Europol announced that organized crime groups in the European Union are able to purchase weapons such as rocket launchers and AK-47s for prices between 300 to 700 Euros ($398 to $929).

Source:  Stephen Fidler, “Going Cheap in the EU: AK-47s,” Wall Street Journal, Real Time Brussels Blog, July 15, 2010.

According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the global illicit market in arms trafficking is valued between $170 Million to $320 Million per year ($245 Million Mean).

Source:  UNODC, “The Globalization of Crime,” Chapter 6: Firearms, June 2010.

From 1992 to 1997, approximately $32 Billion worth of military equipment and munitions was stolen from Ukraine and sold around the world.

Source:  UNODC, “The Globalization of Crime,” Chapter 6: Firearms, June 2010.

The illegal arms trafficking market between the United States and Mexico is valued at $20 Million per year.

Source:  UNODC, “The Globalization of Crime,” Chapter 6: Firearms, June 2010.

In 2008, US Law Enforcement seized about 10,000 guns from entering Mexico.

Source:  UNODC, “The Globalization of Crime,” Chapter 6: Firearms, June 2010.

There are an estimated 10 million unregistered weapons in Mexico.

Source: UNODC, “The Globalization of Crime,” Chapter 6: Firearms, June 2010.

According to US Congressman Eliot Engel, 90 percent of the guns seized in Jamaica are from the United States.

Source:  Eza Fieser, “Caribbean re-emerges as a drug corridor,” GlobalPost, June 1, 2010.

An estimated 1,4000 sales of guns occur each year on the black market in the Chicago neighborhood of Grand Boulevard-Washington Park.

Source:  Duaa Eldeib, “Criminals aren’t only ones ignoring city handgun ban,” Chicago Tribune, June 6, 2010.

According to the Center for American Progress, only one third of the 875 million small and light arms in circulation around the world, or 291 million,  are held by legitimate security forces.

Source: Rachel Stohl and EJ Hogendoorn, “Stopping the Destructive Spread of Small Arms,” Center for American Progress, March 10, 2010.

There are over one million illegal guns in the Philippines.

Source:  Norimitsu Onishi, “Sinatra Song Often Strikes Deadly Chord,” New York Times, February 6, 2010.