Guillermone, just as I had been discussing the mind boggling increase of AK47's worldwide; Presto - I found this concise article offering a logical explanation:

Meet the new death dealers
As the Internet transforms the weapons trade, Beijing is becoming a massive player -- and we should be scared

BY ANDREW FEINSTEIN


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This article was adapted from the new book, "The Shadow World," from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
In our twenty-?rst-century world the lethal combination of technological advances, terrorism, global crime, state-sponsored violence and socio-economic inequality has raised instability and insecurity to alarming levels. At the same time, the engine that has driven this escalation, the global arms trade, grows ever more sophisticated, complex and toxic in its effects.

It might therefore be thought essential that the world’s democratic nations should address this trade collectively and urgently. If it must exist, then surely it should be coherently regulated, legitimately ?nanced, effectively policed and transparent in its workings, and meet people’s need for safety and security?

Instead the trade in weapons is a parallel world of money, corruption, deceit and death. It operates according to its own rules, largely unscrutinized, bringing enormous bene?ts to the chosen few, and suffering and immiseration to millions. The trade corrodes our democracies, weakens already fragile states and often undermines the very national security it purports to strengthen.

Continue Reading (click on linK): http://www.salon.com/2011/11/12/meet_the_new_death_dealers/

Andrew Feinstein is the author of "After the Party," a political memoir. He is currently an Open Society Institute Fellow and the founding codirector of Corruption Watch in London. More Andrew Feinstein