Well, it has nothing to do with the guns, it is just a country of bureaucracy. It is not important what do you want to do, you have to get a two pieces of papers and in order to get them you need to get a two another pieces... and so on and on in geometric progression. And it is not as simple as to come and get, it is probably you will have to give a bribe to get them. There are billions of examples out there, even big corporations like Samsung are giving up to do a business in Russia. From recently: dirty.ru