AOAV’s research on guns
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17 OctShooting at Crimea college leaves 18 dead
Today, October 17th 2018, a bomb blast at a technical college in Kerch, Crimea, left at least 18 dead with a further 50 said to be wounded.
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8 NovHow guns turned the American dream into a nightmare
How America's love affair with the gun is intrinsically linked to mass-production, advertising and lobbying: the logic of capitalism turned into lethal realities.
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10 OctThe Las Vegas massacre reveals a troublesome, global truth about guns
The 2nd Amendement laid the ground for the Las Vegas massacre, as it lays the ground for massacres not just in the US, but all around the world.
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10 JanIain Overton speaking about Japan’s gun culture on the Moncrieff show, Newstalk National Radio Ireland.
Japan was, arguably, the first culture to introduce gun laws globally.
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6 JanIain Overton speaking on Japan’s gun culture on BBC World Services’ My Perfect Country
Fi Glover, Henrietta Moore and Martha Lane For and Iain Overton, the Executive Director of Action on Armed Violence, question whether Japans' laws could work in other countries.
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3 JanDeaths from police shootings in England and Wales at levels not seen for almost a decade
The death of a man during a police operation near the M62 brings the total number of people shot and killed by police in England and Wales to levels not seen for almost a decade.
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20 DecAlmost 60 ‘guns’ have been found in possession of prisoners in HM prisons over a decade, Ministry of Justice figures reveal
A freedom of information request by AOAV shows that 57 guns had been found in British prisons between 2005 and 2014.
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24 AugUS Department of Defence spend on guns in ‘War on Terror’ revealed
in 14 years of the 'War on Terror' the US DoD issued over $40 billion worth of contracts on guns and ammo and more than 1.4 million guns sent to arm Iraq and Afghanistan forces.
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24 AugUS government sent over 1.4 million guns to Iraq and Afghanistan
After submitting to the DoD our findings in March 2016, AOAV provided the DoD the opportunity to submit a list of the small arms they believe have been supplied through the US to Iraq and Afghanistan.
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24 AugUS DoD spend on small arms to Afghanistan revealed
US Department of Defence small arms contracts to Afghanistan reviewed
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24 AugUS DoD spend on small arms to Iraq revealed
US DoD spend on small arms to Iraq reviewed.
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24 AugMajor differences found between US Department of Defence and the Federal Procurement Database System contract listings
When researching small arms contracts it became apparent that there were major inconsistencies in the recording of contracts worth millions of US dollars