The Diet enacted legal amendments Friday to ban the possession of double-edged knives and tighten gun-ownership rules in response to a series of violent crimes involving the weapons.
The move marks the first revision in 46 years to the 1958 Firearm and Sword Control Law and the first change in 28 years to the rules governing gun ownership.
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