How to own guns in Japan? How is it in theory and laws, and how in practice? When does something start qualifying as a gun (like when a air rifle pellet shooter suddenly require a license, and stuff alike).
Found the law regarding it and a few articles and I'm going through them with a translator, but I thought I'd ask here as well.
https://elaws.e-gov.go.jp/document?lawid=333AC0000000006
https://happy-dongurico.com/1355/
https://chikatoshoukai.com/gunslicence-intoro/
Additionally, how many shooting ranges are there, are they expensive, etc etc. Just everything you know and might be relevant.
You wait for someone who owns one to die and take their place.
>but I thought I'd ask here as well.
Then you're too stupid to own a gun.
nice, very helpful. I'm not even Japanese, just want to get to know the system.
they have like half an episode of sabagebu devoted to explaining how to legally aquire a firearm in Japan.
> He just cited a Japanese cartoon as his Appeal to Authority on firearm regulations.
bro I linked a manga about having sex with your fox wife as my authority on Japanese gun law earlier
>literally illegal to touch a gun until you finish gun/hunter's safety course
>police can and will ask your boss and co-workers if they think you can be trusted with a gun
>must buy police approved safe
>all ammo is counted out when sold
>must return spent shells to buy new ones
>fixed number of gun licenses so none of the above is possible until some other Jap dies (reminder that Japan has one of the highest life expectancies in the world)
Also, bow hunting isn't really a thing either and broad heads are outlawed. Japanese weapons laws are feudal and autistic.
tl;dr like says, the fact that you tried to get someone here to spoonfeed you gun laws in Japan is a pretty strong indicator that your chances of ever being a hasguns in moonland are 0
>must return spent shells to buy new ones
Best way to ruin gun ownership to guys with semi-autos. Because, as you know, everyone's stalking their prey with a gun and a magnet on a hockey stick for spent casings.
>semi-autos
do they even have those over there?
Probably. Probably not.
Anyway, this problem can be expanded to any guy who has anything but a break action shotgun with basic extractor.
>Best way to ruin gun ownership to guys with semi-autos. Because, as you know, everyone's stalking their prey with a gun and a magnet on a hockey stick for spent casings.
For hunting yeah you'd probably want to use a bolt, but that's not really an issue even in America unless it's hogs and they don't have that problem over there iirc.
But also anon not like there aren't a billion pic rail or whatever brass catcher bags available. People use 'em anyway just for reloading or whatever, they're cheap. Or just to frustrate brass goblins and make fuddranges seethe.
>For hunting yeah you'd probably want to use a bolt
I'm talking of shotguns mostly, Since it's Japan we're talking about. It's not easy searching for ejected casings in high grass.
>tl;dr like
Then you're too stupid to own a gun. says, the fact that you tried to get someone here to spoonfeed you gun laws in Japan is a pretty strong indicator that your chances of ever being a hasguns in moonland are 0
I don't get what's with the elitism or this nasty attitude. I have zero plans now for going to japan, let alone trying to get a gun there. I'm supposed to write about it for college and wanted to see what people here might say
>I don't get what's with the elitism or this nasty attitude
>That scene is old enough to join the military.
It never get's better, does it?
>tfw you can outgun a jap gun police squad without any help.
You are basing college research off stuff you misheard on PrepHole and you dont see how dumb that is? Who are your other sources chatgpt and wikipedia?
I'm not "basing" it on PrepHole shit, how dumb you have to be to even assume that. People post stuff and if I think something might be interesting I'll dig deeper for it in actual laws or other good sources.
>Who are your other sources chatgpt and wikipedia?
You've got to be retarded, I already linked the actual law in OP.
Japan's weapon laws are so insanely strict that they can't even get blunt steel swords for sparring or fencing, with the exception of foils, epees, and sabers for Olympic fencing. The metal katanas that they use for practicing iato are made of aluminum, which can't hold an edge. the only swords they can have in Japan have to be made through traditional Japanese means and cannot be made through modern means, because such an item is considered a cultural art rather than a weapon in the eyes of the law. Replicas like airsoft guns have a maximum FPS of 250 if I remember correctly. good luck getting a gun at all legally.
t. HEMA fag
Holy cuckage, I can't believe I had any more respect left to lose for the Japanese people.
