In the last 15 years around eight million small firearms have been collected and destroyed across the globe. However, in the same time span, more than 100 million such weapons were manufactured and sold. The result: many hundreds of thousands of dead and injured each year. Up until now, there's never been an international treaty aimed at limiting the trade in small firearms, but last year the General Assembly of the United Nations did decide that it was time to... (GunPolicy.org)