arms smuggling
Illicit weapons trade
Arms smuggling is the illegal transport of weapons across borders or into restricted areas.
The term covers everything from handguns to military-grade equipment: The investigation uncovered an arms smuggling ring supplying rebel forces.
Arms smuggling often intersects with other criminal enterprises and geopolitical conflicts, making it a focus of international law enforcement.
- explosivesDetonating substances
- firearmsWeapons using explosive propulsion
- human traffickingCriminal trade in people
- conflict diamondsGems traded for weapons
- war zoneArea of active conflict
drug trafficking · ammunition · middlemen · shell companies · back channels · concealment · bribery · international treaties · sanctions · export controls · money laundering · legal loopholes · customs enforcement · organized crime · handguns · transshipment · border crossing · false documentation
- guerrilla warfareguerrilla, guerrilla tactics, guerrilla fighter, partisan, partisan warfare
- smugglingcontraband, smugglers, drug trafficking, courier, trafficking
- Mandate PalestineBritish Mandate, Balfour Declaration, British rule, illegal immigration, League of Nations
- espionagespy, spies, double agent, double agents, spying
- resistanceresistance, defiance, resistance fighters, civil resistance, resist
- global threatsterrorism, nuclear war, cyberattacks, pandemic, nuclear weapons
arms smugglingdisarmament
Reducing or eliminating weapons
arms control · gun buyback · demilitarization · arms reduction · nonproliferation