MISSING PIECES - Inter-Parliamentary Union

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56 Cukier, Wendy (2005), The Feasibility of a Global Ban on Civilian Possession of Military Assault
Weapons, Report prepared for the Small Arms Working Group of the Peacebuilding and Human
Security: Development of Policy Capacity of the Voluntary Sector Project for the Canadian Peacebuilding
Co-ordinating Committee
57 Cukier (2005), The Feasibility of a Global Ban
58 From a public safety perspective, there is little difference between fully automatic and semiautomatic
military assault. A fully automatic AK-47 fires 20 rounds in 2.4 seconds, a semiautomatic
Norinco AK-47 takes 4.6 seconds. See Cukier et al. (2003), Emerging Global Norms
59 UN (1998), International Study on Firearm Regulation, p. 33. Available at: www.uncjin.org/
Statistics/firearms
60 UN (1998), International Study on Firearm Regulation
61 The law mandates that only personalised handguns will be available for purchase three years
after they become commercially available. See State of New Jersey (2002), ‘McGreevey Signs
Law Requiring Childproof Handguns’, press release, December 22. Available at: www.njstatelib.
org/NJLH/lh2002/govmess/ch130gov.htm. See also Eisenberg, Anne (2005), ‘Ready, aim, ID check:
In wrong hands, gun won’t fire’, New York Times, 6 January
62 This information was taken from SAFER-Net country profiles for Australia, Austria, Germany,
India, and Japan. Available at: www.ryerson.ca/SAFER-Net
63 SAFER-Net (2001, last update), country profile: Mexico. Available at: www.ryerson.ca/SAFER-
Net. Accessed 10 March 2004
64 SAFER-Net (2001, last update), country profile: Thailand. Available at: www.ryerson.ca/SAFER-
Net. Accessed 10 March 2004
65 Boesman, William and William Krouse (2001), National Integrated Ballistics Information Network.
Available at: www.boozman.house.gov/UploadedFiles/SECOND%20AMEND%20-%20Ballastic
%20Fingerprinting.pdf
66 Kirsten, Adèle et al. (2006), Islands of Safety in a Sea of Guns: Gun-free Zones in South Africa, Small
Arms Survey, Geneva. For more information, see South Africa case study, Annex 6
67 Australasian Police Ministers’ Council, 10 May 1996 and 17 July 1996, Consolidated Resolutions
Relating to Legislative Issues
68 Small Arms Survey 2004, p. 184
69 See Buchanan, Cate and Mireille Widmer (2006), Civilians, guns and peace processes: Approaches
and possibilities, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, Negotiating Disarmament Briefing Paper
No. 1. Available at: www.hdcentre.org/Negotiating+Disarmament
70 On Cambodia, see the European Union’s Assistance on Curbing Small Arms and Light Weapons
in the Kingdom of Cambodia (EU ASAC) at: www.eu-asac.org/and_cambodia/cambodia_small_
arms.html; on Sierra Leone, see www.undp.org/bcpr/smallarms/docs/proj_sierraleone.pdf
71 Email communication with David de Beer, project manager of the EU’s Assistance on Curbing
Small Arms and Light Weapons in the Kingdom of Cambodia (EU ASAC), November 2005
72 Bamako Declaration on an African Common Position on the Illicit Proliferation, Circulation and
Trafficking of Small Arms and Light Weapons. Available at: www.smallarmssurvey.org/source_
documents/Regional
73 South Pacific Chiefs of Police Conference and Oceania Customs Organisation (2000), Towards
a Common Approach to Weapons Control (‘Nadi Framework’), Nadi, 10 March. Available at: www.
smallarmssurvey.org/source_documents/Regional
74 OAS (2003), Andean Plan to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light
Weapons in All Its Aspects, OAS Decision 552, 25 June 2003. Available at: www.comunidadandina.
org/normativa/dec/D552.htm
75 The countries that negotiated the agreement are Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo,
Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. For the
text of the agreement, see www.saferafrica.org/DocumentsCentre/NAIROBI-Protocol.asp
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