No the problem IS getting even one gun.  If no one other than the police and
the Yakuza
own handguns (and some might say they are branches of the same thing!)...
just exactly
how do you think someone is going to get a handgun?  Japanese people aren't
known
for thinking outside the box... the rules (society and otherwise) say you
can't get them,
then it can't be done.  Linguistically... to be different is the same as to
be wrong... Chigau.

I'm going to quote Slacker here when this very question came up on All
the Small Things chapter 5:

"All right, I'll give you this one, as I don't know of any permits that
might allow you to carry a gun. It's illegal as all hell in Japan.

However....

So is owning a sword. And carrying a bokken and waving it around in
public is DEFNITELY illegal. Strapping a five-foot long spatula to your
back, along with a bandoleer of throwing spatulas across your chest,
both of which are OBVIOUSLY intended as weapons? Illegal."

Can we drop this, please?  Considering the cultural contradictions in
Japanses society (I am *not* going to elaborate on this list, I don't
been like getting postbanned again) I see no problem in believing that
someone could get a gun or two, no matter what the laws say.

(note: I'm not saying America doesn't have contradictions too, just
pointing out that Japan does.  we do...Oh man do we ever)
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