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Firearm
“FIREARM” is any portable barrelled weapon that expels, is designed to expel or may be readily converted to expel a shot, bullet or projectile by the action of an explosive, excluding antique firearms or their replicas.

[Source: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime. New York, NY., 2001. Web: http://www.unodc.org/documents/treaties/Special/2001 Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms.pdf
Quoted in the International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes (ICCS), UNODC, Mar 2015, p.99, footnote 155. Web: http://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/statistics/crime/ICCS/ICCS_English_2016_web.pdf]
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