What are medium arms?

Medium Weapons are two-handed weapons available to Medium and Heavy Body Types. This includes automatic assault rifles, powerful close-quarter shotguns and portable grenade launchers. Medium Body Types are able to utilise weapons of this category as primary weapons.

What is classed as small arms?

Small arms are, broadly speaking, weapons designed for individual use. 3 They are usually at the lower end of the calibre spectrum (4.6–40 or 66 mm). Small arms include handguns (self-loading pistols and revolvers) and shoulder arms (rifles and carbines, sub-machine guns and light machine guns, and grenade launchers).

Why do I have small arms?

Why Do Some People Have Extremely Thin Arms? Your arms are longer compared to other body parts which makes them look thin. Your arm muscles are disproportionately smaller compared to other body parts. Most of the fat is concentrated in your midsection and your arms just look smaller.

What are small arms?

Small arms. Small arms, often referred to colloquially as firearms or even guns, are man-portable lethal weapons for individual use that can expel or launch a shot, bullet, or projectile by action of explosive.

What is the ratio of small arms to national military weapons?

National military weapons ratios range from 1.2 to 8.9 small arms per person. Typical military small arms inventories include 72\% assault rifles, 13\% pistols, 6\% machine guns, and 9\% other small arms. Small Arms Survey, ‘Data sources and the estimation of military-owned small arms’, Research Note No. 34, September 2013, p. 3.

Why did the 1997 panel of experts choose the term ‘small arms’?

It is not clear why the 1997 Panel of Experts preferred the term ‘small arms’ to that of ‘firearms’; the drafters only state that they decided to focus on military weapons, to distinguish their work from the parallel efforts of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice that would lead to the 2001 Firearms Protocol. Ibid, §8.

What is the ununodc classification of illicit arms?

UNODC adopted a simplified classification in its 2015 Study and also in its global illicit arms flow questionnaire, which is based on the following types: Is a short or hand-held firearm with a revolving cylinder typically of five to nine chambers, manually loaded with cartridges.