MOSCOW, November 27 - RAPSI. The Supreme Court has approved a bill which allows the liability to be increased for intentionally causing physical harm with a weapon, State Duma Committee on Security and Combating Corruption head Irina Yarovaya told journalists on Tuesday.

In mid-November, Yarovaya submitted amendments to the State Duma on the legislation increasing liability for using weapons while intoxicated, as well as raising the age for buying weapons from 18 to 21.

The Interior Ministry announced that the regulations for selling weapons to citizens should be toughened after Dmitry Vinogradov, who had been drinking for five days, opened fire from two semi-automatic shotguns at his colleagues while they were sitting at their desks. Five died during the attack, while a sixth died in hospital.

Yarovaya also stated that the necessary amendments were already being drafted.

She stressed that a number of negative trends had developed involving aggressive behavior in society soon after the law on the sale of weapons had been approved.

A bill has therefore been proposed which imposes a ban on intoxicated individuals carrying weapons and a ban on carrying weapons of limited destruction at educational and medical institutions, as well as at public eating places which sell alcohol.

In addition, the age at which a Russian citizen will be allowed to purchase smoothbore long-barreled guns, civil weapons of limited destruction, sporting and signal weapons, and cold weapons which are worn with national Russian costume or Cossack uniform, will be increased from 18 to 21 years.