China
Gun Briefing Backfires in China: Policeman Accidentally Shoots Reporters
BBC News
18 July 2008
Three Chinese reporters attending a police briefing on the success of an anti-gun campaign were accidentally shot, media reports say. An officer picked up one of the weapons on show -- a confiscated home-made gun -- but it went off in his hand. A reporter needed surgery for injuries to his ankle, crotch and chest, after being hit by what appeared to be pebbles fired by the gun. Two others were slightly injured... ( gunpolicy.org )
Zimbabwe, China, Southern Africa
Outrage Lingers Over Chinese Shipment of Guns, Ammunition to Zimbabwe
Arms Control Today (USA)
1 June 2008
In April, South African dockworkers refused to unload a Chinese cargo ship carrying more than 70 tons of small arms destined for Zimbabwe. The refusal set off international reactions that led to the recall of the shipment and calls for stronger international arms trade measures, such as a global arms trade treaty. The shipment, including three million rounds of ammunition for AK47s and 1,500 rocket-propelled grenades, was meant... ( gunpolicy.org )
China
Chinese Official Was Gang Boss 'With Crush on Guns' - Jailed for Life
Reuters
29 May 2008
BEIJING -- A gun-toting Chinese official who owned two Ferraris and liked driving around in an amoured personnel carrier has been jailed for life for illegal weapons possession and fraud, state media reported on Friday. Yang Shukuan, a former member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference for the northern city of Tangshan and the head of an organized crime ring, was arrested for extortion last year. "The... ( gunpolicy.org )
World, United States, France, Canada, Germany, Angola, Thailand, Australia, Colombia, South Africa, Turkey, Pakistan, Russia, Brazil, United Kingdom, India, China
Guns Around the World: Civilian Firearms per 100 People in 16 Nations
Economist
30 April 2008
An estimated 875m small arms are in circulation worldwide: one for every seven people on the planet. Nearly three-quarters of these are owned by civilians. And about 80% of those guns in civilian hands are found in just 30 countries, according to the Small Arms Survey, a research group. Although America accounts for 40% of firearms in civilian ownership, people put them to more deadly use elsewhere. The gun murder rate in Colombia... ( gunpolicy.org )
Zimbabwe, China
Arms Cargo to Zimbabwe Exposes Mugabe's Link to Chinese Gun Maker
Sunday Times (UK)
28 April 2008
The boycott of a Chinese ship laden with weapons for Zimbabwe has cast new light on the connections between the African country's president, Robert Mugabe, and a secretive Chinese arms-trading firm with a controversial track record from the Congo to Darfur. The ship steamed towards China last week after dock workers in Durban refused to unload it and a South African court blocked the transit of its cargo of mortar and small arms... ( gunpolicy.org )
Zimbabwe, China
Beijing Recalls Zimbabwe Arms Cargo: Speculation on Gun Airlift to Mugabe
Associated Press
25 April 2008
BEIJING -- A shipment of Chinese weapons headed for troubled Zimbabwe will be returned to China because there is no way to deliver it to the landlocked country in southern Africa, China said Thursday. Countries neighboring Zimbabwe refused to allow the Chinese freighter An Yue Jiang to dock at their ports. That followed heavy pressure from African unions, churches and human rights groups, bolstered by behind-the-scenes pressure... ( gunpolicy.org )
Zimbabwe, Zambia, United Kingdom, Canada, China, World
Chinese Gun Shipment to Zimbabwe Shines Spotlight on Global Gun Trade
Toronto Star (Ontario)
24 April 2008
When the Chinese freighter An Yue Jiang pulled into the South African port of Durban last week loaded with weapons bound for crisis-ridden Zimbabwe, it seemed to be just one more day in the lucrative arms trade that has engulfed the continent with deadly results. Instead the ship ran into a storm of protest -- with dock workers joining union leaders, church officials and the High Court to block the shipment -- until the vessel left... ( gunpolicy.org )
Zimbabwe, South Africa, Mozambique, Zambia, China
Praise 3 African Nations for Barring 'Ship of Shame' Gun Cargo to Zimbabwe
Los Angeles Times, Editorial
24 April 2008
It's a rare moment when three African nations, in an effort to forestall violence, block a shipment of weapons to a neighboring country in political turmoil. It's perhaps even a historic development when those weapons were sold by a great power and were bound for a government that is not under United Nations sanctions and has every legal right to buy arms -- though no moral right to do so. So let us praise the courageous peoples of South... ( gunpolicy.org )
Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, China
Cargo of Chinese Guns, Ammunition Visits Namibia on Way to Zimbabwe
Namibian (Windhoek)
22 April 2008
A Chinese ship carrying six containers of ammunition for Zimbabwe has applied to take on fuel at Walvis Bay this morning. The An Yue Jiang is carrying three million rounds of AK-47 ammunition, 1 500 rocket-propelled grenades and more than 3 000 mortar rounds and mortar tubes. Attempts to get comment from Government yesterday were unsuccessful. Messages were left for Minister of Information, Joel Kaapanda, but he... ( gunpolicy.org )
Zimbabwe, China, South Africa, United States, Mozambique, Angola, Namibia
China Says Ship Carrying Ammunition, Guns to Zimbabwe May Head Home
Associated Press
22 April 2008
HARARE, Zimbabwe -- A shipment of weapons to Zimbabwe may be returned to China, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said Tuesday, after the troubled southern African nation's neighbors prevented the cargo from being unloaded. The Chinese freighter arrived in South Africa last week, and human rights groups and others said they feared the mortar grenades and bullets onboard could be used by President Robert Mugabe's regime to clamp down... ( gunpolicy.org )
Zimbabwe, China, South Africa, Mozambique, Angola, Namibia, Zambia
Chinese Ammunition 'Ship of Shame' Adrift in Southern African Controversy
IRIN (UN News)
22 April 2008
JOHANNESBURG -- There were conflicting reports about the whereabouts of a Chinese ship, laden with a cargo of small arms destined for Zimbabwe, after it was turned away from South Africa's port city of Durban. According to some reports, the 150-metre multipurpose cargo vessel, the An Yue Jiang - registered in China and one of 600 vessels owned by the China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO), dubbed by South African media as the "Ship... ( gunpolicy.org )
Zimbabwe, South Africa, Namibia, China
Global Gun Control Campaign Protests Chinese Arms Shipment to Zimbabwe
New Era (Windhoek)
22 April 2008
WINDHOEK -- The Legal Assistance Centre (LAC) yesterday called on all Namibians to raise their voices in protest against the docking of the Chinese ship, An Jue Jiang, at a Namibian harbour. The ship is carrying arms bound for Zimbabwe, including three million rounds of ammunition and desperately trying to find a way to deliver the cargo to that country. After the International Action Network on Small Arms, IANSA, a global... ( gunpolicy.org )
Zimbabwe, China, South Africa, United States, Mozambique, Angola, Namibia
Gun Cargo Rejection 'Dramatic Turn' for Africa's Embrace of Zimbabwe
Washington Post
22 April 2008
JOHANNESBURG -- A Chinese ship carrying weapons and ammunition for Zimbabwe's military may be headed back home, reports said, after repeated attempts to deliver its cargo were frustrated by a coalition of legal activists, union workers and human rights groups. The region's resistance to the shipment, which drew praise from the United States on Tuesday, marks a dramatic turn from southern Africa's traditional embrace of Zimbabwe's... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Mozambique, Zambia, Angola, China
Southern African Ports Shun Ship Carrying Guns to Zimbabwe; US Agrees
Los Angeles Times / Chicago Tribune
22 April 2008
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Public outcries have forced a rusty Chinese cargo ship to avoid South Africa, Mozambique and Angola, leaving it at sea Tuesday with 77 tons of munitions bound for Zimbabwe, where an election crisis has reportedly turned violent. The An Yue Jiang was carrying about 3 million rounds of Chinese ammunition, 1,500 rockets and 3,000 mortar shells. The State Department's top Africa envoy, who is to arrive... ( gunpolicy.org )
Zimbabwe, South Africa, Namibia, China
Under African Pressure, China Recalls Cargo of Zimbabwe Guns, Ammo?
