---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Small Arms Survey <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 4:49 PM Subject: Documenting Small Arms and Light Weapons To: Jean-Francois <[email protected]>
New Issue Brief* — Documenting Small Arms and Light Weapons: A Basic Guide * View this email in your browser <http://us9.campaign-archive2.com/?u=f825e06204d5b6ec1997aed09&id=d3200946ad&e=b3e6d4db9c> *Documenting Small Arms and Light Weapons * *A Basic Guide* A new guide offering practical advice on recording the identification characteristics of small arms and light weapons will help to ensure that all essential data is recorded accurately, so that a specialist may make a conclusive identification. The Issue Brief, *Documenting Small Arms and Light Weapons: A Basic Guide*, gives a step-by-step approach to documenting small arms and light weapons, as well as an overview of safety procedures and guidelines for undertaking documentation work in the field. It concludes with a section on the weapon that is most commonly observed in conflict zones: the AK rifle and its variants, copies, and derivatives. This Issue Brief was written with a range of professionals in mind. For those who are involved in the military or law enforcement communities, or who spend time in conflict zones as journalists or with non-governmental organizations or government agencies, it should provide some insight into the often-murky world of arms identification. The Issue Brief includes: - An explanation of the importance of accurately recording and identifying weapons, to assist in tracing ownership histories and thereby uncovering and ultimately disrupting illicit supply channels. - A synopsis of the methods and processes involved in arms tracing; and the international policy and legal framework for global arms control and tracing. - A discussion of the identifying features and markings of small arms and light weapons. - Guidance on fieldwork techniques, including a checklist for photographing weapons for the purpose of identification and tracing. - More detailed treatment of the ubiquitous AK-pattern rifles (which are often inaccurately recorded under the label ‘AK-47’). Small arms include handguns, rifles and carbines, assault rifles, shotguns, sub-machine guns, and light and medium (‘general-purpose’) machine guns. Light weapons include heavy machine guns, grenade launchers, portable anti-aircraft guns, portable antitank guns, recoilless rifles, rocket launchers, portable anti-tank guided weapons (ATGWs), man-portable air defence systems (MANPADS), and mortars of calibres up to 120 mm. *Download *Documenting Small Arms and Light Weapons: A Basic Guide <http://smallarmssurvey.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f825e06204d5b6ec1997aed09&id=634f4b2f2e&e=b3e6d4db9c> ------------------------------ - *More* on small arms <http://smallarmssurvey.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f825e06204d5b6ec1997aed09&id=30602b4b40&e=b3e6d4db9c> - *More* on light weapons <http://smallarmssurvey.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f825e06204d5b6ec1997aed09&id=d263565755&e=b3e6d4db9c> - *Listen* to the podcast Reporting from the Frontline: Weapons identification for journalists <http://smallarmssurvey.us9.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=f825e06204d5b6ec1997aed09&id=1321a5f756&e=b3e6d4db9c> - *See also* the Weapons ID Database <http://smallarmssurvey.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f825e06204d5b6ec1997aed09&id=85cc7c3147&e=b3e6d4db9c> <http://smallarmssurvey.us9.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=f825e06204d5b6ec1997aed09&id=851d73ea51&e=b3e6d4db9c> Share <http://smallarmssurvey.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f825e06204d5b6ec1997aed09&id=fb8e8f6531&e=b3e6d4db9c> <http://smallarmssurvey.us9.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=f825e06204d5b6ec1997aed09&id=f6885ea67d&e=b3e6d4db9c> Tweet <http://smallarmssurvey.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f825e06204d5b6ec1997aed09&id=2c292631b8&e=b3e6d4db9c> <http://us9.forward-to-friend.com/forward?u=f825e06204d5b6ec1997aed09&id=d3200946ad&e=b3e6d4db9c> Forward <http://us9.forward-to-friend.com/forward?u=f825e06204d5b6ec1997aed09&id=d3200946ad&e=b3e6d4db9c> *Other news* from the Survey: North African fighters in Syria <http://smallarmssurvey.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f825e06204d5b6ec1997aed09&id=aa0355f6d4&e=b3e6d4db9c> Podcast: Women & Armed Violence <http://smallarmssurvey.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f825e06204d5b6ec1997aed09&id=e30c4b08a6&e=b3e6d4db9c> Diversion of peacekeepers' weapons <http://smallarmssurvey.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f825e06204d5b6ec1997aed09&id=b8f4773c00&e=b3e6d4db9c> Reporting on trade & control measures <http://smallarmssurvey.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f825e06204d5b6ec1997aed09&id=7f909974b1&e=b3e6d4db9c> Weapons & the World Web Doc <http://smallarmssurvey.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f825e06204d5b6ec1997aed09&id=4e4d5d8a01&e=b3e6d4db9c> *More Highlights...* <http://smallarmssurvey.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f825e06204d5b6ec1997aed09&id=76d5e42c8f&e=b3e6d4db9c> The Small Arms Survey is a global centre of excellence whose mandate is to generate impartial, evidence-based, and policy-relevant knowledge on all aspects of small arms and armed violence. 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