An Yang sat on the sofa. When the little fox spotted him while wandering upstairs, she came down to pour him a glass of water, then went back upstairs to cultivate.
He was still deep in thought.
Why did China have no private weapons manufacturers, while in the United States, weapons could be manufactured by companies and then purchased by the U.S. government through approved orders?
Many people naturally assumed that Chinese law did not permit private weapons manufacturers to exist. This view had a certain basis, since China regulated weapons and did not allow ordinary civilians to possess firearms, ammunition, or controlled knives.
These two matters were to some extent mutually influential.
However, the law prohibiting citizens from possessing firearms and weapons did not fully represent a "ban on private enterprises conducting weapons research and development under state authorization and regulation." In the United States, for example, citizens were generally only allowed to possess "self-defense" weapons, not "destructive" weapons. Yet private enterprises could still research and develop tanks, fighter jets, warships, and aircraft carriers under state authorization.
For example, the famous F-22 Raptor fighter jet was jointly developed and produced by Lockheed Martin Corporation and Boeing Company. The even more powerful Nimitz-class aircraft carriers of the United States were manufactured by Newport News Shipbuilding, the largest private shipyard in the United States, located in Newport News, Virginia.
Therefore, not allowing citizens to possess something did not necessarily mean private enterprises could not research and manufacture it...
In fact, quite a few countries around the world had private arms manufacturers. China also had no explicit law stipulating that private enterprises could not manufacture modern weapons. It was just that when someone applied to the state for the qualifications to manufacture arms, they would be met with the sort of look