>left to lose
I dunno man, Japs have had a very long history of being ruled by a centralised "up your ass" governments. Modern laws don't really seem like anything new.
What IS kinda interesting is how disarmed their police is as well.
>very long history of centralized government
Are you retarded? Japs had a centralized government from like 900 to 1100, then literally only had an actually centralized government again in fucking 1880. They're one of the historically least centralized countries on Earth.
>what is Tokugawa Shogunate?
A very decentralized government where regional powers kept each other in check, dumbass. A federal government with teeth wasn't introduced until the Meiji restoration.
You're a retarded nagger.
The centralized government banned weapons. In the 16th century
>参勤交代 Sankin Koutai, daimyos had to be in edo every other year, with their families being in edo when they were absent, serving the role of hostages. Travelling like that was also costly, which further weakened the daimyos.
>each han (are controlled by a daimyo) had to be approved by the Shogun
>一国一城令 one country one castle law, each daimyo could only have one castle in which he resided, all others had to be destroyed
>Tokugawa clan owned the largest area in the country
>second largest owned like 1/7th of that
The shogun held all daimyos by the balls (or their wives and children I guess) and decided about their territories, so how can you talk about "regional powers keeping each other in check"?
Japan is good only in animes, waifus and aesthetic, anon. Their history about civilian weapons is just... terrible. They dont/cant asociate freedom with guns.
Fuck off, weabo.
How many politicians killed in US in past few years?
Not enough.
Japan has been gun (sword) grabbing since even before the meiji restoration, they've never been too fond of the average joe owning guns
Combine that with the US confiscating arms during the occupation to prevent revolt and you now have some of the strictest restrictions without banning guns outright like some other countries
hell even their police's use of guns is very restricted
IIRC Jap cops are still running around with S&W Model 36s because barely anyone can outgun them
Before they cracked down on the yakuza, they blatantly outgunned the police
But it’s just like in America….don’t be worth a bullet.
I can walk through downtown LA and look like them, dress like them they won’t rob you.
If you step out of a Mercedes with a patek on and cash sticking out of your pockets you’ll have a problem everywhere you go in California
Remember that at least the Japanese are all about "Preserve the ruling order" instead of the hypocritical "but if it saves one life" of Western gun control.
You can buy real swords, actually buy real katanas for pretty cheap
They’re unsigned, the really well made signed ones are museum pieces but your everyday rich dork katana with no signature is pretty cheap
You don't need firearms in Japan. If you want firearms why would you BE in Japan? That's stupid. There is nothing for a Westerner to care about there. I'd not mind a short tour while serving but living there is retarded unless you're Japanese.
SHALL
...be subject to the whims and desires of changing political climates and the choices made by political representatives and lobbyists over time.
here, read this manga
https://mangadex.org/title/c8b7c932-3eaa-4005-81ef-c70f2862b51b/kitsune-no-oyome-chan
>traps require registration
>have to throw rocks like a cave man
Grim.
don't forget the supplement
https://exhentai.org/g/771933/86d4dc78b8/
That's why people invented throwable sticks and boomerangs.
>register airsoft guns
read the manga
probably a mistranslation, the autor was most likely referring to air guns
>don’t need a permit to hunt with thrown rocks
Honestly kind of based. Embrace your inner unga bunga.
The blackpowder shotgun shinzo abe edition is literally the only way to be hasgun in japland without jumping through hopps like a demented circusdog and waiting 3+years.
There's lots of guns up on Hokkaido. It's more rural, plenty of hunting opportunities, and the authorities out in the sticks are more lax. Some guy even managed to wrangle a folding stocked Saiga for "bear defense" some years back.
breddy sick. we really lost something special when russian arms imports were banned. saiga 12s actually kick most of the competition's ass wrt value and quality.