SW Radio Africa (London)
22 April 2008
A controversial arms shipment from China, meant for crisis torn Zimbabwe, might have been recalled back to China following pressure from African countries that refused to allow it to dock at their ports. On Tuesday the China Ocean Shipping Company, owners of the An Yue Jiang ship, announced their vessel was coming back home. Despite Chinese claims that the delivery was 'normal military product trade,' Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Namibia, Angola, South Africa, China
US Seeks to Block Zimbabwe-bound Chinese Ammunition, Gun Shipment
Associated Press
22 April 2008
WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration is intervening with governments in southern Africa to prevent a Chinese ship carrying weapons for Zimbabwe's security forces from unloading its cargo, The Associated Press has learned. At the same time, the State Department's top Africa hand, Jendayi Frazer, plans to visit the region this week to underscore U.S. concerns about the shipment. Frazer also will try to persuade Zimbabwe's neighbors... ( gunpolicy.org )
Zimbabwe, China, South Africa, Mozambique, Angola, Namibia
Zimbabwe Bristles at Southern Africa's Rejection of Guns, Ammo Cargo
News24 (Cape Town)
22 April 2008
HARARE -- Zimbabwe bristled at criticism for buying arms from China on Tuesday, as pressure mounted on its neighbours to keep a load of weapons from reaching their destination. China said a Chinese ship carrying the shipment might return home without offloading its cargo. The ship arrived in South Africa last week carrying Chinese weapons for landlocked Zimbabwe. South African human rights, union and others groups objected,... ( gunpolicy.org )
Zimbabwe, South Africa, China
Campaign Against Zimbabwe Ammunition, Gun Shipment Gains Momentum
Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) / SAPA
21 April 2008
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- A campaign to prevent arms currently aboard a Chinese ship from reaching Zimbabwe gained momentum on Monday with trade unions calling on their counterparts not to allow the vessel to dock at any African port. The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) called for an international boycott of the vessel. "Cosatu is doing everything possible to alert the international trade-union movement... ( gunpolicy.org )
Zimbabwe, South Africa, Angola, China
South African Court, Unions, NGOs Block Guns, Ammo Cargo to Zimbabwe
Scotland on Sunday
20 April 2008
Dockyard workers in Africa are refusing to unload a Chinese ship laden with weapons for Zimbabwe. The whereabouts of the vessel, the An Yue Jiang, were not known last night, although it was believed to be heading to Angola. Sources say the ship is carrying three million rounds of AK-47 ammunition along with 1,500 rocket-propelled grenades and several thousand mortar rounds. Dock workers in the region are expected to refuse... ( gunpolicy.org )
Italy, Libya, Chad, Sudan, China
Libya Tried to Buy 1 Million Chinese Assault Rifles, Perhaps for Chad, Sudan
Associated Press
13 April 2008
PERUGIA, Italy -- The Libyan officer tried to cloak the purpose of his call to the Italian arms dealer. "A friend," he said, wanted to buy 1 million "pieces" and 50 million items of "food." But when that phone call was placed in 2006, Italian police were listening. They knew the meaning. Libya was shopping for guns -- lots of them. Authorities shadowed the negotiations between Libyan officials and a group of black-market... ( gunpolicy.org )
China
Debt, Domestic Stress Could See Chinese Police Stripped of Handguns
Reuters
10 April 2008
BEIJING -- Police facing emotional strains due to financial or romantic problems could be stripped of their department-issued handguns in China's Jiangxi province, a newspaper reported on Thursday. The public security bureau in the province will begin inspections this month to make sure officers who have received administrative punishments, or are under investigation, will not be able to carry firearms, the Southern Metropolis Daily... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States, Afghanistan, Iraq, China
US Army Accuses Miami Gun Dealer of Fraud in $200m Afghan Ammo Deal
New York Times
28 March 2008
When the United States Army decided this week to suspend the main supplier of munitions to Afghan security forces from future federal work, it did so after a field investigation documented what it called an act of fraud. Last Nov. 25, the president of the company, Efraim E. Diveroli, signed papers certifying that 28 pallets of ammunition for Afghanistan had been manufactured by MFS 2000, a Hungarian company, according to the investigators'... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States, Afghanistan, China
US Suspends Miami 22yr-old in $200m China-Afghan Guns, Ammo Ripoff
CNN
28 March 2008
WASHINGTON -- U.S. investigators are looking into accusations that a company hired by the U.S. military supplied corroded and decades-old Chinese ammunition to the Afghan Army and police. The U.S. government has suspended AEY Inc. of Miami, Florida for violating its contract, according to U.S. Army documents obtained by CNN. And the House Oversight Committee plans to hold a hearing into the matter on April 17. "The... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States, Afghanistan, China, Albania, Iraq
US Offers 22yr-old Miami Man $300m for Old, Often Dud Afghan War Ammo
New York Times
27 March 2008
Since 2006, when the insurgency in Afghanistan sharply intensified, the Afghan government has been dependent on American logistics and military support in the war against Al Qaeda and the Taliban. But to arm the Afghan forces that it hopes will lead this fight, the American military has relied since early last year on a fledgling company led by a 22-year-old man whose vice president was a licensed masseur. With the award... ( gunpolicy.org )
Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, China
Demand for Guns Soars in Lebanon - Detailed Survey of Availability, Costs
Al-Hayat (London) / BBC Worldwide Monitoring, Transcript
18 March 2008
BEIRUT -- The Lebanese are talking these days about the phenomenon of the spread of weapons and the increasing trade in them. Many say this is a prelude to the ignition of rounds of warfare with the looming shadows of the sharp political and sectarian split seen on the Lebanese arena. Al-Hayat prepared a report on this phenomenon. It met weapons merchants, political activists, and civilians who revealed that the weapons market in Lebanon... ( gunpolicy.org )
China, Sudan
China Denies Dramatic Increase in Assault Weapon sales to Sudan, Darfur
Associated Press
14 March 2008
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- A U.S.-based human rights group said China dramatically boosted small-arms sales to Sudan as violence escalated in Darfur. Beijing denied the group's report on Friday. The report released Thursday by Human Rights First said China is the biggest supplier of small arms to Sudan. It provided 90 percent of all the African nation's small arms acquisitions between 2004 and 2006, totaling more than $50 million.... ( gunpolicy.org )
