CIAO DATE: 09/06

Targeting Ammunition

Edited by Stéphanie Pézard and Holger Anders

Small Arms Survey

June 2006

 

 

Table of Contents

• Front Matter, Acknowledgements, Table of Contents (PDF, 585 KB)

• Introduction: Ammunition for Small Arms and Light Weapons: Understanding the Issues and Addressing the Challenges (PDF, 723 KB)
  Owen Greene

• Why ammunition matters
• Framing the ammunition issue
• Tackling ammunition: missed opportunities
• This book

1. Basic Characteristics of Ammunition: From Handguns to MANPADS (PDF, 1.9 MB)
   James Bevan and Stéphanie Pézard

• Introduction
• A brief history of ammunition
• Basic categories of ammunition for small arms and light weapons
• Hitting the target: a review of effects
• Recent developments in ammunition technology
• Future developments in small arms and light weapons ammunition
• Conclusions: the research and policy implications of ammunition characteristics

2. The Production of Ammunition for Small Arms and Light Weapons (PDF, 1.2 MB)
   Holger Anders and Reinhilde Weidacher

• Introduction
• An overview of global ammunition production
• An overview of the ammunition industry
• The scope for controls on ammunition production
• Conclusion

3. Buying the Bullet: Authorized Small Arms Ammunition Transfers (PDF, 1.4 MB)
   Anne-Kathrin Glatz

• Introduction
• Data issues
• Small arms ammunition exporters and importers
• Conclusions

4. Deadly Diversions: Illicit Transfers of Ammunition for Small Arms and Light Weapons (PDF, 1.5 MB)
   Mike Bourne and Ilhan Berkol

• Introduction
• The types of trafficking processes for ammunition for small arms and light weapons
• Ant-trade smuggling of ammunition for small arms and light weapons
• Covert sponsorship
• Diversion
• Large-scale black-market illicit transfers
• Conclusion

5. Sustaining the Conflict: Ammunition for Attack (2.4 MB)
   Stéphanie Pézard

• Introduction
• Bringing ammunition to conflict zones
• Use and misuse of ammunition during conflict
• After the dust settles: post-conflict situations
• Conclusion and recommendations

6. Crime and Ammunition Procurement: The Case of Brazil (PDF, 1.7 MB)
   Pablo Dreyfus

• Introduction: weak states, organized crime, and patterns of ammunition procurement
• Assessing the problem
• Patterns of ammunition procurement by criminals: some case studies
• Control measures in the Brazilian Statute of Disarmament
• Conclusion

7. Following the Lethal Trail: Identifying Sources of Illicit Ammunition (PDF, 1.6 MB)
   Holger Anders

• Introduction
• Existing standards on ammunition marking and record keeping
• Requirements for reliable tracing
• Concerns about ammunition tracing
• Conclusion

8. Stockpile Management of Ammunition (PDF, 2.2 MB)
   Adrian Wilkinson

• Introduction
• Defining types of ammunition stockpiles
• Accounting for ammunition
• Ammunition safety
• International initiatives for ammunition stockpile management
• Conclusion

9. The Three Ds: Disposal, Demilitarization, and Destruction of Ammunition (1.7 MB)
   Adrian Wilkinson

• Introduction
• Definitions and challenges of ammunition disposal
• Why should ammunition disposal be a global political issue?
• What is the scale of the problem?
• Ammunition disposal options
• Initiatives to address ammunition disposal
• Conclusion

• Conclusion(PDF, 45 KB)
  Holger Anders and Stéphanie Pézard