PROSECUTION AND PUNISHMENT FOR THE ILLEGAL PRODUCTION OF WEAPONS: HISTORICAL EXPERIENCE AND MODERN REALITIES Musaev Mirza Musaevich, PhD at law. <...> Position: associate professor at criminal law chair, deputy director. <...> Place of employment: Dagestan state university Hasavjurt branch. <...> Email: mirza-musaev@mail.ru Annotation: The proposed publication takes a brief historical review into the development of responsibility for the illegal production of weapons. <...> In a comparative analysis of the legal monuments the author notes the positive experience of the struggle against illegal circulation of weapons in general, as well as its production. <...> Based on the analysis of the current social and political situation the author offers some recommendations for improving the criminal responsibility for the illegal production of weapons. <...> The given article draws our attention to the imperfection of the existing sanctions of the presented Art. 223 of the Criminal Code and gives conclusion of the necessity for its revision. <...> The Code of criminal penalties and prison. - St. Petersburg., 1845. - S. 337. (In the Penal and Correctional criminal edition of 1866 and 1885 GG punishment for the crime mitigated: imprisonment for a term from two to four months imprisonment in the fortress for a period of eight months to 1 year and 4 months). 4. <...> The legislation of the first half of the XIX century / ed. OI Chistyakov. <...> The Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - Moscow: Publishing Legal People's Commissariat of the RSFSR, 1925. 8. <...> Commentary to the Criminal Code of the RSFSR, the I960 ed. MD Shargorodskii and NA Belyaev. - Leningrad: Leningrad University Publishing, 1962. 11. <...> Abdullatipov A.M The main directions of combating illicit arms trafficking in the Republic of Dagestan / / Legal Journal DSU. , 2011. <...> Nevskiy C. Weapon trafficking in Russia in the late XIX - early XX / / Criminal Law. 2001. <...> Analysis of the development of the criminal law on the responsibility for the illegal traffic of weapons, ammunition, explosives and explosive devices as a necessary condition for its further improvement / / Gaps in the Russian legislation in 2008. <...> Обращено внимание на несовершенство санкций действующей ст. 223 УК РФ и сделан вывод о необходимости их пересмотра! <...>