A Not-So-Comical Comic Strip

In its 2008 report, the Small Arms Survey included a descriptive comic strip – less comical and more serious than the term would imply. I am including the comic here because the visualization is not far-removed from real life black market transactions in the arms trade. The narrative of the comic is quite telling of reality and depicts the unfortunate ease and casualness with which smugglers often conduct their illegal business. But I can say little that the images themselves do not already communicate, so here it is…

© Small Arms Survey 2008

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