Japan’s parliament on Friday enacted a bill to revise the Firearms and Swords Control Law to ban online explanations of ways to manufacture guns and encouraging unlawful possession of such weapons, making such acts punishable.
The bill was approved at the day's plenary meeting of the House of Councilors, the upper chamber of the country's Diet. The bill passed the House of Representatives, the lower chamber, in April.
Japan is beefing up regulations on homemade guns after the suspect in the fatal shooting of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in July 2022 apparently used a gun created with the aid of online tutorials.
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