“Oppressive” Gun Ban Fail: Politician sniped from above in Japan?

“No one shall possess a firearm or firearms or a sword or swords.”-Japanese law, however, after a long permitting procedure a person can own a single-fire gun designed for hunting or sport-shooting (you must first own a shotgun for ten years without incident before owning a rifle)

In 1992, the U.S. Department of Justice republished an article calling Japan’s anti-gun laws “Oppressive”, and that “Japan’s strict gun-control laws are unfair and oppressive; although some people assert that Japan’s low crime rate is due to gun control, it is actually due to Japan’s culture.”

In the past few years, I’ve posted many examples of how Japan’s anti-gun and anti-knife laws are massive failures. On 08JUL2022, former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo (in Japan the family name comes first, then the ‘given’ name) was shot twice in the neck during a Liberal Democratic Party political campaign event, he died about four hours later in the Nara Medical University.

Japan’s official government sponsored television broadcaster NHK (Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai, Japan Broadcasting Corporation), says police believe the gun was homemade. The alleged shooter has been arrested, and has served three years with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.

At a press conference doctors revealed that Abe Shinzo was probably killed instantly, claims that he was shot in the neck with the bullets ending up in the heart (sniper attack from above?), admit that despite invasive surgery they could not find any bullets: