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If the hypothetical nation/planet/whatever polity is mostly peaceful, people might never see firearms except at military parades or in books but other weapons would be basically ubiquitous used for defense and hunting
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A mostly peaceful nation/planet has no need for weapons for defense either.
But sure, even now the majority of weapons are probably sporting equipment, not for killing people. But note that nobody needs to *improve* bows for that. You can't buy armor piercing or explosive or whatever arrows unless bows are being used to kill people in armor, and that's never going to make much sense if guns are available at all.
It's a genre convention you are trying to put a bit of plausibility gloss on, but it's never going to be very plausible, so don't contort the back story too much in the effort to provide more than a little gloss. For instance that militias with bows - guns are illegal but privately raised armies are OK - is going to need a *seriously* contorted back story.