>>2793779
>It’s funny, I recently learned that samurai swords are actually banned in japan…. All this time I thought, like, everyone had one hanging over their fireplace.
Kinda. Technically, blades that are made with traditional materials and methods are considered "works of art" or "cultural objects" and therefore not weapons; it's sort of like a gun being C&R eligible. Japan passed laws banning long blades in the 1950s because shin-gunto (those crappy mass produced swords made for the military in the 30s and 40s) were featuring pretty regularly in violent crime but swords as a whole were too culturally important to just do away with entirely so they left a loophole. Prices for "genuine nippon steel folded mirrion times" swords with the paperwork to prove it range from about ~$3400 USD for blades with marginal collector interest to millions of dollars for important artifacts and katana from well-known smiths (contemporary or otherwise) generally start at the price of a new car.

>>2793680
Japan is one of those places where the government reacts to notable incidents by banning shit and people tend to just accept it.
>Caustic chemicals get used during strikes and gang fights in the 60s-80s
Ding-dong bannu
>Aum Shinrikyo creates a giant sarin factory
Ding-dong bannu
>Man takes revenge on the ex-PM with homemade gunpowder
Ding-dong bannu.

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