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traditionally gun ownership has a cultural overlap as far as i understand it with defending the nation with self defense and national defense having a certain amount of overlap and during the Tsarist era, military service and firearm ownership were often seen as intertwined, especially in rural areas. If modern Russian society sees an increase in the normalization of firearms in civilian hands, particularly in regions with more robust hunting or sports shooting traditions, it could be a similar shift. or atleast if it is to shift in the direction of increased self defense gun ownership then it would not be weird for this to overlap with ideas of national defense and personal duty to your nation

as for this culture of national defense and personal defense and military and personal duty to your nation and tzar in the russian empire this is not something separate or of its own origin it seems from what i know to have come from general ideas of weapon ownership in general and personal duty from prior to the arrival of guns in russia especially when it comes to polearms swords or war knives etc