But it takes you as much effort as getting a full auto gun and no handguns or semi auto rifles
>Some guy even managed to wrangle a folding stocked Saiga for "bear defense" some years back.
kek
>a guy who owns a saiga is a national celebrity, journalists have to wait in line to interview him
i remember seeing a saiga in either .223 or 7.62x39 in a jap website years ago
Their firearms police, which are themselves an extremely small and elite group, are issued a 5 shot .38 snubnose with ammo strips because speedloaders are too high speed. The only long guns they have available are for rural animal control.
For private owners it's basically just smoothbore double barrel shotguns and possibly an intermediate caliber rifle. Owning these items allows the police to randomly inspect your home and question you if the amount of ammo you have does not match the receipts from your purchases. They can (and will) literally say "why do you need more than one box of ammo" if you attempt to purchase another without accounting for the previous one being used. The permits to own these are incredibly restrictive and are 100% denied without a demonstrable need.
You must also understand that the police have an extreme degree of authority in making judgement calls that fall on the side of caution. For instance they can absolutely stop someone, ask why they are carrying anything resembling a weapon and then confiscate it with no recourse if they feel you are a potential anti-social element. They make the Britbongs look like a libertarian wetdream when it comes to this shit. The most advanced weapon you will find in the hands of a street gang is a replica bokken or maybe a padlock tied on the end of a rope.
Actual yakuza can get ahold of Korean military surplus but their guns function kind of like WMDs for the rest of the world. If you don't have any another gang could just muscle you out by threat of using them but nobody is actually going to try because the JP police will do fucking whatever it takes to investigate a firearms related crime if they catch wind of it.
>the JP police will do fucking whatever it takes to investigate a firearms related crime if they catch wind of it
This is true. There's a quiet agreement (though it's been falling apart the last decade) that the cops won't investigate a crime TOO hard so long as nobody dies and you don't use a gun. But if you demonstrably kill anybody, your ass is immediately on the kill list for the cops. It's why some yakuza got really, really good at disappearing people.
really fucking strict to the point there is some sort of backlog to even get a license for hunting. Due to the Japanese government limiting on who gets it, so you have to wait until someone dies to get it. Very cucked government that is also corrupted to its core. Even their healthcare is not that good as doctors don't necessarily treat you and find the problem. Japan is a pretty bizarre place that is full of misconceptions from foreigners.
Get hit by truck-kun and get isekai'd to America.
Weebhomosexuals finding out their favorite country is actually a police state but not communist will always be hilarious.
what..?
retard, everyone knew this already. No one in this thread even remotely seems surprised
Japan is a good life for the Japaners. Live in your modest apartment, food is inexpensive, society is safe and inoffensive, good trains, work, go out drinking, work, go out drinking, work, go out drinking, buy anime e-boi porn and masturbate to it, work, go out drinking, golden week so go to a baseball game, work, go out drinking, buy electronics, work, go out drinking, get old, sweep the sidewalks for fun. It’s low effort, no thought. Not good for westerners. In fact we should never even go there. Just treat Japan like a nature preserve and the Japaners like a bunch of cute little monkeys. Watch from afar.
>Live in your modest apartment, food is inexpensive, society is safe and inoffensive, good trains, work, go out drinking, work, go out drinking, work, go out drinking, buy anime e-boi porn and masturbate to it, work
Japan is not like that lol. You don't have time to do your own thing and even if you do, you're just peer pressured into drinking with your boss for some communal bullshit. Japan is not even good for Japanese as their lifestyle is honestly depressing. Why else do you think they created animes/isekais where it has all the individualistic/free natures that japan doesn't have?
The american privilege of walking into a gunshow with a few hundred bucks and leaving with an AR15 + mags
What losing a war does to a motherfucker
>Moving to Japan to own guns
Are you retarded or a weeb? Wait, scratch that, those are both mutual to each other.
I want to say that all pornography is legal there as long as its censored.
One of the last places that dog fucking is ignored
Make your own.
My cousin owns guns, lives outside Yokohama. Attorney