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US demand fuels spike in small arms trade: UN survey
AFP on Yahoo ^ | 7/9/09 | Denis Rousseau

Posted on 07/09/2009 1:08:17 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

GENEVA (AFP) – Ballooning US demand and the handgun's surge in popularity drove up the global trade in small arms by more than a quarter between 2000 and 2006, a UN-backed study showed Thursday.

Those weapons in the hands of civilians, security forces or armed groups were behind the deaths of 450,000 people, said the authors of the Small Arms Survey 2009.

Pistols, revolvers, rifles and heavy machine guns accounted for 60 percent of deaths through intentional violence of any kind, including the use of bombs, knives or bare hands, whether in conflicts or crime, the experts said.

By 2006, the legal market for small arms and light weapons was worth 2.9 billion dollars (2.1 billion euros), a leap of more than 650 million dollars, said the survey, based on customs data collected by the UN from 53 countries.

Demand from the United States alone was responsible for 48 percent of the worldwide increase in imports, it found.

The real figure for the total global market was most likely to be above four billion dollars, once flawed controls and a lack of transparency in some countries were taken into account, according to the survey.

"Current data shows the global trade in small arms and light weapons is robust and even expanding, and that handguns are driving it," said survey programme director Keith Krause.

"We don't know whether these weapons are destined for civilians, police or military forces. But it is striking that handguns have outpaced all other small arms and light weapons over the period."

The United States was by far the biggest importer of pistols and revolvers, accounting for 54 percent or 173 million dollars of imports over the six year period.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: banglist; demand; fuels; smallarms; spike; unitednations
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1 posted on 07/09/2009 1:08:17 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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Ballooning US demand.. hmmm.

Obama and the Left rising a driving factor?


2 posted on 07/09/2009 1:10:05 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard)
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United States Marks International Small Arms Destruction Day

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2009/july/125870.htm

Bureau of Public Affairs
Office of the Spokesman
Washington, DC
July 9, 2009

The United States is pleased to join in observing International Small Arms Destruction Day, initiated by the United Nations in 2001, as part of the United States’ ongoing efforts to reduce armed violence and support the rule of law around the world.

Since 2001, the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs has invested over $110 million dollars to help destroy over 1.3 million small arms and 50,000 tons of ammunition and other conventional weapons around the world, plus over 30,000 at-risk man-portable air-defense systems (MANPADS) that might have posed a threat to global aviation when in the hands of terrorists or insurgents.

The United States takes this opportunity to call for all States to continue implementing relevant UN and regional instruments on the illicit trade in SA/LW such as, amongst others: the UN Program of Action on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects; The International Instrument on Tracing of SA/LW; and recommendations made by the UN Group of Governmental Experts to consider further steps to enhance international cooperation in preventing, combating and eradicating illicit brokering in small arms and light weapons.

To learn more about the Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement’s small arms/light weapons and other conventional weapons destruction efforts, and about its closely related humanitarian mine action programs, visit www.state.gov/t/pm/wra.

PRN: 2009/698


3 posted on 07/09/2009 1:12:04 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard)
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To: NormsRevenge

If there were no guns, there would be no murders is what the article is suggesting. I wonder what caliber Cain was packing when he slew Able?


4 posted on 07/09/2009 1:13:06 PM PDT by BipolarBob (It takes a Kenyan village to raise a US president.)
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To: BipolarBob

I think he was packing a ‘Light Weapon’.


5 posted on 07/09/2009 1:14:22 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard)
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To: NormsRevenge

I buy my heavy machine guns at Costco.


6 posted on 07/09/2009 1:14:36 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: NormsRevenge

I need more guns. I did not realize there were 450,000 murders on the loose.


7 posted on 07/09/2009 1:17:04 PM PDT by mountainlion (concerned conservative.)
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To: NormsRevenge
We don't know

...and it's none o' yer business.

8 posted on 07/09/2009 1:17:31 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (John Galt was exiled.)
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To: BipolarBob

LOL

Goliath used a personal weapon.

David used a RANGE weapon.


9 posted on 07/09/2009 1:18:58 PM PDT by ASOC (Who is that fat lady? And why is she singing???)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Do they have gun safes at Costco? hmmm.. maybe little ones..


10 posted on 07/09/2009 1:19:19 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard)
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To: NormsRevenge
This article is full of shit 'it' : "machine guns, bombs, knives or bare hands". What utter and complete 'carp'.

Annnnnnd UN; Molon Labe baby.

11 posted on 07/09/2009 1:19:45 PM PDT by Condor51 (The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits)
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To: Condor51

a dozen posts and no UN helmet with a hole in it. :-}


12 posted on 07/09/2009 1:20:33 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard)
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To: NormsRevenge
*** a dozen posts and no UN helmet with a hole in it. :-} ****

I was too 'ticked' to post one. But since you mention it...

;-)

13 posted on 07/09/2009 1:23:37 PM PDT by Condor51 (The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits)
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To: NormsRevenge
Those weapons in the hands of civilians, security forces or armed groups were behind the deaths of 450,000 people

And this number will be often quoted by liberal wacktards and the number per year killed in the United States by criminals.

Love these spin misleading reports by anti-gunners.

14 posted on 07/09/2009 1:28:25 PM PDT by Domandred (Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.)
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To: Condor51

Got it! Thanks!


15 posted on 07/09/2009 1:30:31 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard)
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To: NormsRevenge
Got it! Thanks!

you're welcome :-)

16 posted on 07/09/2009 1:32:39 PM PDT by Condor51 (The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits)
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To: NormsRevenge
Ballooning US demand and the handgun's surge in popularity drove up the global trade in small arms by more than a quarter between 2000 and 2006, a UN-backed study showed Thursday.


Abolish the United Nations.

17 posted on 07/09/2009 1:36:27 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Islam is a religion of peace, and Muslims reserve the right to kill anyone who says otherwise.)
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To: NormsRevenge
"The annual survey by researchers at Geneva's Graduate Institute is backed by UN agencies and several European countries."

Stupid Euro Weenies!

More Stupid U.N.

--

ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE

18 posted on 07/09/2009 1:38:14 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (The last time I looked, this is still Texas where I live.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Related threads:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271342/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271459/posts


19 posted on 07/09/2009 1:44:05 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: NormsRevenge
Ballooning US demand and the handgun's surge in popularity drove up the global trade in small arms by more than a quarter between 2000 and 2006, a UN-backed study showed Thursday.

Don't like it -- then stop acting like you're planning to infringe on our rights. What, we're just not supposed to notice?

20 posted on 07/09/2009 1:45:02 PM PDT by Still Thinking (If ignorance is bliss, liberals must be ecstatic!)
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