Taiwan confiscates 2,200 guns ahead of polls
Sunday, 8 January 2012
TAIPEI, Jan 7, (AFP): Taiwanese authorities have confiscated more than 2,200 guns in a bid to thwart election-related crime in the run-up to next week's presidential and legislative polls, a report said Saturday.
Prosecutor-general Huang Shyh-ming was quoted by the state Central News Agency as saying that he was determined to prevent any shooting incidents that would affect the elections and "disgrace Taiwan's democracy."
He was referring to two election-eve shootings in 2004 and 2010, which were said to have swayed the close polls with the losing side crying foul.