Is recurve bow illegal?

Public Security Administration of the Ministry of Public Security: Non-mechanical bow and arrow equipment (recurve bow, compound bow) does not belong to the management category of public security organs, and it is not necessary to go through the formalities with the public security organs for manufacture, sale, purchase, possession and use.

Mechanical bow and arrow equipment, such as crossbow (also known as mechanical crossbow and crossbow machine) is a kind of equipment with strong lethality, which belongs to the goods strictly controlled by the state.

According to the decision of the State Council in 2004 to set up administrative license for the administrative examination and approval items that really need to be retained;

Mechanical bow and arrow equipment, such as crossbow (also known as mechanical crossbow and crossbow machine), is a kind of equipment with strong lethality and has some functions and characteristics of guns and controlled knives. If it is not strictly controlled and managed, it is easy to be used by criminals and endanger public safety, which belongs to the goods strictly controlled by the state. The manufacture, sale, import, transportation and use of crossbows or commercial shooting ranges to set up crossbow shooting projects must be approved by the public security departments and bureaus of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, and the administrative department for industry and commerce shall register with the approval documents of the public security departments and bureaus. It may be because crossbows shoot more like guns, and compared with ordinary people, crossbows are more likely to cause serious harm to others than bows and arrows. In fact, the young Xiong Haizi pulled open a 20-pound sliding bow with a target arrow, which was quite scary. But the young Xiong Haizi committed suicide with a crossbow of dozens of pounds. Above all, archery is at least a serious sport. There are recurve bow competitions in the Olympic Games and recurve bow and compound bows in the World Archery Championships. ACAC and APCC, which are relatively professional traditional bows, light bows and compound bows, are more easily accepted by people. Again, if you really want to die, it is quite dangerous to count all kinds of equipment that can be used as weapons (including but not limited to bows and arrows, crossbows, javelins and whips). I hope everyone will abide by the law, exercise scientifically and protect themselves and others.

Non-mechanical bow and arrow equipment (recurve bow, compound bow) does not belong to the management category of public security organs, and there is no need to go through the formalities with public security organs in manufacturing, selling, purchasing, holding and using. Mechanical bow and arrow equipment, such as crossbow (also known as mechanical crossbow and crossbow machine), is a kind of equipment with strong lethality and belongs to items strictly controlled by the state. 1999, the Ministry of Public Security and the State Administration for Industry and Commerce jointly issued the Notice on Strengthening the Management of Crossbows (No.Gong Zhi [1999] 1646), explicitly requiring public security organs at all levels to bring crossbows into the scope of public security management and earnestly strengthen related management. In 2004, the Decision of the State Council Municipality on Setting Administrative Permissions for Administrative Examination and Approval Items that Need to Be Preserved retained the administrative permission of the public security organs of the provincial people's governments to manufacture, sell, import, transport and use crossbows. Therefore, the use of crossbows is limited to special needs such as competitive crossbow shooting activities and commercial shooting ranges. Units or individuals are not allowed to buy and use crossbows because of the needs of commercial activities.