The article points out that the social need is not only the establishment of a criminal law prohibition, but the establishment of an incentive norm that determines the conditions for the release of a person from criminal liability in the fight against illegal handling of weapons as well. Since the concept of voluntary surrender of weapons is not legally defined in the norm provided for by part four of the Article 248 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan, opinions about this concept are still the cause of controversy in the legal literature and based on the presence of problems that arise when applying the rule under study in the practice of judicial investigation, each of the signs related to the concept of voluntary surrender of weapons is analyzed on the basis of the Criminal and Criminal Procedure legislation, the corresponding decision of the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Uzbekistan, in the future, scientifically based proposals and recommendations were developed that are important for the legal solution of this issue for criminal legislation to improve the criminal law norm on the release of a person who handed over a weapon voluntarily and for judicial investigative practice.

criminal law, weapons, social danger, voluntariness, criminal responsibility, acts of condo nation.