ILLICIT ARMS TRAFFICKING WITHIN EU AND EU MEMBER STATES LEGAL FRAMEWORK
ILLICIT ARMS TRAFFICKING WITHIN EU AND EU MEMBER STATES LEGAL FRAMEWORK

Summary/Abstract: On the night of October 1, 2017, between 10:05 and 10:15 p.m., a 64 year old man fired hundreds of rifle rounds from his suite on the 32nd floor of a hotel on a crowd of concertgoers at the Route 91 Harvest music festival on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada, leaving 58 people dead and other 546 injured. An hour after the gunman shot himself. His motive is unknown1. How could this be happening? Probably there’s a main factor: the regulation on arms in USA is too lax, excessively flexible, which is produced by something we could name as “arms culture”. In fact, an important sector of the American society strongly believes that they do have the right to protect themselves, and that the best way to get it is by using firearms. This would explain sociological phenomena such as the powerful National Rifle Association, which is the only civil association from the USA that was invited to the negotiations on the UN Arms Trade Treaty, the same association that attempted to block that Treaty.

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