China, Sudan
China Sold $55 Million Worth of Guns to Sudan, Says Human Rights Group
Agence France Presse
13 March 2008
BEIJING -- China is the biggest supplier of small arms to Sudan following three years of increased sales that helped fuel violence in the African nation's Darfur region, a US-based rights group has said. From 2004 to 2006, China sold over 55 million dollars worth of small arms to the Sudanese government, which then armed the Arab militias accused of genocide in Darfur, Human Rights First said in a report released on Thursday. ... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States, China
Guns in US 'Serious Threat to Life, Security' - China's Human Rights Report
China View (Beijing)
13 March 2008
BEIJING -- The Information Office of China's State Council issued "The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2007" on Thursday, revealing about 30,000 people die from gun wounds every year in the United States. The United States has an estimated 250 million privately-owned firearms, the largest number in the world, according to the Chinese report. "Frequent gun violence poses a serious threat to people's life and... ( gunpolicy.org )
Sudan, China, Chad, Austria
Guns, Grenade Launchers in Chad, Darfur Traced Back to China, Austria
Mother Jones (USA)
22 February 2008
My first glimpse into the flow of small arms into Darfur began at 4:45 on a February morning in 2006. The lights were off in the first-class Sudan Airways lounge at Khartoum International Airport. Sitting to my left was Abdallah, resplendent in white robes, sporting spectacles and a sharply trimmed goatee. Back then, Abdallah's younger brother, Mahamat Nour, was the leader of an 8,000-man rebel force sworn to overthrow the government of... ( gunpolicy.org )
China
China Tries 12 Men Accused of Manufacturing Firearms, Trafficking Guns
China Daily (Beijing)
24 January 2008
Twelve members of a notorious crime gang went on trial yesterday in the Guangdong provincial capital. Reading aloud from an 11-page indictment, the prosecution accused Deng Weibo and Gong Nanmin, the two leaders of the gang, and their cohorts of organizing secret societies, illegally producing, owning and trading weapons, gathering to engage in fights, injuring and blackmailing people and other serious crimes between the second... ( gunpolicy.org )
China
Chinese Hunting Park Dreams of More Guns, Looser Gun Control
Reuters
12 January 2008
YUQUAN, China -- In a frigid forest in northeastern China, sub-zero temperatures and thick snow aren't enough to dampen tourists' enthusiasm for firing a few rounds at farm-raised animals let loose in the wild. Yuquan International Hunting Field in Heilongjiang province draws more than 100,000 domestic tourists a year, many traveling thousands of miles to get their hands on a rifle or shotgun for the first time in a country where... ( gunpolicy.org )
China
Skeet Shooter Shot Dead By Team Mate: Shanghai Calls for Gun Control
China Daily (Beijing)
7 December 2007
SHANGHAI -- The death of a skeet shooter who was shot by a teammate during a training session on Monday prompted authorities to hold an emergency meeting on Thursday, calling for stricter management in the civilian use of guns and bullets in the city. The death of Chen Zejun, 20, a member of Shanghai's skeet shooting reserve team, is believed to be the first case of its kind in the country since 1949. Chen was heard shouting... ( gunpolicy.org )
China
Chinese Man Gets 19 Years Jail for Holdup, Robbery with Imitation Gun
Reuters
12 September 2007
BEIJING -- A court in southern China has jailed a 21-year-old man who used a toy gun to steal a backpack containing HK$1.7 million ($218,000) for 19 years, Xinhua news agency said on Wednesday. Xie Wei held the toy gun to a man's head in a bank carpark in Guangzhou, capital of coastal Guangdong province, and fled with the victim's backpack, the agency said. Police later caught Xie in possession of 1.61 million yuan ($214,000),... ( gunpolicy.org )
China
Chinese Police Call for Greater Public Help to Stamp Out Gun Trade
People's Daily (China) / Xinhua
23 August 2007
China's Ministry of Public Security (MPS) has called for greater public cooperation in helping to crack down on illegal gun production and trade. Wu Dongli, director of the ministry's public order management bureau, said in an online interview on Wednesday that a handful of rural people in remote and backward areas were illegally producing firearms to make money. The guns were sold to criminals, putting the public at serious... ( gunpolicy.org )
India, China
People's Gun AK-47 Begat Mao's Type 56 Assault Rifle, Sprayed the World
Times of India
5 August 2007
The name is Kalashnikov. Sixty years ago, Mikhail Kalashnikov, the lost son of a rich farmer was swallowed by a Siberian gulag. Then he found his calling and became a Soviet patriot by putting together eight pieces of hard wood and strong metal pipes in such a way that they could spit 600 bullets in a minute and reduce an army of men to a bloodied pulp of flesh and bones in seconds. Since then Kalashnikov's automatic, and its many offspring,... ( gunpolicy.org )
China
China Vows to Maintain Strict Controls on Guns in Wake of Virginia Massacre
China Daily
23 April 2007
Public Security Ministry spokesman Wu Heping on Friday said China would maintain strict controls on guns, while responding to the deadly rampage at a US university on Monday. "I would like to express my deep sympathy and condolences to the victims of the tragedy in the United States, which claimed the lives of many young students," Wu told China Daily. Wu said the tragedy also throws into focus gun ownership in China. ... ( gunpolicy.org )
China
China Will Learn from Virginia Shooting, Tighten Gun Laws, Says Official
Xinhua
19 April 2007
A senior Chinese police official on Thursday said China's police would learn from the Virginia campus shooting and take measures to tighten gun control. "The tragedy in the U.S. has affected many lives of young students. We feel equally sad about that but it reminds us to strengthen management over the use of guns," said Wu Heping, the spokesman of the Ministry of Public Security, at a regular press conference. Barring... ( gunpolicy.org )
Malta, Iraq, Italy, Libya, China, Russia
Maltese Company, Libya, China Accused of Gun Running to Iraqi Insurgents
Independent (Malta)
15 February 2007
Italian authorities yesterday announced they had interrupted an international arms trafficking deal that was to have operated between China, Malta, Italy and Libya, and which planned to supply hundreds of thousands of weapons to Iraqi insurgents, international media reported yesterday. The operation was to have seen an unnamed Maltese company acting as a middleman between Chinese weapons producers and Libyan buyers, who would, in... ( gunpolicy.org )
