338:(b) "Light weapons" are, broadly speaking, weapons designed for use by two or three persons serving as a crew, although some may be carried and used by a single person. They include, inter alia, general purpose or universal machine guns, medium machine guns, heavy machine guns, rifle grenades, under-barrel grenade launchers and mounted grenade launchers, portable anti-aircraft guns, portable anti-tank guns, recoilless rifles, man portable launchers of anti-tank missile and rocket systems, man portable launchers of anti-aircraft missile systems, and mortars of a calibre of less than 100 millimetres.
387:(ATT) to govern the legal international trade in many types of conventional weapons, from warships and aircraft to small arms and light weapons. A basic obligation of the treaty is that all States Parties should establish or maintain controls in the area. In this way, the treaty also helps the international community to address unregulated or illegal trade in conventional weapons. The treaty opened for signature on 3 June 2013. To date, two-thirds of UN member states have signed the treaty (130 states), and 72 have ratified it. The treaty entered into force on 24 December 2014.
350:(importation and export), and in the standardization of laws, protocols and sharing of law enforcement information and best practices across nations to prevent illicit arms sales. They also focus on terrorism, arms proliferation as a humanitarian concern, disarmament in the face of extreme violence, and cases of ameliorating anarchy, civil war and international conflict. SALW provisions are generally not oriented towards imposing or enforcing domestic national or local legislation of legitimate gun ownership or sale.
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any man-portable lethal weapon that expels or launches, is designed to expel or launch, or may be readily converted to expel or launch a shot, bullet or projectile by the action of an explosive, excluding antique small arms and light weapons or their replicas. Antique small arms and light weapons and
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and light weapons are used in conflicts around the world, causing injury and death. Small arms control was first broached by UN Resolution A/RES/46/36 (December 1991), which was expanded upon by A/RES/50/70 (January 1996). This latter resolution mandated a panel of experts to research the type of
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small arms and light weapons being used in the world's conflicts and to study which weapons might apply to fall under an arms control regime. The recommendations of expert reports returned to the
General Assembly, A/52/298 (1997) and A/54/258 (1999) led to a July 2001
320:(Programme of Action, or PoA) and the International Instrument to Enable States to Identify and Trace, in a Timely and Reliable Manner, Illicit Small Arms and Light Weapons (International Tracing Instrument, or ITI), where only the Firearms Protocol is legally binding.
335:(a) "Small arms" are, broadly speaking, weapons designed for individual use. They include, inter alia, revolvers and self-loading pistols, rifles and carbines, sub-machine guns, assault rifles and light machine guns;
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376:(UNODA), though the UN Coordinating Action on Small Arms (CASA) mechanism, which comprises 21 UN departments and agencies working on different aspects of small arms and light weapons control. The
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hands. U.S. civilians alone account for 393 million (about 46 percent) of the worldwide total of civilian held firearms. This amounts to "120.5 firearms for every 100 residents." The world's
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Council passed Resolution 2117, which urged nations to remain committed to small arms embargoes and SALW control protocols.
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In contrast, the term "heavy weapons" generally refers to any other weapon systems that are too cumbersome for foot transportation and hence have to rely on
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their replicas will be defined in accordance with domestic law. In no case will antique small arms and light weapons include those manufactured after 1899:
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control about 133 million (about 13 percent) of the global total of small arms, of which over 43 percent belongs to two countries – the
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Nations Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects
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control about 22.7 million (about 2 percent) of the global total of small arms.
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Estimating Global
CivilianHELD Firearms Numbers. Aaron Karp. June 2018
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Small Arms Survey reveals: More than one billion firearms in the world
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611:"General and complete disarmament: Transparency in armaments"
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on 8 December 2005, defines small arms and light weapons as:
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515:. United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. 25 February 2013
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United
Nations Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms
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Work on SALW via the United Nations is coordinated by the
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protocols to two main classes of man-portable weapons.
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555:. United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs. 2013
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892:United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research
378:United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research
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887:United Nations Coordinating Action on Small Arms
595:: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (
3234:Small Arms & Light Weapons (SALW)
575:"4.11 SALW Control, Security & Development"
825:at the Federation of American Scientists (FAS)
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577:. Archived from the original on 30 April 2009
304:Definition by international legal conventions
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253:under 100 millimetres (3.9 in) caliber.
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257:Small Arms and Light Weapons also include
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354:United Nations SALW control efforts
27:Two classes of man-portable weapons
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749:"United Nations Treaty Collection"
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840:Coordinating Action on Small Arms
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617:. United Nations. 15 January 1996
391:Global distribution of small arms
366:, with a follow-up in July 2006.
247:man-portable air-defense systems
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325:United Nations General Assembly
243:man-portable anti-tank missiles
679:
629:
527:
434:List of most-produced firearms
374:Office for Disarmament Affairs
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3099:Firearms by country
3014:Civilian Marksmanship Program
816:Arms Sales Monitoring Project
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829:Small Arms and Light Weapons
223:underslung grenade launchers
199:general-purpose machine guns
62:Small arms and light weapons
7:
3270:Federal Assault Weapons Ban
3168:Campaign Against Arms Trade
865:"small arms" search results
422:
231:automatic grenade launchers
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3224:High-capacity magazine ban
2350:Mean time between failures
858:Mines Advisory Group (MAG)
413:People's Republic of China
141:designated marksman rifles
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300:for effective operation.
239:rocket-propelled grenades
879:22 February 2014 at the
661:"Resolution 2117 (2013)"
417:Law enforcement agencies
323:The ITI, adopted by the
278:fixed mounting platforms
157:personal defense weapons
3254:by U.S. state
2664:Overpressure ammunition
2599:Improved Military Rifle
2305:Circular error probable
1224:Personal defence weapon
723:"The Arms Trade Treaty"
411:(30.3 million) and the
161:squad automatic weapons
2948:Civilian gun ownership
2477:Firing (Shooting)
729:. United Nations. 2013
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58:
2422:Handgun effectiveness
2355:Minute of Angle (MOA)
2231:Ballistic coefficient
1207:Semi-automatic pistol
835:Control Arms campaign
821:13 April 2019 at the
693:on 23 September 2009.
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145:short-barreled rifles
35:
3039:in the United States
2697:Armour piercing
2258:Rangefinding/keeping
2170:Push/Controlled feed
1962:Synchronization gear
1697:Blank-firing adapter
1548: or famous
191:anti-materiel rifles
3131:Privately made
3094:Firearm brands
2980:State firearms
2960:Exhibition shooting
2943:Celebratory gunfire
2802:Plastic tipped
2732:High explosive
2253:Physics of firearms
874:SALW Knowledge Base
845:30 May 2019 at the
800:smallarmssurvey.org
783:smallarmssurvey.org
759:on 14 November 2012
687:"CASA Participants"
203:medium machine guns
3229:Right to bear arms
3175:Featureless rifles
3121:Improvised firearm
3082:3D printed firearm
2970:United States
2865:Fully powered
2772:Total metal jacket
2412:Stock measurements
1135:Underwater firearm
1031: versus
649:on 8 October 2011.
409:Russian Federation
207:heavy machine guns
180:incendiary devices
178:kinetic firearms,
165:light machine guns
91:. These include:
86:kinetic projectile
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869:Small Arms Survey
454:Arms Trade Treaty
444:Small Arms Survey
397:Small Arms Survey
385:Arms Trade Treaty
314:Firearms Protocol
308:According to the
235:recoilless rifles
227:grenade launchers
189:. These include:
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1774:Flash suppressor
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