>>660528
>The Japanese didn't get their guns back until 'murrica in the form of Commodore Perry reminded the Japanese government that they faced bigger potential threats than pissed of Japanese peasants with matchlocks. You're welcome
Perry was merely a knock at the door- Japan knew it had to pull up its trousers by the time China had lost the Opium wars. If anything the British are to thank for this. because I know you Americans hate not having all the credit Also Noel Perrin is a terrible, unsourced mess of a writer, and a complete and utter libshit retard, and no more trustworthy than anything I post on this godforsaken Burmese bridge building forum.
Anyhow, the Edo period wasn't a period of monolithic laws or rule; this was also the case in gun laws during this time, where it saw different iterations in varying strictness in the control and management of firearms among non-warrior class peoples, and in different locales. Such iterations can be largely be divided into three eras and three great teppo-aratame (the post for monitoring and checking guns owned by ordinary people). I base this off the book from picrel, 鉄砲と日本人 (teppo to nihonjin - Guns and the Japanese) written by the fantastic historian Suzuki Masaya who went through various available records regarding guns, especially within the Kanto region through the start of the Edo period to the end of the Meiji period.
1. 1662
To regulate firearms and to consolidate defences around the Edo region, the sort of gun control measures that Toyotomi had placed in Osaka (i.e. wooden permission tags from regional lords) were applied to dedicated hunters (not to the general peasentry) within the Eight Kanto regions that surround Edo. This however, was ignored by some lords and permission (or rather turning a blind eye) was given to the peasantry.
During this period, a post for monitoring guns was set within Edo castle, and the first mass check of the number of guns
2. 1687
These gun control measures were then applied to the entirety of the Shogunate rule, but the largely unpopular decision to limit the ownership of guns to hunters was reverted so that the peasentry could own 1) firearms for self defence, 2)firearms that fired blanks so as to scare animals away, and 3) firearms for hunting along with various caveats such as having to file the length of the barrel and any repairs or modifications to the local lord.
From 1687 to 1709 was during the period of Tsunayoshi's rule, a time where every poor fucker had to become a vegan because the Shogun was a paranoid cuckboi who believed in the buddhist monk when he said he had to ban killing animals or his rule would be fucked or some other gay shit like that. So during that time only hunters who needed to gather fur were allowed to fire bullets, while the peasants were relegated to using guns as glorified party crackers to scare animals away. This was largely in theory, so there are numerous speculations that guns were used in their usual manner away from the Shogunate rule.
In 1717 the second round of gun checks was taken place; during this time, it was found that many firearms were owned without explicit approval and modifications and barrel lengths had changed (the latter had more to do with people replacing worn out guns by buying new guns and not reporting it).
3 1729
It was decided that the types of guns the peasantry could use where 1) guns for self defence, 2) guns for scaring off animals, 3) two-season (April~July) varmint guns, 4) four-season (Feb~Nov) hunting guns against beasts like bears/wolves/hogs etc 5) hunting guns for hunters.
In 1838 the last round of gun checks by the Edo shogunate took place showing that over the last one hundred years, these gun laws had become a mere formality, and much of the guns used by the peasantry were unlicensed and were widespread, and local lords didn't really care about reporting such issues. IF anything, there was a silent agreement between the peasantry and lordship to not use firearms when there was ever a rebellion or protest.