China
China Considers Tightening Gun Laws, Improving Firearms Enforcement
Shanghai Daily
12 February 2007
China's Ministry of Public Security is studying the feasibility of revising its gun law for better management and implementation, Legal Daily reported today. The gun law plays an important role in maintaining social security and controlling the use of guns, but some authorities haven't managed guns according to the law or implemented the law strictly, said the Internal and Judicial Affairs Committee of the National People's Congress,... ( gunpolicy.org )
China
Chinese Railway Police Bust Replica Handgun Traffickers
Shanghai Daily
26 January 2007
Shanghai railway police captured 25 guns and 32 suspects accused of trading guns from southwest China to Anhui and Zhejiang provinces. On November 8, police officers found Bian Muxi and Xia Rong carrying two replica military pistols and 54 bullets on a train from Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province, to Anhui's Huainan City. Bian and Xia told police that they trade guns and ammunition with another five.... ( gunpolicy.org )
China
Chinese Police Destroy 194 Illegal Gun Factories, 178,000 Guns, Ammo
People's Daily (China) / Xinhua
16 December 2006
Chinese police have destroyed 194 illegal gun factories and shops in a crackdown on weapons and explosives between June and September. In a news release to Xinhua on Friday, the Ministry of Public Security disclosed details on the three-month crackdown on explosives, guns, ammunition and forbidden knives. Police seized 3,900 tons of explosives, 7.77 million detonators, 4.83 million meters of fuse, 178,000 guns, 638,000... ( gunpolicy.org )
China
To Reduce Demand for Illegal Guns, China Speeds Antipoverty Measures
People's Daily / Xinhua
15 December 2006
Serving a two-year jail term for gun-running, Xu Junyou longs for freedom and an honest job in Guangdong Province, south China's economic powerhouse. Xu had been a farmer in Songtao Miao Autonomous County, of the southwestern Guizhou Province, before his conviction. "I know it's a crime to sell guns," Xu says, "but the rewards were too tempting -- it was as much as my family can earn in three months." Two hundred... ( gunpolicy.org )
China
New Chinese Police Revolver Designed to Immobilise, Not Necessarily to Kill
Xinhua
7 December 2006
ZHENGZHOU -- China's first gun specially designed for police, a nine-millimeter revolver, has been tested in a special police unit in central China's Henan Province. The police can use the revolver, which fires antipersonnel and rubber bullets, to subdue criminals and disperse riots in a range of 50 meters, said Wang Pusheng, a training official with the special police unit of Zhengzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau. The... ( gunpolicy.org )
China
Ammunition Smugglers Could Face Death Penalty: Chinese Supreme Court
Xinhua
16 November 2006
China's Supreme People's Court on Thursday announced that anyone found smuggling more than ten artillery shells across the country's borders would receive the death penalty or life imprisonment. According to a judicial interpretation of the criminal law on smuggling cases issued by the court, people who smuggle between five and ten conventional less-than-60-millimeter shells or grenades across the border, or no more than five more-than-60-millimeter... ( gunpolicy.org )
China, Africa
China Vows to Help Africa Combat Global Gun Trade, Fund & Train Experts
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the People's Republic of China, Web Page
16 November 2006
I. Preamble 1.1 On 3-5 November 2006, the Beijing Summit and the Third Ministerial Conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) were held in Beijing. Heads of state, government and delegation as well as ministers of foreign affairs and ministers in charge of economic cooperation from China and 48 African countries (hereinafter referred to as "the two sides") attended the Summit and Ministerial Conference respectively.... ( gunpolicy.org )
Russia, United States, China, World
Russia Tops US, Europe, China in Gun Trade to Developing World
National Post (Toronto) / CanWest
6 November 2006
UNITED NATIONS -- Ask anyone to guess who's the biggest arms supplier to developing countries and chances are the answer will be the United States -- the world's biggest arms trader. But the latest figures on new arms deals show Russia is now the biggest peddler of weapons to what used to be called the Third World, and the United States comes in third behind France. In fact, when it comes to sub-Saharan Africa, host to... ( gunpolicy.org )
Vietnam, China
Gun Runners Stole 68 Vietnam Government Pistols for Sale to China: Police
Vietnam Bridge / SGGP
29 October 2006
50 people appeared Friday in Tuyen Quang Province People's Court on charges of illegal weapons trading, drug smuggling and bribery. Taking advantage of a careless supervisor, a storeman at a Ministry of Public Security armory managed to steal 65 K54 pistols, three K59 pistols and 82 K54 bullets from 2002 to 2004. Nguyen Manh Duc was arrested while trying to send the stolen weapons to his accomplices to smuggle into China.... ( gunpolicy.org )
China, Pakistan
China Passes Death Sentences on Pakistan-China Gun Runners
China Daily / Reuters
26 October 2006
A court in western China has upheld death sentences against two leaders of a gun-running racket that reached into neighbouring Pakistan, state media reported on Wednesday. Last October, Ma Zeying and Zhang Chenming were sentenced to death by Haidong District Court in China's Qinghai province for illegally buying, shipping and selling guns in China's biggest gun-running case. It said the gang bought 914 guns and 1,556 gun... ( gunpolicy.org )
Australia, China
Australian Gun Inventor 'Offered $US100m' to Take Technology to China
Australian (Sydney)
29 September 2006
The inventor of a potentially devastating new weapons system has said the Australian government has underestimated the determination of the Chinese army to acquire the technology. Mike O'Dwyer, the Brisbane-based inventor of Metal Storm -- an electronic system which enables guns to fire at up to one million rounds a minute -- has told the Nine Network's Sunday program he received an offer of US$100 million to take the technology... ( gunpolicy.org )
China
China Busts 100 Gun Factories, Arrests Thousands in 3-month Campaign
Agence France Presse
12 September 2006
BEIJING -- Chinese police have busted more than 100 underground gun factories and arrested thousands of suspects in a nationwide crackdown on illegal weapons, state media said Tuesday. But police also said violent crimes involving the use of guns and explosives had dropped markedly in recent years, Xinhua news agency said, quoting the Ministry of Public Security. In a three-month campaign that began in June, police cracked down... ( gunpolicy.org )
