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Part Four. Article 6 641of illicit manufacturing or trafficking fall into the hands of private individuals or businessesthrough auction [, sale] or other disposal.]“Option 2“2. States Parties shall prevent illicitly manufactured and trafficked firearmsand ammunition from falling into the hands of criminals by seizing and destroyingsuch firearms and ammunition unless other disposal [that includes destroying themor rendering them unusable] has been officially authorized and the firearms andammunition have been marked or recorded and their disposal also recorded.”Rolling text (A/AC.254/4/Add.2/Rev.6)Eleventh session: 2-28 October 2000“Article 7“Confiscation, seizure and disposal“1. Without prejudice to article 12 of the Convention, States Parties shall adopt,to the greatest extent possible within their domestic legal systems, such measures asmay be necessary to enable confiscation of firearms, their parts and components andammunition that have been illicitly manufactured or trafficked.“2. States Parties shall adopt, within their domestic legal systems, such measuresas may be necessary to prevent illicitly manufactured and trafficked firearms,parts and components and ammunition from falling into the hands of unauthorizedpersons by seizing and destroying such firearms, their parts and components andammunition unless other disposal has been officially authorized, provided that thefirearms have been marked and the methods of disposal of those firearms and ammunitionhave been recorded.”Notes by the Secretariat2. The Ad Hoc Committee considered this article at its eleventh session. Article 7of the draft protocol was finalized without further amendment and approved by the AdHoc Committee at its twelfth session (see the final text of the protocol, as included in thereport of the Ad Hoc Committee (A/55/383/Add.2, sect. III, draft resolution, annex), thatwas submitted to the General Assembly for adoption pursuant to resolutions 54/126 of 17December 1999 and 55/25 of 15 November 2000).