The Russian National Guard listed medical contraindications for obtaining weapons

A weapons permit may be refused if there are medical contraindications, the list of which is approved by government decree.

The list of contraindications includes certain chronic and severe mental disorders, as well as eye diseases accompanied by significant visual impairment.

For disorders associated with the use of psychoactive substances, the possibility of removing the contraindication is provided for in stable remission for at least three years.

MOSCOW, October 3 - RIA Novosti. A weapons permit can be refused for certain chronic diseases, for example, some eye diseases, and mental disorders, including those caused by drug use, Pavel Ushakov, deputy head of the Center for Licensing and Permitting at the Moscow Region headquarters of the Russian Guard, told RIA Novosti.

Ushakov noted that a weapons permit may be refused if there are medical contraindications, the list of which is approved by government decree.

It includes certain chronic and severe mental disorders associated with the use of psychoactive substances, such as organic (including symptomatic), schizophrenia, schizotypal, delusional and affective disorders, neurotic, stress-related and somatoform disorders, as well as personality and behavioral disorders in adulthood.

“Certain eye diseases accompanied by significant visual impairment, for example, a decrease in visual acuity below 0.5 in the best eye and below 0.2 in the worst, visual acuity below 0.7 in one eye with no vision in the other, intolerance to correction (spectacles or contacts) with two eyes open, concentric narrowing of the field of view of each eye to 20 degrees or less,” he said.

Ushakov added that the list of contraindications also includes specific diseases, for example, some forms of cataracts, glaucoma, and optic nerve atrophy.