Cornwall Arms Factory Disrupted

FOR IMMEDIATE USE: Corn­wall Arms Fac­to­ry Dis­rupt­ed

This morn­ing, activists from Stop Ker­now Arms Trade occu­pied the roof of Hel­ston Gun­smiths, a com­pa­ny who man­u­fac­ture tanks & small arms, to high­light the irre­spon­si­bil­i­ty of the arms trade.

FOR IMMEDIATE USE: Corn­wall Arms Fac­to­ry Dis­rupt­ed

This morn­ing, activists from Stop Ker­now Arms Trade occu­pied the roof of Hel­ston Gun­smiths, a com­pa­ny who man­u­fac­ture tanks & small arms, to high­light the irre­spon­si­bil­i­ty of the arms trade.

In 2007, the UK sold weapons to 11 of the 13 coun­tries iden­ti­fied as being loca­tions with at least one armed con­flict in 2006. Hel­ston Gun­smiths were involved in sup­ply­ing guns to the Iraqi police force which end­ed up in the hands of Al Qae­da. It’s hard to deter­mine where weapons will even­tu­al­ly end up, and arms man­u­fac­tur­ers have a vest­ed inter­est in keep­ing things this way. Around 90% of casu­al­ties in armed con­flicts are caused by small arms, which are used for domes­tic repres­sion by cor­rupt regimes and pro­long vio­lent con­flict.

Con­tact Danielle Scu­d­amore on 07789 898374 for more infor­ma­tion.

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