When I was over in Moscow in late 2011 as an official observer of the Duma elections, I made my doomed trip to Nizhny Novgorod by train.
Part of the fun was waiting at the large railway station in Moscow, where we passed the time having a go with air-guns shooting miscellaneous targets on a small indoor rifle-range.
No-one seemed to care that these dangerous air-guns cleverly disguised as assault rifles were being loaded and fired immediately next to the toddlers bouncy castle in a public space.
Indeed, that seemed to be an advantage. Toddlers bounce, parents blaze away.
Russians are tough.
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