China
Chinese Police Destroy 113 Illegal Gun Factories, Seize 117,000 Guns
Xinhua
12 September 2006
BEIJING -- The Chinese police have destroyed 113 illegal gun factories and shops in a three-month crackdown on weapons and explosives, the ministry of public security said Tuesday. Police also charged 1,794 people for illegally possessing explosives, guns or knives during that period. "From June 2 to Sep 10, police dealt with 48,393 people suspected of possessing explosives, guns or knives. Of these, 4,684 were arrested... ( gunpolicy.org )
China
China Seizes 100,000 Illegal Guns, Catches Airgun Sellers in Internet Sales
Beijing News / Xinhua / AFP / Reuters
8 September 2006
Chinese police have arrested 41 people for trafficking firearms on the internet, amid a nationwide crackdown involving the confiscation of more than 100,000 illegal guns, state press said yesterday. In the first case of online gun trading to surface in China, Beijing police have arrested three sellers and 38 potential buyers who agreed to purchase and pay for the arms over the internet, the Beijing News reported. A total... ( gunpolicy.org )
India, Bangladesh, China
Indian Gangsters Use Chinese Handguns Smuggled Through Bangladesh
Daily News & Advertiser (Mumbai)
1 September 2006
KOLKATA -- After consumer goods, cheap Chinese small arms like pistols and revolvers smuggled across the Bangladesh border have begun to find many takers among gangsters. So much so that the West Bengal police believe that these Chinese small arms smuggled into the state through the Bangladesh border at Bongaon in North 24 Parganas district have replaced the traditional home made single or two-shooter pistols or 'pipe guns' that... ( gunpolicy.org )
China
Police Seize, Destroy 26,836 Illegal Guns in China's Guangdong Province
China Daily
23 August 2006
Guangdong police have promised to continue efforts to fight the illegal possession and use of guns and deal with related criminal cases. He Guifu, director of the Social Security Department under the Guangdong Provincial Bureau of Public Security, yesterday hinted that more special campaigns would be launched to collect illegal guns and ammunition in the near future. "Such special campaigns have been aimed at ensuring good... ( gunpolicy.org )
China
China Asks Gun Toting Tourists to Bid for Rare Animal They Want to Kill
Independent (UK)
10 August 2006
BEIJING -- Visitors to China will be allowed to hunt an array of weird and wonderful wild animals, including endangered species, if they secure a hunting licence in an auction at the weekend. Would-be hunters can bid to stalk their prey in the Shaanxi, Qinghai, Gansu, Ningxia and Xinjiang provinces in western China. The only predator on the list is a wolf, and a licence to hunt man's oldest enemy is expected to sell for... ( gunpolicy.org )
China, World
China Will Auction Endangered Species Shooting Rights Only to Foreigners
Reuters
9 August 2006
BEIJING -- China is to auction licenses to foreigners to hunt wild animals, including endangered species, a newspaper said on Wednesday. The government would auction licenses based on types and numbers of wild animals, ranging from about $200 for a wolf, the only carnivore on the list, to as much as $40,000 for a yak, the Beijing Youth Daily said. The auction, taking place on Sunday in Chengdu, capital of the southwestern... ( gunpolicy.org )
China
Chinese Police Seize, Destroy Thousands of Illegal Guns in 3 Provinces
Associated Press
1 August 2006
SHANGHAI, China -- Chinese police have seized about 6,000 illegal firearms and tons of explosives in a two-month crackdown across three provinces, the government said Tuesday. About 5,500 weapons -- including pistols and hunting rifles -- were taken in the southwestern province of Sichuan, the official Xinhua News Agency said, citing a report from the Public Security Ministry. Police in Sichuan also seized 203 hand grenades,... ( gunpolicy.org )
China
Beijing Expands Gun Amnesty and Seizures, Home Made Guns 'Rampant'
China Daily
5 July 2006
Illegal firearms' owners in Beijing could be jailed for up to two years if they do not turn their weapons in by July 15, Beijing Public Security Bureau has announced. As part of a national crackdown on illegal guns launched last month, the bureau is urging the public to hand in firearms to police, including replica guns and airguns. Those who hand over weapons to police before the deadline will not be punished. Bureau... ( gunpolicy.org )
China
China Says Africa Gun Trade for Mutual Good
Reuters
27 June 2006
BEIJING -- China defended its booming trade with Africa on Tuesday after rights groups accused it of helping sustain conflicts through arms sales and commodity deals that boost the coffers of oppressive regimes. In a report issued earlier this month, Amnesty International said China was becoming one of the world's top exporters of guns and other weapons, and its customers included African governments that routinely used such arms... ( gunpolicy.org )
Sudan, China
Chinese Arms in Darfur: The Gun Runners' Twisted Trail to Africa
Reuters
19 June 2006
KHARTOUM -- In a rebel camp along the barren, windswept border between Sudan and Chad, dozens of trucks packed with dreadlocked fighters manning heavy machine guns are lined up. Piled up behind them are ammunition boxes, covered in Chinese symbols -- it's impossible to know exactly where the bullets in the boxes came from but they offer a glimpse of the complex and circuitous routes of the global arms trade. United Nations... ( gunpolicy.org )
South Africa, China
Cheap Chinese Guns Flood South Africa, Says Amnesty
Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg)
16 June 2006
A recently released report by Amnesty International (AI) says Norinco 9mm pistols, which are cheaply manufactured in China, are commonly used in cases of robbery, rape and other crimes in South Africa. The report notes that, despite South Africa's stringent Firearms Control Act of 2000, firearms are filtering into the underworld after being lost or stolen. Although the United Nations Comtrade database recorded the sale... ( gunpolicy.org )
Australia, China
Chinese Gun Maker Norinco Blamed for Illicit Trafficking in Australia
Herald Sun (Melbourne)
15 June 2006
A Chinese military company banned by the US for selling missile technology to Iran is being used in illicit weapons trafficking to Australia. An Amnesty International report released this week says firearms made by China's third largest company, Norinco, have become the weapon of choice for illicit arms dealers and traffickers. In 2001, before tighter gun laws came into effect in Australia prompted by the Port Arthur massacre,... ( gunpolicy.org )
Uganda, China
Uganda Named in China Gun Deal: Amnesty International Report
Nation Media / AND
14 June 2006
