Chinese police cracked down on online gun smuggling in a recent campaign, making 202 arrests and seizing 223 guns. During the campaign, police officers in south China's Guangdong Province destroyed several gun-making dens and arrested members of six cross-border gun smuggling gangs. "These gangs bought guns from Hong Kong shops and employed passengers to carry them into the Chinese mainland. Then they delivered the guns by mail to buyers all over the country," said police officer Tang Peng. According to the Chinese criminal law, individual citizens are not allowed to possess firearms. People who engage in illegal manufacturing, trade, transport, mailing, and storage of guns, ammunition and explosives will be sentenced to three to ten years in prison. Those who seriously violate the firearms ownership law will be sentenced to over ten years in prison, life imprisonment, or even death.