Noticias sobre las armas de fuego
Estados Unidos,Suiza,Unión Europea,Egipto,Arabia Saudita,Yemen,Bahrein,Emiratos Árabes Unidos,Qatar,Kuwait,Líbano,Jordania
Arms Trade Treaty Member Nations Flout Gun Trade Rules [FR]
26 August 2016
SwissInfo
[Translated summary: Many countries that have signed the Arms Trade Treaty continue to ignore the rules. Only Portugal, Slovenia and Sweden have been completely transparent about their trade. US, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, France and Italy continue to sell arms to Egypt which translates into the torture and death of hundreds of people.]
Disposer d'un traité sur le commerce des armes, c'est bien. Encore faut-il qu'il soit respecté. Pour Amnesty International, trop... (GunPolicy.org)
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Líbano,Iraq,Jordania,Omán,Egipto,Arabia Saudita,Croacia,Israel,Kuwait,Alemania,España,Emiratos Árabes Unidos,Italia,Qatar,Suiza,Estados Unidos
World's Small Arms Trade Reached US$5.8 Billion in 2013
17 June 2016
Israel Homeland Security
The Small Arms Survey (SAS) released its annual Transfers and Transparency trade update for 2016, which reveals that the world's top and the largest of the smaller arms exporters conducted trade to the tune of $5.8bn in 2013. This represents an increase of 17 percent in small arms trade on 2012, which came in at $5bn flat.
The United States alone, the world's largest arms manufacturer and exporter, exported a record breaking $1.1bn worth of small arms in 2013. In a... (GunPolicy.org)
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Kuwait
Kuwaiti Officials Investigate 25 Guns Lost from Military Camp
23 May 2014
Qatar News Agency
KUWAIT - Kuwaiti acting Prime Minister, Sheikh Mohammad Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah who is also acting Interior Minister and Minister of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs has ordered the formation of an ad-hoc security committee to fully and urgently investigate the loss of 25 pieces of weapon from the Special Forces' military camp.
An Interior ministry statement issued here last night said the committee includes the General Administration of Criminal Investigations and the... (GunPolicy.org)
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Kuwait
Kuwait Authorities Propose New Gun Law, Buyback to Curb Crime
28 March 2013
Arab Times (Kuwait)
KUWAIT CITY - The Economic and Financial Affairs Committee of the National Assembly Thursday approved the amendment to the loan interest law and agreed on not to allocate more than KD 720 million to the 'Family Fund' which the state should use to buy the loans from the banks.
Speaking after a marathon meeting which was held in the presence of Minister of Finance, Mustafa Al-Shamali and Governor of the Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK) Mohammed Al-Hathil, the Committee... (GunPolicy.org)
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Túnez,Egipto,Qatar,Emiratos Árabes Unidos,Kuwait,Bahrein,Omán,Iraq,Arabia Saudita,Yemen,Irán,Estados Unidos
How US, Middle East Gun Laws Measure Up
19 December 2012
Al Arabiya (Dubai)
The fatal Dec. 14 shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut which claimed the lives of 28 people, including 20 innocent children under 10 once again brought to light the dilemma of gun ownership in the United States and despite the fact that it received no response from the gun rights advocates but a deafening silence, laid emphasis on the necessity for the United States to revise its gun policies.
The shooting rampage, in which a mentally... (GunPolicy.org)
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Kuwait
Kuwait's Crime and Gun Figures Show Illegal Trafficking an Issue
21 September 2012
Kuwait Times
Three thousand forty-four felony crimes. Two thousand fifty-eight misdemeanor crimes. Twenty-four cases of possession of an unlicensed firearm. Eight-eight muggings at gunpoint. These are official statistics detailing crimes reported last year and published recently by the press. Meanwhile, a local daily published an investigative report about the spread of weapons in Kuwait, which provides a breakdown on the price of firearms sold illegally in the country. For example,... (GunPolicy.org)
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Siria,Kuwait
Kuwait Legislators Urge Govt to Enforce Firearm Laws, Confiscate Guns
28 August 2012
Arab Times
KUWAIT CITY - The recent allegations of gun possession by 'some' and shooting incidents have prompted some lawmakers to raise eyebrows and call on the authorities to take immediate action to collect guns from civilians because the situation is spinning out of control.
MP Adnan Al-Mutawa called on the Minister of Interior Sheikh Ahmed Al-Hmoud Al-Sabah to take swift measures to ensure illegal weapons are collected before the situation becomes unbearable.
He added the... (GunPolicy.org)
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Omán,Arabia Saudita,Bahrein,Kuwait
Friend Kills Groom at Kuwait Wedding with Celebratory Gunfire
22 August 2012
National (Abu Dhabi)
KUWAIT CITY - A Kuwaiti groom was killed on his wedding day after his friend accidentally shot him.
