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56 Cukier, Wendy (2005), The Feasibility of a Global Ban on Civilian Possession of Military Assault<br />
Weapons, Report prepared for the Small Arms Working Group of the Peacebuilding and Human<br />
Security: Development of Policy Capacity of the Voluntary Sector Project for the Canadian Peacebuilding<br />
Co-ordinating Committee<br />
57 Cukier (2005), The Feasibility of a Global Ban<br />
58 From a public safety perspective, there is little difference between fully automatic and semiautomatic<br />
military assault. A fully automatic AK-47 fires 20 rounds in 2.4 seconds, a semiautomatic<br />
Norinco AK-47 takes 4.6 seconds. See Cukier et al. (2003), Emerging Global Norms<br />
59 UN (1998), <strong>Inter</strong>national Study on Firearm Regulation, p. 33. Available at: www.uncjin.org/<br />
Statistics/firearms<br />
60 UN (1998), <strong>Inter</strong>national Study on Firearm Regulation<br />
61 The law mandates that only personalised handguns will be available for purchase three years<br />
after they become commercially available. See State of New Jersey (2002), ‘McGreevey Signs<br />
Law Requiring Childproof Handguns’, press release, December 22. Available at: www.njstatelib.<br />
org/NJLH/lh2002/govmess/ch130gov.htm. See also Eisenberg, Anne (2005), ‘Ready, aim, ID check:<br />
In wrong hands, gun won’t fire’, New York Times, 6 January<br />
62 This information was taken from SAFER-Net country profiles for Australia, Austria, Germany,<br />
India, and Japan. Available at: www.ryerson.ca/SAFER-Net<br />
63 SAFER-Net (2001, last update), country profile: Mexico. Available at: www.ryerson.ca/SAFER-<br />
Net. Accessed 10 March 2004<br />
64 SAFER-Net (2001, last update), country profile: Thailand. Available at: www.ryerson.ca/SAFER-<br />
Net. Accessed 10 March 2004<br />
65 Boesman, William and William Krouse (2001), National Integrated Ballistics Information Network.<br />
Available at: www.boozman.house.gov/UploadedFiles/SECOND%20AMEND%20-%20Ballastic<br />
%20Fingerprinting.pdf<br />
66 Kirsten, Adèle et al. (2006), Islands of Safety in a Sea of Guns: Gun-free Zones in South Africa, Small<br />
Arms Survey, Geneva. For more information, see South Africa case study, Annex 6<br />
67 Australasian Police Ministers’ Council, 10 May 1996 and 17 July 1996, Consolidated Resolutions<br />
Relating to Legislative Issues<br />
68 Small Arms Survey 2004, p. 184<br />
69 See Buchanan, Cate and Mireille Widmer (2006), Civilians, guns and peace processes: Approaches<br />
and possibilities, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, Negotiating Disarmament Briefing Paper<br />
No. 1. Available at: www.hdcentre.org/Negotiating+Disarmament<br />
70 On Cambodia, see the European <strong>Union</strong>’s Assistance on Curbing Small Arms and Light Weapons<br />
in the Kingdom of Cambodia (EU ASAC) at: www.eu-asac.org/and_cambodia/cambodia_small_<br />
arms.html; on Sierra Leone, see www.undp.org/bcpr/smallarms/docs/proj_sierraleone.pdf<br />
71 Email communication with David de Beer, project manager of the EU’s Assistance on Curbing<br />
Small Arms and Light Weapons in the Kingdom of Cambodia (EU ASAC), November 2005<br />
72 Bamako Declaration on an African Common Position on the Illicit Proliferation, Circulation and<br />
Trafficking of Small Arms and Light Weapons. Available at: www.smallarmssurvey.org/source_<br />
documents/Regional<br />
73 South Pacific Chiefs of Police Conference and Oceania Customs Organisation (2000), Towards<br />
a Common Approach to Weapons Control (‘Nadi Framework’), Nadi, 10 March. Available at: www.<br />
smallarmssurvey.org/source_documents/Regional<br />
74 OAS (2003), Andean Plan to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light<br />
Weapons in All Its Aspects, OAS Decision 552, 25 June 2003. Available at: www.comunidadandina.<br />
org/normativa/dec/D552.htm<br />
75 The countries that negotiated the agreement are Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo,<br />
Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. For the<br />
text of the agreement, see www.saferafrica.org/DocumentsCentre/NAIROBI-Protocol.asp<br />
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