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  2. Firearm and Sword Possession Control Law - Wikipedia

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    Gun and sword control started in Japan as early as the late 16th century under Toyotomi Hideyoshi in order to disarm peasants and control uprisings. [2] Since then, control on guns became increasingly strict for civilians, leading to a number of revisions and new laws during the Meiji Restoration. [2]

  3. Overview of gun laws by nation - Wikipedia

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    Gun laws and policies, collectively referred to as firearms regulation or gun control, regulate the manufacture, sale, transfer, possession, modification, and use of small arms by civilians. [1] Laws of some countries may afford civilians a right to keep and bear arms , and have more liberal gun laws than neighboring jurisdictions.

  4. Why Japan owes its gun laws - and its lack of gun violence ...

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    CBS News looks at the major hoops private citizens in Japan must jump through to own a gun, and the surprising origins of the country's firearms restrictions. Why Japan owes its gun laws - and its ...

  5. Firearms of Japan - Wikipedia

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    Isolation did not decrease the production of guns in Japan—on the contrary, there is evidence of around 200 gunsmiths in Japan by the end of the Edo period. But the social life of firearms had changed: as the historian David L. Howell has argued, for many in Japanese society, the gun had become less a weapon than a farm implement for scaring ...

  6. What we know about the crude, homemade gun used in ... - AOL

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    A crude weapon of metal and wood parts was used to assassinate the former prime minister of Japan, which has some of the world's strictest gun laws. What we know about the crude, homemade gun used ...

  7. What travel warnings do other nations give their citizens ...

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    In the wake of the massacre, Australia passed stricter gun control laws that included “a near ban on all fully automatic or semiautomatic firearms,” according to Britannica online encyclopedia.

  8. Gun control - Wikipedia

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    In 1983, a cross-sectional study of all 50 U.S. states found that the six states with the strictest gun laws (according to the National Rifle Association of America) had suicide rates that were approximately 3/100,000 people lower than in other states, and that these states' suicide rates were 4/100,000 people lower than those of states with ...

  9. New gun laws rolling out in multiple states on Jan. 1, 2025 ...

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    California gun safety regulations going into effect Jan. 1. In September, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a series of laws aimed at strengthening gun safety regulations.Those include requiring ...