Highly competitive, the
small arms market appears to be fragmented due to the presence of numerous well-established players.
'A related issue that aids proliferation of
small arms and light weapons within ECOWAS is terrorist financing.
The Army has invested upwards of $ 1 billion in failed
small arms science-and-technology projects since the 1960s.
Even the Toronto Transportation Commission, as the TIC was then known, assisted the workers by extending the Long Branch streetcar line from the previous terminal with the creation of the "
Small Arms Loop," which carried workers right to the front door of the plant.
He pointed to the close links between terrorism, organized crime and drugs and arms trafficking and underlined the need for due and simultaneous attention to the supply and demand aspects of
small arms trade.
The consequences of illegal trafficking of
small arms have been extensive.
For
small arms these are: revolvers and self-loading pistols, rifles and carbines, submachine guns, assault rifles, and light machine guns.
(Later in the book, arms brokers are considered a good example of 'sovereign free' actors eluding international law and domestic regulation.) The nature of
small arms impacts are then discussed, including economic costs, social dislocations--including forced migrations--and evident inadequacies in domestic law enforcement and border management permitting illicit
small arms trafficking to persist.
The trade of small and light weapons is worth an estimated $4 billion annually, according to the
Small Arms Survey, a Geneva-based research project.
"The criminals
small arms fire was ineffective and there were no US soldier or Iraqi security force casualties in the attack."
CARICOM Member States do not produce
small arms, light weapons and ammunition, nor are they large scale importers of them.