A Thriving Trade: Global Legal Small Arms Transfers

1 Mapping the Small Arms Trade

In recent years, researchers have increasingly turned their attention to the proliferation of small arms, a transnational trade amounting to over $7 billion in value during 2002. Small arms are difficult to track and are not the stuff of military parades, but they are immensely destructive. The trade in small arms should be understood not as a market but as a network, one that shares some impor...

Small Arms Supplies to Conflict Zones

zones include an important ‘ant trade’, a small but steady trickle of weapons that can produce large accumulations over time. Addressing large international transfers to conflict zones—involving many hundreds of weapons or millions of rounds of ammunition—is a high priority on the international small arms agenda. This chapter focuses on the role of the many different sources of supply in a sele...

Global Trade in Small Arms: Health Effects and Interventions

The Authorized Global Small Arms and Light Weapons Trade: Annual Update

Taxation of the arms trade: An overview of the issues

A number of proposals for a tax on the international trade with weapons have been made during the last 20 years. Originally, the major objectives were both to reduce the level of trade in arms and raise money for purposes such as development and disarmament. Later proposals focused on the compensation of victims of the use of specific types of weapons. Various objections have been raised agains...