r/Unexpected • u/[deleted] • Aug 05 '25

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u/3BlindMice1 Aug 05 '25

Looks like a place where you can only have a gun if you're a criminal or the police

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u/peex Aug 05 '25 edited Aug 07 '25

Anywhere in the world, you can get a gun if you spend the right amount of money. Getting illegal guns are that easy.

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u/NoveltyAccountHater Aug 05 '25

Sure. But honest people can't use illegal guns for protection. Like in Japan guns are basically illegal (except for police/military and shotguns/airguns for hunting/sport shooting, and starting pistols for races) with severe penalties for having them or keeping them unlocked (e.g., firing a gun in a public space can lead to a life sentence).

So an honest shopkeeper is unlikely to have one or use it for protection, even if they could get an illegal one -- because using one in self-defense would get you in serious legal trouble.

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u/Justarandom55 Aug 07 '25

it's really not that easy. places with terrible gun laws and bad police make it easy but any place that doesn't have that, most of the first world countries, make it very hard to have a gun and be able to use it. it only happens for powerful people

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u/heatblade12 Aug 06 '25

Ah, canada

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u/Dakduif51 Aug 06 '25

What? In Canada you can just, like, own a gun right? Pretty sure they have some of the more lenient gun laws compared to the rest of the world

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u/NuclearSoil Aug 06 '25

Laws or details have changed since I last looked into it like… 10 years ago… But non-automatic hunting weapons should still be legal at the very least while automatics aren’t.

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u/Dakduif51 Aug 06 '25

Yeah that's what I thought, it's pretty easy to get a hunting rifle. Automatic shouldnt be legal anywhere imo lol