This time, gunmen robbed watches in broad daylight, once again revealing the problem that guns are easy to flow into Hong Kong. Criminals will disassemble firearms into parts and send them into Hong Kong by mail for reassembly, making it difficult for law enforcement officers to prevent the entry of firearms, and crimes involving firearms also occur from time to time. Among them, in June of this year, the South Asian Corps engaged in infighting and beheaded people in the downtown area of Central. The guns involved have not yet been recovered.
In recent years, criminals have broken up firearms into pieces, smuggled them by air parcels, and packaged them into other products for customs declaration to avoid regulation. Customs seized 13 cases of illegal firearms, firearm accessories and ammunition in 2021, a decrease of 65% compared to 2020. In order to combat related problems, the Customs established the first firearms search dog team last year. The Hong Kong Government also amended the Firearms and Ammunition (Firearms Declaration) Regulation 2021 earlier to include the components of real guns including barrel, chamber, bullet wheel, gun Frames, gun bodies, receivers, etc., are included in the definition of “firearms” regulated by the law. Anyone who violates the relevant regulations, upon conviction, can be fined up to 100,000 yuan and imprisoned for 14 years.
Among them, the Central shooting incident on June 10 is particularly impressive. When a white seven-passenger car was driving along Wyndham Street, a private car drove by and jumped out of several knives and slashed at the seven-passenger car. Another van rammed into the knifeman and fled down Albert Road in the chaos. The knifeman continued to besiege the seven-person vehicle. Soon, gunshots were heard at the scene, and the knifeman fled immediately. In the case, 3 men were injured, including a non-Chinese man with a gunshot wound to the abdomen. A total of 17 men were arrested. It has been more than two months since the incident occurred. Although the police and inter-departmental personnel have made high-profile inspections at the gathering places of South Asian people for many consecutive nights, and offered a bonus of 250,000 yuan, unfortunately, no guns and shooters have been found so far.