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猟銃等講習会(初心者講習)考査

Firearms beginner course knowledge test

The test at the end of the beginner firearms course, the gate to owning a firearm in Japan.

The exam

Set by
Prefectural Public Safety Commissions, run by the prefectural police
The paper
A lecture followed by a written true/false test; the pass mark is high
How it is sat
About monthly in each prefecture; the course is itself the exam
Where
Japan, in Japanese

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