhalin, Smolensk, Tver, Tomsk, Tula, Ulyanovsk and Chelyabinsk regions, the statement said.

“Efforts to uncover and foil illegal activities related to illegal trade, production and processing of weapons continue,” the FSB press service said.