From: "Patrick J. Daly" <daly@xionics.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 11:23:09 -0500
To: firearms-alert@shell.portal.com
Subject: Japan & others to submit global gun control plan at UN conference


In case you haven't seen thins before.....

Global Gun Control.   According to the
Washington Times, Japan has assembled
a coalition of more than 20 nations to
press for "global controls to curb illegal
trade in firearms...." Japan has a nation-
alized police force and one of the strict-
est gun control polices in the world. The
Japanese government claims that more
than 90 percent of the guns which are
tracked down by the country's law en-
forcement agencies have been smuggled
in from abroad.
  Japanese government sources told the
Times that "efficient countermeasures
cannot be designed without interna-
tional support." Accordingly, the Japa-
nese Foreign Ministry and National
Police Agency will submit a plan for
global firearms control to the UN con-
ference on crime prevention, which will
be held in Cairo this April.
  It is worth noting that the Japanese
proposal would set the stage for global
"harmonization" of gun laws in favor of
those nations-like Japan-which es-
sentially ban private firearms ownership.

New American / February 6, 1995