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Japan as a whole is largely uninterested in firearms: Graduating police officers most often choose judo and kendo over firearms training. The country's culture doesn't have a history of widespread gun ownership by citizens. Instead, historic influence have made weapons to be seen as "the mark of the rulers, not the ruled". [3]
The Japanese arms-export ban, known as the Three Arms Exports Ban, [1] was a de facto law that governed Japanese export of military hardware outside of the country. [2] The export ban was eased on 1 April 2014 by Shinzo Abe during his second term as prime minister.
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.
The Small Arms Survey 2017 [1] provides estimates of the total number of civilian-owned guns in a country. It then calculates the number per 100 people. This number for a country does not indicate the percentage of the population that owns guns, because single individuals can own multiple guns. See also Percent of households with guns by country.
The leader of a Japanese crime syndicate who was charged by U.S. authorities with trafficking nuclear materials from Myanmar pleaded guilty on Wednesday, the U.S. Justice Department said in a ...
OREBRO, Sweden (Reuters) -Sweden's right-wing government said on Friday it would seek to tighten gun laws in the wake of the country's deadliest mass shooting at an adult education centre where ...
LodeStar co-founder Gareth Glaser said he was inspired after hearing one too many stories about children shot while playing with an unattended gun. Smart guns finally arriving in U.S., seeking to ...
With few exceptions, [e] most countries in the world actually allow some form of civilian firearm ownership. [13] A 2011 survey of 28 countries over five continents [f] found that a major distinction between different national gun control regimes is whether civilian gun ownership is seen as a right or a privilege.