Small Arms
A firearm is any type of gun designed to be readily carried and used by an individual. The term is legally defined further in different countries (see Legal definitions). The first firearms originated in 10th-century China, when bamboo tubes containing gunpowder and pellet projectiles were mounted on spears to make the portable fire lance, operable by a single person, which was later used to good effect in the Siege of De'an in 1132. In the 13th century, fire lance barrels were replaced with metal tubes and transformed into the metal-barreled hand cannon. The technology gradually spread throughout Eurasia during the …
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ISW: Institute for the Study of War · 30 April 2024 English
Geolocated footage published on April 28 and 29 indicates that Russian forces advanced in western and northeastern Ocheretyne (northwest of Avdiivka), along the rail line to the northwestern outskirts of …
Ukraine in the coming months and will also deliver small arms, logistics vehicles, armored infantry fighting …
ISW: Institute for the Study of War · 28 April 2024 English
The Critical Threats Project (CTP) at the American Enterprise Institute and the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) provides these updates regularly based on regional events. [...] An Israeli …
Bethlehem.[13] Palestinian fighters also fired small arms targeting Israeli forces conducting a raid in …
ISW: Institute for the Study of War · 27 April 2024 English
IRGC-affiliated Tasnim News Agency reported that the strike killed two “terrorists” but provided no further details on the identity of the targeted individuals.[32] Iran’s use of drones to target these …
April 25.[50] The al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades fired small arms and detonated IEDs targeting Israeli forces during …
MP-IDSA: Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses · 25 April 2024 English
During the last ten years, several issues such as the Arab Spring, the emergence and spread of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the COVID-19 pandemic, oil price …
in the fields of small arms and ammunition. Indian forces are using Israeli small arms such as Tavor, Uzi … Multi-function RADAR EL/M 2221 STGR Fire Control RADAR Small Arms Carmel Assault Rifle UZI Submachine Guns ARAD … the first Gulf country to purchase the Indian Small Arms System (INSAS) assault rifle in 2010.40 In September … (IRCON), 7, 55 Iran-Afghanistan Border, 54 Indian Small Arms System, 128 Iran-Iraq War, 23, 98, 112 Indian …
ORF: Observer Research Foundation · 24 April 2024 English
Introduction The US’s relationship with Ukraine has evolved since the end of the Cold War when the latter became an independent country. A crucial development came in 2014 when Russia …
rockets 16 Munitions for UAS Anti-armor and Small Arms 1 More than 10,000 Javelin anti-armor systems … grenade launchers and small arms 5 More than 400,000,000 rounds of small arms ammunition and grenades …
EPRS: European Parliamentary Research Service · 22 April 2024 English
The global supply of cocaine is at record levels: in just six years (from 2014 to 2020), cocaine production doubled and led to a 416 % increase in the European …
related to transnational organised crime and small arms control. The roadmap sets out a series of concrete …
CIC: Center on International Cooperation · 17 April 2024 English
This is made more salient not only because of the suffering and risks of horizontal escalation in the Middle East and the ongoing war on Ukraine but also because global …
norm-shaping; and international norms and tracking of small arms and ammunition. - These efforts can be organized …
ATT: Arms Trade Treaty (Secretariat) · 17 April 2024 French
Rep groupe de travail qui portait initialement sur des discussions théoriques vers les questions pratiques de mise en œuvre du Traité et vers des discussions évolutives sur les mesures nationales …
l’Argentine d’une part et par le Mexique, l’Espagne et Small Arms Survey d’autre part dans le cadre du cycle de … d’informations. 36. Après l’exposé de l’Argentine, Small Arms Survey a présenté la manière dont ils considèrent … la ligne de conduite proposée par l’Argentine. Small Arms Survey a également souligné l’importance des … efficaces d’atténuation des risques. À cet égard, Small Arms Survey estime que la proposition de l’Argentine … violence à l’encontre de la communauté LGBTQI+. Small Arms Survey, le Mexique et l’Espagne estiment également …
ATT: Arms Trade Treaty (Secretariat) · 16 April 2024 English
Under this item, the Chair invited delegations to raise substantive reporting issues/topics that could benefit from consideration by the WGTR, and highlighted the guidance on the topics of public availability …
Does your State include exports and imports of small arms for civilian purposes in the report? 4. Does …
ATT: Arms Trade Treaty (Secretariat) · 16 April 2024 English
This proposal also addressed the future configuration and substance of the work in the working groups, including the alignment of the work in the other working groups with the mainstream …
presented by Argentina and by Mexico, Spain and Small Arms Survey in the CSP9 cycle, both of which were … exchange. 36. Following Argentina’s briefing, Small Arms Survey presented how they see the policy recommendations … /Conf.Rep action proposed by Argentina. Also Small Arms Survey emphasized the importance of data collection … effective risk mitigating measures. In that respect Small Arms Survey deemed the Argentinian proposal to be … commit violence against the LGBTQI+ community. Small Arms Survey, Mexico and Spain also find it important …