A new report by Amnesty International has named Uganda among countries receiving arms from secretive Chinese arms dealers. China is described by the report as fast emerging as one of the world's biggest, most secretive and irresponsible arms exporters. The June 11 report by the London based watchdog Amnesty International is titled China: Sustaining conflict and human rights abuses. The report says that Chinese... ( gunpolicy.org )
China
Chinese Foreign Ministry Rebuts Amnesty International Gun Exports Report
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China, Transcript
13 June 2006
Q: The human rights group Amnesty International issued a report early this week, saying that weapons exported by China to Myanmar, Sudan and Nepal fueled the local conflict. What's your comment? Does China track the exported weapon or not? How can you ensure the weapons being used properly? A: The accusation of relevant group is groundless and does not comply with fact. China adopts prudent and responsible attitude towards military... ( gunpolicy.org )
China
Gun Crime Rampant in Poorer Parts of China, 38 Million Guns Confiscated
China Daily
13 June 2006
China's gun and explosives control has made tremendous progress due to governmental strengthening of law enforcement, but illegal guns and explosives are still rampant in parts of the country, especially in the western Qinghai and Guizhou Provinces, which are less economically developed, Ministry of Public Security Security Management Bureau of Ministry director Xu Hu told reporters on June 13 according to a report by china.org.cn. ... ( gunpolicy.org )
China
Amnesty Says China Arming Human Rights Abusers
Reuters
12 June 2006
BEIJING -- China is selling arms to an array of human rights abusers such as Sudan and Myanmar to extend its trade and diplomatic reach, human rights group Amnesty International said on Monday, an accusation Beijing denied. The Amnesty report said China was becoming one of the world's top exporters of guns, anti-riot equipment and conventional weapons, and its customers included governments that routinely use such arms against their... ( gunpolicy.org )
China
Plane Gun Drama Raises Questions Over China's Flight Security
People's Daily / China Daily
7 June 2006
A near 2-hour standoff at Shanghai's Hongqiao Airport ended peacefully yesterday afternoon after a plane crew refused to take off with an armed passenger on board. Chartered by Air China, the Dragon Air Airbus A330 from Hong Kong was about to fly from Shanghai to Beijing when crew discovered the passenger, a security officer, was carrying a gun. "We were sitting waiting to take off and were already a bit delayed when we... ( gunpolicy.org )
United Nations, United States, Iran, Israel, Egypt, China, Syria, India, Pakistan, Trinidad & Tobago
Traditional Foes Hold Up UN Progress on Small Arms
Trinidad and Tobago's Newsday
22 January 2006
NEW YORK -- After two weeks of talking, governments have achieved virtually no outcome from a UN conference on controlling the proliferation and misuse of small arms. During this time, approximately 12,000 more people have died at gunpoint and many more have been injured, bereaved or denied access to livelihoods, healthcare and education because of armed violence. Usually at loggerheads on disarmament issues, the USA and Iran, Israel... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States, Austria, China, Iran
US Sanctions Steyr-Mannlicher, Norinco for Arming Iran
New York Times / International Herald Tribune
29 December 2005
New U.S. sanctions against nine foreign companies accused of aiding Iran's weapons programs could signal a harder line toward Tehran by the Bush administration and could hinder diplomatic efforts by Europe to end the standoff over Iran's nuclear program, EU officials and analysts said Wednesday. The companies include six in China, two in India, and an Austrian arms manufacturer. Reacting to the sanctions, which apply to... ( gunpolicy.org )
China
Jealous Man Shoots, Injures 16 Primary School Students
China Daily
14 October 2005
An unmarried man who envied others who had children shot and injured 16 pupils in a primary school on Wednesday morning in Guangde County, East China's Anhui Province. Seven seriously-injured students have been moved to a big hospital in Huzhou, a neighbouring city in Zhejiang Province. The condition of a seven-year-old boy shot in the chest is serious, a hospital empoloyee told China Daily. The Huzhou No 98 Hospital... ( gunpolicy.org )
China
Full Text of White Paper on Arms Control
China Daily / Xinhua
1 September 2005
China on Thursday, September 1, 2005, issued a white paper entitled China's Endeavors for Arms Control, Disarmament and Non-Proliferation to fully elaborate on the Chinese government's policies and positions on arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation. The white paper, issued at a press conference in Beijing by the State Council Information Office, comprises seven parts: Foreword, International Security and Arms Control Situation,... ( gunpolicy.org )
China, Pakistan
46 Gun Trafficking Suspects Arrested in 3 Months
China Daily
25 August 2005
Seventeen people were charged with smuggling arms from Pakistan into Xinjiang and Qinghai as the court in Northwest China's Qinghai Province heard on Tuesday. The case involved more than 900 guns and over 1,500 gun accessories, making it one of the largest arms smuggling cases the country has seen, Xinhua News Agency reported. The alleged ringleader Ma Zeying, and Li Zhi purchased guns and accessories in Pakistan between... ( gunpolicy.org )
China, Pakistan
China Charges 17 With Running Guns from Pakistan
Reuters
25 August 2005
BEIJING -- Seventeen Chinese have been charged with running guns from Pakistan in one of the largest arms-smuggling cases in China's history, state media said on Thursday. The defendants, who went on trial on Tuesday in the remote western province of Qinghai, neighboring Tibet, are accused of buying more than 900 guns and 1,500 gun accessories in Pakistan, the China Daily said. They were sold in Kashgar, in China's restive... ( gunpolicy.org )
Russia, China
Russian Customs Thwarts Ammunition Smuggling Into China
RIA Novosti
10 August 2005
NOVOSIBIRSK -- The Trans-Baikal customs office in Siberia has foiled an attempt to smuggle small arms ammunition into China, its press office said Wednesday. The customs officers at the Zabaikalsk international automobile checkpoint found a cache of ammunition in a KAMAZ truck, loaded with metal scrap, heading for China. The stash included a 1943 machinegun belt with 79 armor-piercing 7.62 mm cartridges and almost 50 tracing... ( gunpolicy.org )
China
Underground Weaponry-Making Suspects Convicted
Xinhua
20 July 2005
Twenty-two people involved in an underground weapon-making case in Hepu County of Beihai City, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, were sentenced to jail terms ranging from one year to life for gun trading, illegal gun-manufacturing and harboring. The verdicts were handed down at a first-instant trial by the Intermediate People's Court of Beihai City Tuesday. Chen Guancheng, kingpin of the underground gun-making,... ( gunpolicy.org )
