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Though one of the least profitable illegal trades, arms trafficking made an estimated $1.7-3.5 billion in 2014, making it the 9th largest criminal market, which was valued at $1.6-2.2 trillion. [27] The AK-47 is one of the most appealing weapons in the illegal weapons trade due to its low cost and reliability. [28]
The small arms trade (also called small arms proliferation [1] and the small arms market) is the markets of both authorized and illicit small arms and light weapons (SALW), as well as their parts, accessories, and ammunition.
The Iron Pipeline is the route in the United States used to smuggle weapons from ten states mostly in the Southern United States [1] to Mid-Atlantic states and New England, [2] particularly states with stricter gun laws such as New York and New Jersey.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexico's government filed a lawsuit against five Arizona gun dealers on Monday accusing them of participating in illicit weapons trafficking, a Mexican official told Reuters ...
Gunwalking, or "letting guns walk", was a tactic used by the Arizona U.S. Attorney's Office and the Arizona Field Office of the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), which ran a series of sting operations [2] [3] between 2006 [4] and 2011 [2] [5] in the Tucson and Phoenix area where the ATF "purposely allowed ...
A row of federal agents and prosecutors stood Wednesday behind tables displaying dozens of recently seized military-grade sniper rifles, belt-fed machine guns and semi-automatic pistols — all ...
[18] [19] However, while many U.S. military grade weapons such as grenades and light anti-tank rockets are acquired by the cartels through the huge supply of arms left over from the wars in Central America and Asia, a report from the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) found combination weapons that were counterfeits ...
A recent report from the Wall Street Journal highlighted crypto's role in global arms dealing, just as Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo is poised to testify before the Senate Banking Committee.