Right To Keep and Bear Arms - People's Republic of China

People's Republic of China

According to PRC law, there are firearms regulations and according to those regulations "whoever, in violation of firearm-control regulations, secretly keeps firearms or ammunition and refuses to relinquish them shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than two years or criminal detention."

Private ownership of firearms in China was first banned by the Qing dynasty.

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