Types of weapons

Types of Weapons

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Small Arms	Light Weapons	Ammunition and Explosives
Revolvers and self-loading pistols	Hand-held under-barrel and mounted grenade launchers	Cartridges (rounds) for small arms
Rifles and carbines	Portable anti-aircraft guns	Shells, missiles and mines for light weapons
Sub-machine guns	Portable anti-tank guns, recoilless rifles	Mobile containers with missiles or shells for single action anti-aircraft and anti-tank systems
Assault rifles	Portable launchers of anti-tank missile and rocket systems	Anti-personnel and anti-tank hand grenades
Machine guns	Portable launchers of anti-aircraft missile systems	Anti-tank mines
	Mortars of calibers up to 82 mm inclusive

Problems resulting from excessive accumulation and availability of small arms and light weapons.

1. Criminal acts with military style weapons;
2. Promotion of violent solutions to conflicts;
3. Arming of private citizens and development of private security groups;
4. Proliferation of illegitimate centers of violence;
5. Emboldening the disaffected;
6. Threat to democratic political development;
7. Economic development stalled or threatened;
8. Difficulties in implementing U.N. peacekeeping and post-conflict reconstruction operations;
9. Increasing harm to civilians.

Modes of accumulation and transfer

1. Indigenous production;
2. Legitimate import;
3. Illicit import,

	Covert government to government transfer,
	Government arms subnational groups,
	Black Market.

4. In-country circulation,

	Theft from government arsenals,
	Capture from government or other subnational groups,
	Buy from other subnational groups,
	Acquire from criminal groups,
	Leaking pipeline—corruption.

Policy Options for Dealing With the Negative Effects for Small Arms and Light Weapons

National Level

1. Improved laws and judicial systems,
2. Improved policing and border control,
3. Manufacture, export and import controls,
4. Weapons collection programs,
5. Demobilization and demilitarization.

Multilateral Level

1. Support for capacity-building,
2. Transparency,
3. Embargo,
4. Use of Force,
5. Ban on certain types of weapons,
6. Conditionality,
7. Demobiliztion and demilitarization,
8. Regional cooperation,
9. International norm building.