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SecularMotion

(7,981 posts)
Fri Apr 18, 2014, 07:33 AM Apr 2014

China Seizes 10,000 Illegal Guns In Weapons Raid, As Gun Culture Becomes More Popular

A raid in southern China resulted in the seizure of over 10,000 illegally owned guns, in addition to thousands of illegal knives. And besides being the largest haul of illegal firearms to date in China, the raid in the city of Guiyang, located in Guizhou province, has brought to the light once more China’s evolving, underground gun culture.

China’s weapons laws are among the world’s strictest. The country bans all private gun ownership, with very few exceptions. This however has not prevented the emergence of an increasingly robust illegal gun business. China’s central television station, CCTV, reported that 10,500 guns and 120,000 knives were seized by authorities in the crackdown.

In general, gun violence in China is not a grave public concern; knives are the more common weapon of choice because of accessibility and availability. Illegal guns are becoming indeed an increasingly dangerous business -- fifteen people were arrested in the most recent raid, accused of gang involvement and illegal firearm trafficking -- but China does not have anything comparable to what an average American would know as "gun culture".

Located in the same province as Guiyang, a village known as Basha is an exception to the rule. Basha villagers are one of China’s 55 ethnic minority groups, known collectively as the Miao (while the majority of Chinese are considered ethnic Han). The men of Basha are legally allowed to make, carry, and fire guns in the name of tradition. Basha Miao are exempt from the government’s blanket ban on guns, and are even marketed as the nation’s last gunslingers. They have turned into a tourist attraction, known for their performances in marksmanship.

http://www.ibtimes.com/china-seizes-10000-illegal-guns-weapons-raid-gun-culture-becomes-more-popular-1571395
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Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
2. Gun slinging used to be a tourist attraction in America also.......
Fri Apr 18, 2014, 08:38 AM
Apr 2014

until cowardly politicians bowed to gun manufacturers and now guns are boringly everywhere, totally destroying the gun slinging tourist industry in America forever.

 

Eleanors38

(18,318 posts)
3. You should celebrate the end of that culture...
Fri Apr 18, 2014, 09:22 AM
Apr 2014

but there is still Cowboy Action Shooting (SASS-sponsored), and shotgun exhibition shooting. Never was much into "slinging," though I've seen a lot of it from the controllers.

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