weapons trafficking
Illegal arms trade
Weapons trafficking is the illegal trade in firearms, ammunition, explosives, or other arms across borders or within countries.
The term covers everything from black-market handgun sales to international smuggling of military-grade equipment.
Traffickers supply criminal organizations, insurgent groups, and individuals barred from legal purchase: The cartel obtained assault rifles through weapons trafficking networks.
Also called arms trafficking or gunrunning.
- gunrunningIllegal weapons smuggling
- gun runnerIllegal firearms trafficker
- smugglingIllegal covert transport
- armsUpper body limbs
- arms dealerVendor of weaponry
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- crimesarson, burglary, robbery, kidnapping, vandalism
- federal crimesbank robbery, kidnapping, counterfeiting, tax fraud, wire fraud
- smugglingcontraband, smugglers, human smuggling, smuggling rings, people smuggling
- smuggling enforcementcustoms agents, customs officers, border patrol, contraband, seizure
- cybercrimehacking, phishing, malware, ransomware, data breach
- Interpolred notice, wanted list, member countries, secretary general, police cooperation
weapons traffickingdisarmament
Reducing or eliminating weapons
arms reduction · demilitarization · peacekeeping · conflict resolution · decommissioning
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