China launches gun crackdown

[gunsmith]

http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=188014860&p=y88xy5566

(are they planning a genocide or just being commies?)

China launches gun crackdown
05/07/2006 - 08:09:37 Beijing police are telling the city’s residents to turn in illegal guns or face prison amid a national crackdown on unlicensed firearms, a news report said today.

Beijing police are telling the city’s residents to turn in illegal guns or face prison amid a national crackdown on unlicensed firearms, a news report said today.

Police are also demanding that the public to turn in airguns and replica firearms, the China Daily newspaper said. It said those who fail to comply could be imprisoned for two years.

Beijing police seized 100 guns last month – 65 of them replicas – and detained 98 people, 10 of whom will face criminal charges, the report said.

The crackdown launched last month is aimed at enforcing a 1996 law that tightened gun controls by banning ownership of airguns, the China Daily said.

In southern China, police in Guangdong province seized 6,684 guns in April and May, 6,085 of which were replicas, the report said.

“Such guns may cause unnecessary nervousness among the public,” Qian Jin, a Beijing police official, was quoted as saying.

 

[Mongo the Mutterer]

Just being commies...

This story was probably run to support whatever "answers" IANSA and the boys come up with at the UN.

 

[Molon Labe]

America in 30 years.

 

[Kentak]

By replica, I assume you mean a non-functioning dummy gun. Or, do you mean a BB shooting look-alike?

 

[Deanimator]

Just being commies...

Nah, they're just common criminals now.

The city government of Beijing is mostly indistinguishable from the city government of Chicago.

 

[orangelo]

Looky looky... Gun control doesn't even work in a complete totalitarian government where the army can run over people with impunity and the secret police keeps tabs on everyone and can disappear anyone at will. Throw out the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and turn the US into a dictatorship and gun control still wont work.

 

[beerslurpy]

Chinese are big on murder by poison. Really nasty stuff is available in large quantities to nearly any peasant farmer.

When only the government has the guns, it simply becomes a matter of making a weapon capable of killing a government agent and taking his gun.

 

[Robert J McElwain]

The first job of any dictatorship is to collect all the guns. In China, this is obviously just a second or third sweep.

Bob

 

[MikeH]

By their definition, "replica guns" include airsoft/BB/toy guns that look real but aren't necessarily lethal.

Still, China is a big, big country. People outside tend to think that the government controls everything, but they actually don't. There are entire villages out in the boonies that grow whatever they grow by day, and make illegal firearms at night. Let's not even mention military firearms that make it to civilian hands through whatever means. The black market still thrives despite the crackdown.

 

[middy]

(are they planning a genocide or just being commies?)

What's the difference?

 

[longeyes]

Still, China is a big, big country. People outside tend to think that the government controls everything, but they actually don't. There are entire villages out in the boonies that grow whatever they grow by day, and make illegal firearms at night. Let's not even mention military firearms that make it to civilian hands through whatever means. The black market still thrives despite the crackdown.

Maybe. But is that the way WE want to live? By the time we get to a thriving black market for firearms the USA will be unrecognizable.

 

[geekWithA.45]

Honestly, who's shocked?

Well, I don't mean to be (too) cavalier, but what do you expect, considering that while the rest of the world was holding children's poster contests for world anti drug day,(1999 or 2000) the Chinese were holding mass public executions and stash burnings?

 

[Ira Aten]

Originally posted by Molon Labe:
"America in 30 years"


America in thirty? I am thinking more along the lines of eight, for the total ban. Four for the registration.

 

[LeoC]

Whoa.. and to think I almost brought an Airsoft pistol here from Hong Kong! I'm sure all the 'replica' guns are airsoft guns. They're legal in Hong Kong, and a lot are actually made in factories in Mainland China. It's actually not surprising that there are illegal (real) firearms in China. There is a whole underground industry in the Mainland of factory personnel stealing goods made in the factory and selling them on the black market. Granted, it'd probably be a lot tougher for a Norinco factory worker to do it than a toy gun factory worker, but you know it must happen. How's the saying go? "when guns are outlawed..."

The timing of this news and the UN Conference is no coincidence. China is trying to get in good with the old boys club (UN) and show their commitment to stemming the global spread of firearms.

 

[MikeH]

One result of the crackdown in China is that enthusiasts have started referring to their toys as dogs to avoid attention from the authorities. When people discuss "air dogs" on the internet, it surely isn't about inflatable canines.

 

[longeyes]

America in thirty? I am thinking more along the lines of eight, for the total ban. Four for the registration.

You may be right, but promulgation is one thing, enforcement is another. America is going to be a rollicking place politically in eight years given current trends.

 

[Randy in Arizona]

“Such guns may cause unnecessary nervousness among the public,”

Should be:

“Such guns may cause unnecessary nervousness among the politicians”

Which, of course in a country such as China can be hazardous to the gunowner's health!