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The prevalence of drug trafficking, coupled with emboldened organised crime groups and armed non-state actors with vast financial resources, has turned Latin America and the Caribbean into hotspots for internal conflict and violence in recent years.

According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), eight of the 10 countries with the highest homicide rates in the world were in the region in 2021, which the organisation said directly correlates to the misuse of firearms.

Of particular note, criminal and militant entities have capitalised on the widespread availability of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW), a category that includes handguns as well as semi-semiautomatic and automatic rifles.

The tool applies open source research techniques to maintain a robust, up-to-date and publicly available database that tracks SALW incidents in the region within an easy-to-use dashboard.

Finally, the information is uploaded to ArcGIS via a survey123 form that emulates all the items already included in the standardised schema, leading to the plotting of all the data points in a single dataset.

They were also frequently captured from individuals in major cities like Rio de Janeiro.An example that showcases the trend at the border is this seizure from January 2023 when Military Police confiscated 161 firearms in Guaíra, Paraná, including Canik pistols, Derya MK12 shotguns, and Fake Colt / Punisher AR pattern rifles.

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