Legislative regulation of firearms in Japan, China and the Philippines.
According to the UN, all firearms are prohibited only in Luxembourg and Malaysia. Handguns are prohibited in Russia, Belarus, China, Japan and Vietnam. In turn, firearms are allowed only in eight countries: Burkina Faso, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Romania, Sweden, Uganda and Zambia. In the countries where citizens have the right to carry handguns for self-defense, hunting or sporting guns for hunting or sport, there is a very stringent legislation. An important criminogenic factor today is the illegal weapon traffic. Even Japan could not avoid facing this problem. Control of weapons traffic is a matter of great concern for the government. Despite a very different approach to regulating weapons traffic in Japan, China and the Philippines, these countries are trying to hold the level of crime associated with the use of weapons within relatively acceptable limits. China and Japan have a ban on handguns, the Philippines has no such prohibition. It can be explained by the political situation in the country. In fact, the country is at war. Therefore, the state is not trying to create stillborn restrictive laws that cannot be implemented, but is trying to get control over existing weapons. In Japan and China the situation is quite different, the main problem is smuggling of weapons which leads to organized crime that threatens national security. In these countries, the legislator is focused on strengthening and improving law enforcement rather than making the citizens responsible for maintaining law and order in the country.