The OAS will help the Dominican Government Control Gun Smuggling
Weapons marking machine. Photo grenvoice
Santo Domingo.- The Organization of American States (OAS) will help the Dominican Government’s ability to control gun smuggling, through the program “Promotion of Firearms Marking in Latin America and the Caribbean” announced Friday.
“The traffic of firearms is one of the main current problems because it’s directly associated with organized crime,” said OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza agreement.
The content of the agreement signed Friday afternoon during a ceremony in the OAS offices in Washington DC, will be disclosed.
Insulza said most weapons “are dealt illegally throughout the region, for which it’s very important to combat their illicit traffic and to mark them so that their whereabouts can be traced.”
The agreement forms part of the Convention against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms (CIFTA), the first binding international instrument in the matter.
Via agreement, the OAS will provide the Dominican Republic a machine to mark firearms, which was donated by Washington.
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Thank goodness for that! The sale and control of guns in this country (the D.R.) are very strong, but these controls were undermined by some Americans who thought they were smart by bringing in guns and bragging about it on sites here, and how they had overcome the controls at both the US and DR airports. Some had even sold some of those arms to "untrustworthy men here.
This is not clever by any means and the US also needs to look at their security checks to see how this was possible for them to bring those arms out of the US. JMO
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