It is never wrong to post a picture like that on Samizdata!

Some years ago I visited Hawaii with my parents, during the height of Japanese travel and economic power. A block away from the condo we were renting was a place called the Gun Club of Hawaii, with wording in both English and Japanese. We saw a number of Japanese tourists entering the place.

Like any good American who grew up during WW2, my mother was suspicious of Japanese interest in arms, especially in Honolulu. She had, after all, just visited the USS Arizona memorial at Pearl Harbor.

I eventually found out the truth. The Gun Club of Hawaii is just a shooting gallery. Japanese tourists, who back home would never get near a firearm, could now travel to the Wild, Wild West and shoot a real six-pistol and get their picture taken to impress their friends.

She's certainly...well armed.

That's in South Korea I presume? What are gun laws like there? Better than countries like the UK, North Korea etc I'll bet...

The writing on the picture appears to be Japanese not Korean.
I have spent some time in both countries, and there are also significant communites of both around were I live, while I cannot read either language I can usually recognize them when I see them.
From what I understand Japan has some of the most restrictive gun laws in the world.

The photograph was taken in Korea. I think the writing is a less dense form of the Korean script than is usual, although I don't understand Korean or Japanese either.

The writing is almost certainly Korean, especially if the picture was taken in Korea.

I can read (ie, sound out) normal Korean writing, as well as Katakana and some Hiragana. Most of the symbols in the writing are easily-recognizable Korean. They certainly are not Hiragana or Katakana. The odd-looking symbols are probably just some unusual cases I've not seen before, or maybe an unusual "font".

Nothing crass about that picture at all.

I see a young woman who's not going to end up as some rapist's next fantasy fulfilment.

Or something like that.

Definitely Korean script. SteveF, which letters look weird to you? It looks like one of the regular stylizations of printed hangul to me.

21 세기 최고외 리포츠- 실탄사격
21 se-ki ch'oe-ko-ŭi re-po-ch'ŭ - shil-t'an-sa-pyŏg

My romanization might be a bit off--like SteveF, though I recognize Hangul (Korean script) and Kana (Japanese syllabic script) and a bit of Hanja/Kanji (Chinese characters adopted into Korean and Japanese, respectively), I barely know either language.

However, Google Language Tools was able to do something:

21 centurial highest external [li] guns [chu] - live ammunition practice