Weltweit sind etwa 700 Millionen Waffen im Umlauf und jedes Jahr werden weitere acht Millionen produziert. ###>The action programme urges the governments to control the production and sale of this type of weapon, to mark pistols in order to facilitate their identification once they have been sold, to penalise the production and possession of illegal weapons, to identify and destroy surplus weapons and to establish final use certificates for export and transit, amongst other measures.