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Belgium Enjoys Record Year of Arms, Gun Sales to Saudi Arabia
Brussells Times
Saudi Arabia bought 60% of Walloon weapons sold in 2015. This is per the report of the "Weapons" sub-commission of the Wallonia parliament on export licences granted or refused during the last year. Le Soir is reporting this today (Tuesday). Wallonia has never exported so many arms to Riyadh. Saudi Arabia has only accounted for 34 export licences of the 1,369 delivered from 68 countries across the whole of the year. However, these contracts represent a total of... (GunPolicy.org)
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World's Small Arms Trade Reached US$5.8 Billion in 2013
Israel Homeland Security
The Small Arms Survey (SAS) released its annual Transfers and Transparency trade update for 2016, which reveals that the world's top and the largest of the smaller arms exporters conducted trade to the tune of $5.8bn in 2013. This represents an increase of 17 percent in small arms trade on 2012, which came in at $5bn flat. The United States alone, the world's largest arms manufacturer and exporter, exported a record breaking $1.1bn worth of small arms in 2013. In a... (GunPolicy.org)
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Drive to Register Guns Held in Oman After Recent Crimes, Deaths
Times of Oman
MUSCAT - The Royal Oman Police (ROP) recently carried out a drive to register all unlicensed weapons and conventional guns in the Musandam governorate. More than 500 guns and conventional weapons were registered between May and August this year, according to a ROP official. After the specified period, all unlicensed guns and conventional weapons that are found unregistered will be confiscated by the ROP, the official informed. The ROP recently arrested a citizen on... (GunPolicy.org)
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Yemen,Oman,Turkey
Oman Seizes Over 30,000 Pistols in Port, Allegedly Headed to Yemen
Fox News (USA)
MUSCAT, Oman – Oman police say they have seized more than 30,000 pistols aboard a tanker, which a newspaper reports was bound for neighboring Yemen. The seizure comes two years after an Abu Dhabi court sentenced six people for a foiled plot to smuggle 16,000 pistols from Turkey to Shiite rebels in northern Yemen. The official Oman News Agency quoted a police colonel as saying nine Omanis were arrested in connection with the alleged shipment of 30,393 pistols... (GunPolicy.org)
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Germany Doubles Arms Supplies to Persian Gulf Nations
RT-TV Novosti (Russia)
German military exports to Persian Gulf nations doubled in 2012 amid repeatedly-voiced international concerns over gross human rights violations in the region. The German government has been fiercely accused of unscrupulousness in arms sales. The latest report published by Munich-based Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper suggests that German arms export to the six nations belonging to the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf has grown two-fold, from 570... (GunPolicy.org)
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How US, Middle East Gun Laws Measure Up
Al Arabiya (Dubai)
The fatal Dec. 14 shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut which claimed the lives of 28 people, including 20 innocent children under 10 once again brought to light the dilemma of gun ownership in the United States and despite the fact that it received no response from the gun rights advocates but a deafening silence, laid emphasis on the necessity for the United States to revise its gun policies. The shooting rampage, in which a mentally... (GunPolicy.org)
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Oman,Saudi Arabia,Bahrain,Kuwait
Friend Kills Groom at Kuwait Wedding with Celebratory Gunfire
National (Abu Dhabi)
KUWAIT CITY - A Kuwaiti groom was killed on his wedding day after his friend accidentally shot him. The friend, who surrendered to police, shot Abdullah Al Khaldi, 24, inside a car that was taking the wedding party to the marriage celebration. Mr Khaldi, who worked for the ministry of defence, died before reaching hospital. The incident, in Al Jahra neighbourhood of Kuwait City, has reignited a debate about civilian possession of firearms, which is legal in... (GunPolicy.org)
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Anti-piracy Security Firms Keep Guns in Floating Armouries to Avoid Law
NAIROBI, Kenya — Private security firms are storing their guns aboard floating armories in international waters so ships that want armed anti-piracy guards for East Africa's pirate-infested waters can cut costs and circumvent laws limiting the import and export of weapons, industry officials say. Companies and legal experts say the operation of the armories is a "legal gray area" because few, if any, governments have laws governing the practice. Some security... (GunPolicy.org)
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Oman,United Arab Emirates
Omani Man Confesses to Killing Woman With Gun He Found in Her House
Gulf News (Dubai)
MUSCAT — An Omani was arrested and charged last week with murdering a woman in Dhofar, according to a press release from the Royal Oman Police yesterday. Mohammad Bin Khadim Bin Salim Qahoor, a resident of Dhofar region, was arrested on May 17 for allegedly shooting to death an unnamed Omani woman on May 7. According to a police statement the man said he shot the woman with a gun he found in her house. Tipped off "A citizen alerted the police that a female... (GunPolicy.org)
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