This document discusses arms trafficking and the global arms trade. It notes that arms trafficking, also known as gunrunning, is the illegal trafficking or smuggling of contraband weapons or ammunition. An estimated 63 million guns have been trafficked into India and Pakistan from other areas of political turmoil. The total value of the global arms market is estimated at around $60 billion per year, with the illegal arms trade estimated at 10-20% of the total. The United States has the highest rate of gun ownership per 100 residents at 88.8.

1. Physics.
TOPIC: ARMS TRA FFICKING!
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Arms trafficking, also known as gunrunning, is the illegal
trafficking or smuggling of contraband weapons or ammunition.
 IMPACT :
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Areas Although arms’ trafficking is widespread in regions of political
turmoil, it is not limited to such areas, and for example, in South
Asia, an estimated 63 million guns have been trafficked into
India and Pakistan.
 MARKET
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VALUE:
The total value of the global arms market is estimated around
$60 billion a year, with around $8 billion attributed to pistols,
rifles, machine guns, and bullets.The total illegal arms trade is
harder to estimate, but the illicit small arms market has been
estimated at 10-20% of the total global arms trade.
Highest Gun
Ownership Rate per 100 residents 88.8 in USA

3.  A report released by the Collective Security Analysis for Democracy stated that there
were 2.8 million unregistered firearms in Central America.
 Average number of firearm thefts that occur every year in the US: 341,000 .
 Percentage of Americans who agree that "companies that manufacture guns with no
hunting or sporting purpose should be held financially responsible when these guns
injure or kill people": 45
 Number of guns federal firearms licensees have reported as lost, stolen or missing
since Sept. 13, 1994 when the Clinton Crime Bill made reporting a requirement:
23,775
 Percentage decrease in federal firearms licensees since 1993: 56%
 Number of federal firearms licensees in the US: 124,286
 Number of ATF agents to regulate them: 391
 Number of trace requests responded to by the ATF in 1996: 139,092
 Number of ATF employees who work on trace requests:41
Percentage of Americans who feel that "the laws covering the sale of firearms should be made
more strict": Number of firearms in the US: 223 Million

4. GLOBAL ARMS SALES – 2004 TO
2011:

5. FIRE – ARM RELATED DEATH RATE:
Japan
United Kingdom
Series 1
Series 2
Series 3
Australia
Canada
united states
0%
50%
100%