Global arms trade visualised by google
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Tue 7 Aug 2012, 16:49,
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fuck, that's beautifully rendered
some questionable figures though, $6.1m of "Civilian" weapons imported in to the UK?
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HappyToast Groat froth, Tue 7 Aug 2012, 16:53,
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was thinking about this...
licensed farming weapons, privately owned hunting guns, and maybe even decommissioned collectors items?
(, Tue 7 Aug 2012, 16:57, Reply)
Isn't it though?
I was so impressed about the graphics I didn't check the figures
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From the FAQ
"Civilian arms consist of pistols, revolvers, sporting shotguns, sporting rifles (anything not rated as a military item including fully automatic weaponry)."
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Tue 7 Aug 2012, 16:58,
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That'll be all of the Police forces' handguns then
for the most part
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Lord Keeps meaning to procrastinate., Tue 7 Aug 2012, 17:39,
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Easily
That's a genuinely small number of privately licensed shotguns and rifles. Bear in mind that only handguns are illegal in the UK and shooting is big sport (hell, we got Gold didn't we?). If you look at the number of shooting clubs and indeed (private) schools that import, I'm surprised the figure is actually this small.
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DinivanX Has stinging piss after drinking Pact Coffee, Tue 7 Aug 2012, 17:13,
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from the FAQ:
Civilian arms consist of pistols, revolvers, sporting shotguns, sporting rifles (anything not rated as a military item including fully automatic weaponry).
edit: hahaha. Damn you Amadeus you cad.
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JamTallons, Tue 7 Aug 2012, 17:15,
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I got all that, what I missed was that it was the sum total of almost 20 years trade
I thought it was just in one year
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HappyToast Groat froth, Tue 7 Aug 2012, 17:20,
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ah ok.
It was interesting that the US hasn't increased it's export by a huge amount though (200 million?), contrary to popular belief.
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JamTallons, Tue 7 Aug 2012, 17:24,
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That is just for ONE year - check out the slider at the bottom of the screen for the other years.
$456,710,000 of civilian weapons imported into the UK over 18 years.
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in which case I return to my first opinion
which is that's fucking insane and can't be right
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HappyToast Groat froth, Tue 7 Aug 2012, 18:34,
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They didn't need to spend all that.
They should go into the gun shop, take the stuff and shoot the owner like in The Terminator.
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Pig Bodine., Tue 7 Aug 2012, 17:23,
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Whats a "fire fox"?
Is that some kind of google chrome mod?
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Tue 7 Aug 2012, 17:01,
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i.e. in the pub
do you see what I did there? did you? did you?
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wideeye slightly pickled, Tue 7 Aug 2012, 17:18,
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It sort of does
if you go to about:config and set 'webgl.force-enabled' to True.
Probably best to only have the one tab open at the time though because it got very unhappy when I closed it...
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Tue 7 Aug 2012, 17:03,
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yeah check out all the new google processes running on your computer now
even when it's not on. hope they dont accidentally upload all of the personal information from your computer, like google streetcars accidentally did with wifi networks
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Was there one of these recently for Emigration/Immigration?
If so I kind of want that link back, that was really interesting.
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Extinct Jesus Dossier "...I think it counteracts Hitler's magic...", Tue 7 Aug 2012, 17:56,
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