Oxfam: Sale of ammunition 'must be regulated'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18269837Humanitarian charity Oxfam has launched a new campaign to call for the regulation of the sale of ammunition around the world. It comes ahead of a United Nations summit in July on bringing in a new arms trade treaty to regulate the sale of arms. Oxfam is arguing that any treaty must also regulate ammunition trade or the treaty "doesn't make sense". But a number of nations, including the US and China, oppose such a move.
Egypt, Syria, Russia, Iran, Venezuela and several other countries are also against including ammunition trade in any final treaty, arguing that it will be too difficult to monitor. In a new report, Oxfam found that the global ammunitions industry for small arms and light weapons is worth $4.3bn (£2.78bn), much more than the trade in the weapons themselves, with 12 billion bullets produced a year.
Anna Macdonald, head of arms control at the charity, said: "A gun without a bullet is a very large metal stick, basically. Ammunition is literally the fuel of conflict. "The trade in ammunition is lucrative, but while the monetary cost of production is low, the price paid in human lives for the trade in ammunition is incalculable."
The parameters of the new treaty, if is is passed, will be worked at a month-long UN conference in July between arms companies, governments and aid agencies. A draft treaty which would ban all weapons sales to countries that fail to meet various human rights criteria has already been provisionally agreed to by 153 counties. The aim is for it to bring various international laws governing the sale of arms into one legally-binding treaty.
Oxfam says 12 billion bullets are produced each year - almost two for every person in the world
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Only two a year? Well, I guess I have my "fair share" of them at this point, with (roughly) 17,500 years of production in my inventory at this time!
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(just for the record, I prefer to invest in high-grade curio & relic pistols, so the collection is worth more like $75 grand 
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Hint, if you want to convince others you are democrats and not gun nuts,
Who says you can't be both?
buy a star and quit bragging about your vast arsenals.
I don't care how you spend your money. Why do you care how I spend mine?
I also post on many topics that relate to liberal causes.
As do I. Only 25% of my posts are in this group; I mostly post in GD. On the other hand, I see that 52% of your posts are in this group, so if anyone is spending the majority of their posting time obsessing with guns, it's not me...!
I also support...registration of handguns, along with mandatory background checks on all handgun sales, including private sales.
How nice for you! I support none of those. It's none of The State's business.
I think I can influence more people to accept gun ownership, which goes a long way to maintaining our gun rights, than those that post this kind of comment. You do a disservice to the gun cause and only cause others to question people that own guns.
Influence anti-gun people on this forum to be more accepting of gun rights?
I'm sure Hoyt and the late, unlamented Iverglas will be coming around to the pro-gun rights side any day now...
No one here is changing minds and influencing people. While there may be the extremely rare exceptions, all the millions of posts on this site which address politics do is either:
a) reinforce long-held opinions ("Conservatives suck!" "Ditto!"
, or
b) allow people to engage in confrontational arguments that sway neither side ("Guns are horrible, ban 'em!" "Out of my cold dead hands, you blankety-blank..."
Granted, if you include the Lounge, another option appears.
c) "Here's a picture of a funny cat." "LOL!"
I swear, I had to even look up the reference, and then I giggled at the childish nature of the infatuation with whatever meme-value it had. I swear, if I didn't know any better, I would say some of you haven't progressed much beyond the age of dolls and action figures...
(Note to jurors: it's true, you'll see them bust this one out every time they try to distort the underpinnings of a factual analysis.)
P.S. Rob Reiner would laugh so hard he would have a heart attack if he saw his film being used in this way.
...guess you don't get out too much 
Given some of the tantrums and insults you display pretty much removes any doubt that dolls, action figures and coloring books make up a large part of your activities away from DU.
at the preemptive jury instructions. Those didn't help iverglas. The irony isn't lost on you I hope.
...from a 1987 children's movie. I do interact with children often so yeah I play with kids toys with kids. What's your excuse? Replace your stuffed animal collection with guns?
How are you with small animals? 
P.S. Iverglas wasn't banned for anything having to do with the Gungeon. In fact, the vast majority of DU applauds her efforts. Why are you here again?
...your aren't s much swinging as blindly flailing...
I'm great with animals small and large too. What you are trying to insinuate just proves you really have no lower bounds when it comes to childish insults.
PS: I didn't say iverglas was banned for anything dealing with this group in particular. She did often attempt to instruct jurors in a preemptive manner. Shouldn't have to do that unless you have problems keeping to a civil discussion.
...the 1000+ post thread applauding her removal from DU. Majority spoke and her "efforts" are now old news and their absence is not much lamented..
Mirror, mirror, on the wall....
, indeed.
Class warfare has started.
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Anyone who buys in bulk is a whacko, I'm sure.... 
...one of those "prepper" types.
And who mentioned MREs?
Seriously, if you don't perceive the vast gulf between cost-effective bulk buying and any sort of clinically-defined hoarding, then you should cut up both your Costco card and your membership in the Amateur Internet Psychiatrist Club... 
We're talking about bullets here, remember?
And it still looks likes you called another DUer a prepper = RW nut. not cool...
...and motives thereof.
How else would you describe someone with enough ammunition to wage a small scale guerrilla war?
saved some money in a common and rational way, but now we're talking about your biases, amateur diagnoses, and unprovoked personal attacks on that DUer.
Why don't you just admit to your petty and knee-jerk attempt to insult a gun-ownig DUer, and apologize for the disruption?
...a fuck-ton of ammunition and non-perishable food supply screams right-wing prepper.
Also, that's not frugal, that's nutty, you're buying shit you don't need barring the end of civilization.
Why are you so intent on doubling- and tripling-down in your personal attacks against another DUer (RW, "nutty", preparing for guerrilla war)?
Aside from your willful disregard for courtesy and civil discourse, all you're really demonstrating is your ignorance of recreational shooting and a strange incomprehension of basic shopping strategies...
preparing for a guerrilla war, and suffering from a mental illness - all in this one short sub-thread. And you honestly don't see how your behavior is seriously inappropriate?
(Not to mention that question about small animals you posted up thread - I'm not sure what to make of that.)
Good Day Mr. Manners 
Don't think he'll be long following a recently departed DU'er. Only so much tolerance for making DU suck these days...
Chalk up another strike for slugger.
You are insulting people in an ignorant and all to obvious way. Coming from you that isn't terribly surprising but calling those who even take relatively small steps towards emergency preparedness right wing nuts is a new low. Pity you are so ignorant of the efforts of those who are trying to make sure events like Katrina and Joplin cause minimal human suffering. Disgusting
Yeah clearly the problem in those cases was an insufficient supply of arms and ammunition to the populace - 
BTW if you haven't noticed - this is a Democratic board - rational emergency preparedness is not 35,000 rounds of ammunition.
..you are not an authority on all things Democratic. Not even close
...that you won't feel up to shooting magnum rifles for a few days?
Glad everything went well, here's to a smooth recovery... 
