Thefts of firearms have fallen by half since 1991, controls on arms-smuggling from the United States have been tightened, and the police make much use of the database system in their investigations.

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More than one-and-a-half trillion dollars in earnings through the sale of arms.

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Striker Connor was also unlucky to see a reflex header fall into the keeper's grateful arms following an incisive move just after the half-hour mark.

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