In modern times, the Chinese people have a large number of weapons ranging from old-fashioned firearms such as shotguns and cannons to machine guns and rifles. The number and types of civilian weapons are related to factors such as the level of economic development in each region, the level of public security, the difficulty of purchasing weapons, and folk customs. There are a huge number of civilian weapons in Guangdong, Northeast China and other regions, and new guns and guns have become the industrial metal products with the largest number of civilian possessions. Vigilante groups and bandits are the two groups with the most weapons besides the military and police. This book discusses the situation and causes of the proliferation of civilian weapons, militia weapons, bandit weapons, the attitudes of various classes and strata towards civilian weapons, the military and political authorities' countermeasures against civilian weapons, foreign factors behind arms trafficking, the relationship between civilian weapons and "state" and "society", etc. It has reference value for the research fields of modern Chinese social history, military history, revolutionary history and other fields.