China
Former Judge Arrested for Internet Gun Sales
China Daily
2 June 2005
A former judge from Langfang city in Hebei Province was reportedly arrested early last week in Beijing for allegedly selling guns and bullets illegally on the Internet. Forty-one-year-old Li Tongwen, a former judge in Yongqing County court, allegedly bought 30 guns and 1,000 bullets from Xining, capital of Northwest China's Qinghai Province, between last November and April, according to Yanzhao Metropolis Daily yesterday. He... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States, China, Iraq
Chinese Firm Linked to Smuggled AK-47s Picked to Supply Iraqi Army
Knight Ridder / Tribune (USA)
27 April 2005
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Army has approved the purchase of more than $29 million worth of weapons for the new Iraqi army from a Chinese state-owned company that's under indictment in California in connection with the smuggling of 2,000 AK-47 automatic rifles into the United States in 1996. The haul remains the largest seizure of smuggled automatic weapons in U.S. history. Army Lt. Col. Joe Yoswa, a Pentagon spokesman, said... ( gunpolicy.org )
China
UN Workshop on Small Arms, Light Weapons Held in Beijing
Xinhua
20 April 2005
BEIJING -- China is willing to join hands with the international community in eliminating the illegal trade of small arms and light weapons, said Qiao Zonghuai, a senior official with the Foreign Ministry, here Tuesday. Qiao made the remarks at a three-day United Nations Workshop onSmall Arms and Light Weapons attended by about 70 government officials and scholars from more than 30 countries and another ten international, regional... ( gunpolicy.org )
China, United Nations
Chinese Representative Calls on International Community to Step Up Cooperation in Halting Illicit Trade in Small Arms
Xinhua
18 February 2005
UNITED NATIONS -- Speaking at an open meeting of the Security Council on 17 February, Zhang Yishan, deputy permanent representative of China to the United Nations, pointed out that to solve the problem of an overflow of small arms around the globe, the international community should step up cooperation, work hard to crack down on illicit trade in small arms, and provide developing countries with necessary financial and technical aid. ... ( gunpolicy.org )
China
Chengdu Police Arrest Gun Dealers in "Biggest Bust Since 1949"
China Daily
28 January 2005
CHENGDU -- Police have confiscated 39 firearms and 579 bullets after cracking a gun-smuggling ring involving seven people. The items uncovered are the most varied and biggest in number of any bust in Chengdu, capital of Southwest China's Sichuan Province, since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, said Su Peiwei, head of the Chengdu Municipal Public Security Bureau. The probe started in the wake of a... ( gunpolicy.org )
Taiwan, China
Suspects Detained for Election Eve Shooting After Homemade Handgun Found in Home
China News Daily / AP
14 May 2004
Police said Friday they have detained three possible suspects in the March 19 shooting that lightly injured Chen Shui-bian one day before his re-election. Investigators searched the suspects' home and found a homemade handgun, gunpowder and bullets similar to the ones police think were used in the attack, investigator Wang Chong-jong told reporters. Police were also suspicious about the suspects -- two men and a woman who... ( gunpolicy.org )
China
Restrictions on Toy Guns Unconstitutional
China Post (Taiwan)
28 December 2003
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Grand justices belatedly ruled toy gun restrictions unconstitutional yesterday. In Interpretation 570, the Council of Grand Justices pointed out two executive orders forbidding the manufacturing and sale of toy guns looking like real ones ran counter to the spirit of Article 23 of the Constitution. The orders, issued on December 18, 1992, were repealed on May 8, 2002. They also prohibited the shipping,... ( gunpolicy.org )
World, United States, Russia, Europe, China, Central Asia, South Asia, South East Asia
World's Trigger-Happy Population Keeps Growing
Asia Times (Hong Kong)
29 July 2003
The international stockpile of small arms continues to grow, according to the latest edition of an annual yearbook, the Small Arms Survey group, based in Geneva. About 7 million mostly civilian small arms are produced annually, far exceeding the amount of arms removed from the weapons supply. The survey said its estimate of the global value of small-arms production remains unchanged at about US$7.4 billion -- with the United States... ( gunpolicy.org )
United States, China
US Slaps Trade Sanctions on Norinco/North China Arms
BBC News
23 May 2003
The US has imposed sanctions against a Chinese company for allegedly supplying Iran with ballistic missile technology, without providing details of the deal. The penalties will deprive one of China's largest conglomerates, North China Industries (Norinco), of annual sales in the US worth more than $100m for the next two years. China denied the US claims and called the sanctions "entirely unreasonable". US officials... ( gunpolicy.org )
China
Strict New Code for China's Policemen
Agence France Presse
1 February 2003
China will tomorrow introduce tough new rules on police who gamble, drink and violate gun laws, State press reported. The stringent new code, known as the "Five Prohibitions", will also punish officers who drink-drive and carry firearms when under the influence of alcohol, the China Daily said. Liu De, a senior official at the Beijing Public Security Bureau, said violators will be "harshly punished." As a precursor to the new regulations,... ( gunpolicy.org )
China
Beijing Signs Small Arms Protocol
Agence France Presse
11 December 2002
China's decision to sign a UN protocol on the management of small arms reflects its willingness for international co-operation, the Foreign Ministry said yesterday. The ministry's remark came a day after China's ambassador to the United Nations Wang Yingfan signed the UN Firearms Protocol on the manufacturing of and trafficking in pistols, submachine-guns, grenades and other small arms. "China has always participated in... ( gunpolicy.org )
China, United Nations
Protocol Plays Pivotal Role Against Firearms Trafficking
People's Daily (China)
10 December 2002
China recently signed The Protocol Against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition, Supplementing the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime or the Firearms Protocol for short. The negotiation of the Firearms Protocol, which commenced in Vienna in October 1999, spanned nearly a year and a half. In May last year, the Protocol was open for signature... ( gunpolicy.org )
China
Driver Shoots Teacher in Rare China Campus Killing
