Post by oldhippy on Sept 2, 2018 15:04:24 GMT
Why doesn't the Chinese government give civilians the right to own guns?
I’m so surprised that so many people here talking about why doesn’t Chinese government allow civilians to own guns, while Chinese government does allow it.
Here is the picture of gun permit for civilians:
This is gun permit for hunters (along with hunting permit and hunter certificate):
The gun is under heavy regulation in China, in general, everywhere is gun-free zone, with some exceptions such as shooting range, hunting area, and some government offices and military zones.
And yes any civilian without criminal record can apply gun permit, but you need a good reason such as hunting or gun club membership, and you’ll need to be qualified to stash gun, otherwise you have to let someone qualified to keep you guns.
Of course gun models are very restricted, AR-15 is definitely off limits.
I’m going to add some background materials about guns in China.
There were a lot of guns held by civilians in China until 1996, before that, guns were not strictly controlled, and million of guns ran out of control in CR, some militia organizations even had this:
(56-AA Gun, Chinese copy of ZPU-4)
Yes I’m very sure about this as there was one just placed in a yard next to my school and we played with it everyday. I used to have two unused 14.5mm bullets as toys when I was a kid. They look like this, compare to 7.62mm one:
I’m still alive to write something here, how lucky…
The militia was encouraged and supported by government as they were always prepared for a war, against USSR or US.
China and US restored normal diplomatic relationship in 1979, and the China-Vietnam war indicated that USSR was weakened and unable to support their allies, there was no need to maintain so many militia organizations as the possibility of total war was too low. Most of them are dismissed in 80s, but guns stayed in civilians’ hands, and yes, include that AA gun.
In 80s, the dark side of the “reform and opening-up policy” emerged, the public security condition was deteriorated to a critical level, many terrible things extinct for decades came back such as gangs, prostitute, and drugs. People fought on the street everyday, some time they used guns to shoot each other. Then Chinese government started to take over guns. That AA gun was towed to a steel plant in 1987, that was the last time I saw it, fortunately it didn’t kill anyone
I’m so surprised that so many people here talking about why doesn’t Chinese government allow civilians to own guns, while Chinese government does allow it.
Here is the picture of gun permit for civilians:
This is gun permit for hunters (along with hunting permit and hunter certificate):
The gun is under heavy regulation in China, in general, everywhere is gun-free zone, with some exceptions such as shooting range, hunting area, and some government offices and military zones.
And yes any civilian without criminal record can apply gun permit, but you need a good reason such as hunting or gun club membership, and you’ll need to be qualified to stash gun, otherwise you have to let someone qualified to keep you guns.
Of course gun models are very restricted, AR-15 is definitely off limits.
I’m going to add some background materials about guns in China.
There were a lot of guns held by civilians in China until 1996, before that, guns were not strictly controlled, and million of guns ran out of control in CR, some militia organizations even had this:
(56-AA Gun, Chinese copy of ZPU-4)
Yes I’m very sure about this as there was one just placed in a yard next to my school and we played with it everyday. I used to have two unused 14.5mm bullets as toys when I was a kid. They look like this, compare to 7.62mm one:
I’m still alive to write something here, how lucky…
The militia was encouraged and supported by government as they were always prepared for a war, against USSR or US.
China and US restored normal diplomatic relationship in 1979, and the China-Vietnam war indicated that USSR was weakened and unable to support their allies, there was no need to maintain so many militia organizations as the possibility of total war was too low. Most of them are dismissed in 80s, but guns stayed in civilians’ hands, and yes, include that AA gun.
In 80s, the dark side of the “reform and opening-up policy” emerged, the public security condition was deteriorated to a critical level, many terrible things extinct for decades came back such as gangs, prostitute, and drugs. People fought on the street everyday, some time they used guns to shoot each other. Then Chinese government started to take over guns. That AA gun was towed to a steel plant in 1987, that was the last time I saw it, fortunately it didn’t kill anyone