The friend, who surrendered to police, shot Abdullah Al Khaldi, 24, inside a car that was taking the wedding party to the marriage celebration.
Mr Khaldi, who worked for the ministry of defence, died before reaching hospital.
The incident, in Al Jahra neighbourhood of Kuwait City, has reignited a debate about civilian possession of firearms, which is legal in... (GunPolicy.org)
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Tailandia,Malasia,Indonesia,Kuwait,Qatar,México,Perú,Venezuela,Colombia,Bolivia,Somalia,Nepal,Omán,Letonia,Mauricio,Guyana,República Democrática del Congo,Bosnia-Herzegovina,Arabia Saudita,Liberia,Kazajstán,Singapur,República Dominicana,Jordania,Trinidad y Tobago,Emiratos Árabes Unidos,Guatemala,Honduras,Chile,Ecuador,Argentina,Zimbabwe,Zambia,Uganda,Tanzania,Senegal,República del Congo,Nigeria,Níger,Namibia,Marruecos,Mauritania,Malawi,Costa de Marfil,Egipto,Burkina Faso,Brasil,Túnez,Sri Lanka,Pakistán,Filipinas,Yemen,Estados Unidos,Italia,Alemania,Israel,Austria,Rusia,África,América,Asia,Europa,Sudáfrica,Argelia,Angola,Botswana,Ghana,Guinea,Madagascar
Brazilian Gun Industry Seeks New Markets: Africa and Asia [PT]
27 January 2012
Publica (Brazil)
[Translated summary: With the support of the Ministries of Defence and Foreign Affairs, Brazilian gun manufacturers seek new markets in countries with a history of human rights violations: Tunisia, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Philippines and Yemen. Brazil is among the six countries in the world with annual exports exceeding $ 100 million, according to recent research from Small Arms Survey. According to the Army, responsible for supervising and controlling exports from 2005 to... (GunPolicy.org)
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Libia,Estados Unidos,Turquía,Jordania,Filipinas,Iraq,Kuwait,Macedonia,Serbia
Celebratory Shooting Injuries: How Dangerous is Firing a Gun Into the Air?
22 August 2011
BBC News
Libyan rebels have celebrated their advance into Tripoli by firing guns in the air. How hazardous is this?
It is, unarguably, an emphatic way to display one's jubilation.
Shooting an automatic weapon into the sky to signal an occasion one welcomes is a popular practice in much of the world, as the footage of Libyan anti-Gaddafi forces seizing the main square of the capital city has demonstrated.
But it is a potentially fatal activity, which regularly results in the... (GunPolicy.org)
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Kuwait
Penalties Raised for Illicit Gun Possession
15 November 2005
Arab Times
KUWAIT — The National Assembly's Legislative and Legal Committee on Saturday passed two laws once regarding the ban on ownership of firearms and the other on transfer of properties.
Under the first law, the penalty for the illegal ownership of light firearms was raised from five years to ten years in jail while the penalty for acquiring automatic firearms was raised from seven years to 15 years in jail.
As for the fines to pay in either case, they are not less than... (GunPolicy.org)
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Kuwait,Iraq
Alleged Australian Gunrunner, Terrorist Comes to Trial in Kuwait
20 September 2005
Australian (Sydney)
An Australian man charged with being a member of a terrorist group is due to reappear in a Kuwait court this weekend, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) says.
Sydney businessman Tallaal Adrey, 30, is accused of running guns across the border from Iraq and being involved in a terror group known as the Peninsula Lions, whose members were involved in a deadly gun battle with Kuwaiti police in January.
A DFAT spokeswoman told AAP today Adrey and 33 other... (GunPolicy.org)
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Kuwait
New Kuwait Law to Curb Militants, Guns
1 February 2005
BBC News
The Kuwaiti parliament has passed a law giving the authorities wide-ranging new powers to seek out and seize illegal firearms.
The move follows gun battles this month between security force and suspected Islamic militants.
Once approved, the new law will be in force for a year and then renewable.
State TV reported on Monday that four Islamist militants were killed in a clash with police in the al-Qurain area, south of the capital.
Reports say the new law makes... (GunPolicy.org)
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Kuwait
Kuwaiti Parliament Rejects Weapons Search Bill
17 May 1998
Xinhua
KUWAIT CITY — Kuwaiti National Assembly Saturday night rejected a government-proposed bill to search for fire-arms in citizens' houses on grounds that it violates the sanctity of the home and the Islamic Sharia law.
Out of the 36 members who were present to vote, 27 were against, five for and four abstained, according to local newspapers Sunday.
The law was in effect for a two-year period from 1992 after the Gulf War and the government has been trying to reactivate... (GunPolicy.org)
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