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582 Travaux préparatoires: United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crimein addition to a system of procedures for applying them, is essential to the preventionof illicit international trafficking in firearms, their parts and components andammunition,“(h) Recognizing that States have developed different cultural and historical usesfor firearms, and that the purpose of enhancing international cooperation to eradicateillicit transnational trafficking in firearms is not intended to discourage or diminishlawful leisure or recreational activities such as travel or tourism for sport shooting,hunting and other forms of lawful ownership and use of firearms that are recognizedby the States Parties,“(i) Recalling that States Parties to the present Protocol have their own domesticlaws and regulations on firearms, ammunition and other related materials and recognizingthat this Protocol does not commit the States Parties to enact legislation orregulations pertaining to firearm ownership, possession or trade of a wholly domesticnature and that the States Parties will apply those laws and regulations in a mannerconsistent with this Protocol,“Have agreed as follows:”Rolling text (A/AC.254/4/Add.2/Rev.1)“Revised draft Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking inFirearms, Ammunition and Other Related Materials, Supplementary to the UnitedNations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime“The States Parties to the present Protocol,“Option 1“(a) Bearing in mind that freedom from the fear of crime is fundamental tointernational cooperation and to the sustainable development of States and that internationalillicit trafficking in and criminal misuse of firearms have a harmful effecton the security of each State and endanger the well-being of peoples and their socialand economic development,“Option 2 1“(a) Aware of the urgent need to prevent, combat and eradicate the illicit manufacturingof and trafficking in firearms, ammunition, explosives and other relatedmaterials, owing to the harmful effects of those activities on the security of each Stateand the region as a whole, endangering the well-being of peoples, their social andeconomic development and their right to live in peace,“Option 1“(b) Concerned by the [increase], 2 at the international level, in the illicit manufacturingof and trafficking in firearms, ammunition [, explosives] 3 and other relatedmaterials and by the serious problems resulting therefrom,1Alternative proposed by Mexico (see A/AC.254/5/Add.1 and Corr.1).2The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland proposed replacing the word “increase” with either theword “occurrence” or the words “indications of an increase” (see A/AC.254/5/Add.1 and Corr.1).3Addition proposed by Mexico (see A/AC.254/5/Add.1 and Corr.1).