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© Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.NRA has history of promoting gun rights outside U.S.
By LISA MARIE PANE BOISE, Idaho©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Toasted Heretic
They need to keep their sick ideology within the US. Stop infecting the rest of the world with the gun disease.
Deadforgood
They need to be snubbed out of the US as well...
Goodlucktoyou
Promoting guns is like having unprotected sex while infected with HIV.
NCIS Reruns
Firearms were not that difficult to obtain in Japan before the war, although there was resistance against owing them on a cultural and historical levels. What's interesting is that the postwar military occupation pretty much banned civilian gun ownership except as pest control by farmers and use by police. The regulations were kept in place even after the occupation ended and it was not until six years later that Japan's Diet got around to enacting a firearms and swords control law. It was passed by acclaim, with no objections and no debate. And guess what? That law pretty much was a rubber stamp of what the occupation authorities put into force. (The NRA notwithstanding.) Whatever the legislative motives may have been back in 1958, I congratulate the members of the Diet for their wisdom and common sense.
TorafusuTorasan
@NCIS--if you are counting wooden "swords" among the regulated weapons, martial arts items such as the kendo shinai was banned during the 1940s occupation but then became legal again. And hunting is possible in Japan without owning farmland, so the laws on who can hunt with guns must have liberalized somewhat. So it seems that Japanese lawmakers brought more sensible ideas to correct the earlier harsh occupation laws.
Viktor Cernatinskij
NRA exists because we have way too many naive fools...
bass4funk
If other countries want it and it helps them, I’m all for it.
Haaa Nemui
... who agree with them.
Mocheake
Those three capitalized letters in that order are one of the organizations I most despise. If they were ever to receive some real karma I would not be displeased in the least.