A tank is a tank, no matter how big its gun

[maddezmom]

For the ATT to be effective, it must cover all types of military, police and security equipment © Private
By Oilver Sprague, Arms Programme Director fir Amnesty International UK

What should the scope of an effective Arms Trade Treaty be?

If your aim is to prevent the use of conventional weapons to commit or facilitate serious crimes against people, then it’s obviously necessary to include everything that is used in such abuse and also to encompass all the ways that weapons are transferred across the globe.

Technically this is known, as the scope of the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) covers both the equipment it will cover and types of transactions it will regulate.

Amnesty International and humanitarian aid organization Caritas explored these issues in a meeting hosted by the French government at the United Nations in New York this week.

more:http://livewire.amnesty.org/2011/03/03/a-tank-is-a-tank-no-matter-how-big-its-gun/

[ProgressiveProfessor]

1. This is redundant to existing natioinal legislation