Reuters
27 September 2002
BEIJING -- A driver at a school in northwestern China shot dead a teacher and injured two in what appeared to be a crime of passion, state media and witnesses said on Friday. Police in Lanzhou, capital of Gansu province, shot dead Yang Zhengming after he climbed on to a roof at the Number 34 Middle School and refused to surrender despite two hours of negotiations, a teacher told Reuters. "I can not live any longer. You... ( gunpolicy.org )
China
China Orders Crackdown on Crime, Explosives Ahead of Communist Party Congress
Associated Press
5 September 2002
BEIJING -- China has ordered a crackdown on crime and tightened supervision over firearms and explosives ahead of a major Communist Party congress in November, state media reported Thursday. Public Security Minister Jia Chunwang ordered police to deepen the ongoing "Strike Hard" anti-crime campaign, which demands faster investigations and trials and permits broader use of the death penalty. "To create a safe, stable social... ( gunpolicy.org )
China
Chinese Load Up on Guns for Profit and Protection
Baltimore Sun (Maryland)
11 May 2002
LOWER YUAN FAMILY VILLAGE, China -- When a feud between villagers here and a neighboring community turned violent, people didn't turn to police for help but took matters into their own hands. The villagers made guns. Police, after all, are distrusted because of their tendency toward corruption, and local officials can be all too easily influenced by personal connections. Better, the villagers decided, to protect themselves.... ( gunpolicy.org )
China
Illegal Firearms Seized in Southeast China
Xinhua
26 March 2002
BEIJING -- A huge illegal firearms shipment case has just been cracked down in Xiamen in Southeast China's Fujian Province, the English-Language newspaper China Daily reports Tuesday. The Xiamen police said Monday the illegal shipment was discovered during a campaign targeting crimes committed on roads and highways. In the small hours of Sunday morning, police stationed on the city's Jinshang Road stopped and checked a... ( gunpolicy.org )
China
China Tallies Our Rights Record; the US and guns
National Review (USA)
18 March 2002
The government of China has just issued this year's Human Rights Record of the United States. Much of the report consists of pseudo-factoids created by Leftist interest groups, allegedly showing what a terrible country America is. The leadoff item is an extended complaint about American gun ownership. The Chinese government frets that The United States is the country with the biggest number of private guns. We are also, of course,... ( gunpolicy.org )
China, United States
China Issues US Human Rights Record in 2001
People's Daily (China)
11 March 2002
The Information Office of the State Council issued Monday a report on US human rights record in 2001, pointing out that serious human rights violations exist in the US. The article, entitled Human Rights Record of the United States in 2001, contains lots of facts and figures to show America's own human rights-related problems. The article urges the United States to give up its hegemonic practice of creating confrontation... ( gunpolicy.org )
China
Gang Crimes Record Sharp Rise in China
Kyodo News
11 March 2002
BEIJING -- China recorded a sharp rise in organized crime last year with some cases involving the sheltering of gangsters by government officials, the country's law and order chiefs said Monday. Chinese authorities uncovered 6.3 times more crimes involving criminal groups or black society organizations last year than in 2000, according to a progress report presented to China's ongoing, two-week National People's Congress (NPC) parliamentary... ( gunpolicy.org )
China
China's Efforts Against Crime Make No Dent
New York Times
26 December 2001
TAIGU, China -- On his last night alive, Chang Dongqing responded to an emergency call about an armed robbery in progress near the police station here where he worked. Because another officer had checked out the station's only gun, a 1954 series, .45-caliber semiautomatic pistol, Officer Chang picked up the long iron rod that was the station's only other weapon. Less than an hour later, he was dead, killed by a shotgun blast to... ( gunpolicy.org )
China
Guns in China: The Wild East
Economist
8 November 2001
Armed crime is rising sharply in a country that once prided itself on its law-abiding orderliness ONE midnight last month, two brothers and another man went on a killing spree with a double-barrelled shotgun in Dayukou, a mining village 500km (310 miles) south-west of Beijing. Within an hour they had killed 14 people and seriously injured three others. Among the casualties were four village officials. China once haughtily... ( gunpolicy.org )
China
China Training Air Marshals
Associated Press
14 October 2001
BEIJING -- China is creating a 2,000-member police force to fly aboard its airlines, prompted by terror attacks in the United States, a state newspaper reported Sunday. The aviation police will replace private security guards who fly on many Chinese carriers, the Beijing Youth Daily said. Citing unidentified sources, it said the new force was being formed by the Civil Aviation Authority of China, the country's airline regulator.... ( gunpolicy.org )
China
China Seizes and Destroys Over 600,000 Guns
Reuters
15 August 2001
BEIJING -- Chinese police seized and destroyed over 600,000 guns between April and June in an "unprecedented" crackdown on firearms and explosives, a Chinese newspaper said on Wednesday. Most of the guns were smuggled in from countries in Southeast Asia, made in underground Chinese workshops, or sold on the black market by security forces, said the Chinese magazine Newsweek in an article reprinted in the Writer's Digest Youth Herald.... ( gunpolicy.org )
China
Beijing Successful in Explosive, Gun Control
People's Daily (China)
10 August 2001
Over the past four months, Beijing public security departments have handled a total of 770 cases of illegal production and sale of explosives and guns. So far, over 790 offenders implicated have been dealt with according to law, and 290 of them have been arrested, according to the local public security bureau. The cases involved 2,500 kg of powder and dynamite, 12,000 detonators, 3,600 meters of fuses, 270,000 firecrackers,... ( gunpolicy.org )
China
Efforts Urged to Control Gun-, Explosive-Related Cases
The People (China)
1 August 2001
The Ministry of Public Security has called for nationwide efforts to cut down cases involving guns and explosives. At a teleconference Tuesday, Vice Minister Luo Feng said various localities should learn a lesson from last month's explosion in Shaanxi Province which killed 47 people and injured another 85. Tough measures should be taken to curb gun- and explosive-related cases from occurring according to law, he said. ... ( gunpolicy.org )
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