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While the gun laws are strict, you can get a licence for hunting or sport. Requirements include testing, demonstration of safe usage, separate safes for gun and

While the gun laws are strict, you can get a licence for hunting or sport. Requirements include testing, demonstration of safe usage, separate safes for gun and ammunition and possible random police checks on your gun and storage. Shotguns are most common. Rifles are rarer but possible with a history of ownership of a shotgun.

solarmist 4y ago
Sure, but I assume this wasn't out in the countryside either. I can't imagine it would be easy to get close with a shotgun or rifle.
- cyphar 4y ago
  It was in Nara which is a reasonably big city but has lots of surrounding rural areas. According to NHK, police are saying it may have been a shotgun (the article has been edited multiple times and it's even less sure of that then when I left my comment).
  - solarmist 4y ago
    If it was a shotgun it certainly looks modified if it's a shotgun.
    - cyphar 4y ago
      Yeah I just saw the photo. I guess that was just the first impression they had when they were asked by the news?
- kubatyszko 4y ago
  I'm not sure hunting deer in Nara is allowed (it IS known a "deer city" and deer freely roam the streets. Maybe permitted outside of the city), but of all places where someone could have a shotgun - Nara is definitely one of them.