• E4J University Module Series: Firearms

• Module 3: The Legal Market in Firearms

• Introduction and learning outcomes

• Key issues

• • The history of the legitimate arms market
  • The need for a legitimate market
  • The key actors in the legitimate market
  • Summary
  • References

• Exercises

• Possible class structure

• Core reading

• Advanced reading

• Student assessment

• Additional teaching tools

• First published in June 2019

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   This module is a resource for lecturers  

 

References

 

• Arendshorst, Tom (2005). Small Arms Trade . Colorado: The Beyond Intractability Project.
• Attwood, David, Anne-Kathrin Glatz and Robert Muggah (2006). Demanding Attention: Addressing the Dynamics of Small Arms Demand , Geneva: Small Arms Survey and the Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO).
• Bromley, Mark and Hugh Griffiths (2010). End-User Certificates: Improving Standards to Prevent Diversion . SIPRI Insights on Peace and Security, No. 2010/3. Stockholm: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
• Bromund, Theodore (2012). The Risks the Arms Trade Treaty Poses to the Sovereignty of the United States . Washington DC: The Heritage Foundation.
• Brose, Eric (2014). Arms Race prior to 1914, Armament Policy. 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War.
• Cowell, Alan (1997). New Records Show the Swiss Sold Arms Worth Millions to Nazis . New York: New York Times.
• Donohue, John J., Abhay Aneja and Kyle D. Weber (2017). Right-to-Carry Laws and Violent Crime: A Comprehensive Assessment Using Panel Data and a State-Level Synthetic Control Analysis. Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Vol. 16, Issue 2, 198-247.
• European Union (2008). Council Common Position 2008/944/CFSP of 8 December 2008 defining common rules governing control of exports of military technology and equipment. Official Journal of the European Union, L 335/99-103.
• Florquin, Nicolas and Benjamin King (2018). From Legal to Lethal . Geneva: Small Arms Survey.
• Follman, Mark, Julia Lurie, Jaeah Lee, and James West (2015). The True Cost of Gun Violence in America . MotherJones.
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• Grant, Jonathan (2012). "Merchants of Death": The International Traffic in Arms. Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective. Origins: Current Events in Historical perspective, Ohio State University, Vol. 6, Issue 3, December 2012.
• Greene, Owen and Elizabeth Kirkham (2007). Small Arms and Light Weapons Transfer Controls to Prevent Diversion: Developing and Implementing Key Programme of Action Commitments , Geneva: Biting the Bullet Project.
• Hamer, John (1976). Debate Over Wisdom of Weapons Transfers , CQ Researcher.
• HM Treasury (2017). Public Spending Statistics July 2017 . London: HM Treasury.
• Hoffman, Christopher (2014). Elisha K. Root: Colt's Manufacturing Mastermind, Connecticut: Hartford Courant.
• Holtom, Paul and Irene Pavesi (2017). Trade Update 2017 : Out of the Shadows, Geneva: Small Arms Survey.
• Howell, Elizabeth (2018). Navstar: GPS Satellite Network , Space.com.
• Jenzen-Jones, N.R. (2014). Producers of Small Arms, Light Weapons, and Their Ammunition . Small Arms Survey Research Notes, Number 43, July 2014.
• Karp, Aaron (2007). Completing the Count . Small Arms Survey Yearbook 2007.
• Karp, Aaron (2011). Estimating Civilian Owned Firearms . Small Arms Survey Research Notes, Number 9, September 2011.
• Killicoat, Phillip (2007). Weaponomics: the Global Market for Assault Rifles. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 4202, Washington DC: World Bank.
• Kimball, Daryl (2017). The Wassenaar Arrangement at a Glance , Washington DC: The Arms Control Association.
• Klare, Michael T. (2018). Arms Transfers and Trade . Encyclopaedia of American Foreign Policy.
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• US Department of State (2001). Background Paper: Can Small Arms and Light Weapons Be Controlled? Washington DC: Bureau of Political-Military Affairs.
• Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Controls for Conventional Arms and Dual-Use Goods and Technologies (1995). Founding Documents , Vienna: Wassenaar Arrangement Secretariat.
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• Woolcott, Peter (2014). The Arms Trade Treaty. United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law, Geneva: United Nations.
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