On February 5, 2025, according to Sing Tao Daily, the government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region intended to revise the Firearms Order and Munitions to implement the United Nations Convention against organized crime transnational on the fightManufacturing and illegal traffic in firearms and their partsThe additional protocol further improves the management of components and gunshot ammunition in Hong Kong.
The Legislative Council Security Committee discussed the relevant agreements yesterday. in prison.
At the same time, unless a firearm is made in a commercial or commercial manner and a commercial license, anyone who makes a firearm or ammunition will be guilty of illegal manufacture of a firearm. He stressed that if3D printing to make real pistolsIt is also possible to touch the law. The government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region plans to submit a bill to the legislative council in April of this year.
At the meeting of the legislative council yesterday, Deng Bingqiang said that over the past five years, Hong Kong had seized 12 cases involving full firearms and seized 31 firearms; Find. He also mentioned that customs have done a lot of work to suppress these weapons or accessories, using technological means, including megadonts and artificial intelligence, to identify plots in high -risk areas or stores, and To strengthen random inspections depending on the risk.
3D printing of real cannons is the crime of illegal manufacturing of firearms
Wu Jiezhuang, member of the electoral commission, has noticed that because of the rapid development of technology,3D printingAnd artificial intelligence technology has become popular, allowing people with criminal intention to download online tutorials to build firearms or secret workshops, asking the authorities if there is a way to collect information and fight against these crimes.
Deng Bingqiang replied,3D printing technologyEssentially, it is a technical means. can be managed in accordance with the law.
Advisers pay attention to the question of whether the modified air guns are included in the regulations
Another member of the electoral commission, Zhou Wengang, focused on how to define “manufacturing” and asked whether the modifications were also a type of manufacturing. He gave an example to say that some air pistols are almost not different from the real pistols after being modified and if they are also “made”. He also mentioned that the relevant laws of Singapore stipulated that only 10 firearms or more are illegal weapons, and how does Hong Kong define this?
Deng Bingqiang replied that “manufacturing” includes not only manufacturing, but also assembly, stressing that legal intention is to target those who make real firearms, in order to prevent real firearms to flow on the underground market. As for the modification of firearms, he declared that they are not regulated by the Guns protocol, but the current laws in Hong Kong stipulate that the modification of firearms to real firearms is illegal. As for illegal arms trafficking, he stressed that in Hong Kong, a firearm is already illegal.
The proposal for modification also includes the requirement according to which during the manufacture of a firearm, the name of the manufacturer, the country of manufacturing and the serial number must be marked on the firearm; .
