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Beijing Destroys Illegal Guns
Beijing destroyed more than 20,000 illegal guns Thursday morning as part of the efforts to strike hard against the city's rising crime rate.
According to a spokesman with the Beijing Public Security Bureau, the guns are part of the 40,000 illegal weapons confiscated throughout the city since 1996, when the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Control of Firearms was implemented.
The move was also one of the largest-scale in terms of the number of guns destroyed among the city's three gun round-ups since 1997.
China's firearms control law forbids all units and individuals to hold, manufacture, trade in, transport, hire out or loan firearms.
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