PPEcel
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When I mean light weapons (as defined by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and various arms control agreements), I mean:
*Land mines and IEDs are considered light weapons by some treaties, but the indiscriminate nature of these weapons means they may not be suitable for civilian use, in my opinion. I am a strong supporter of Canada and the EU's longstanding diplomatic efforts to ban the use of anti-personnel mines in warfare.
- Anti-material rifles
- Portable flamethrowers
- Light machine guns
- General-purpose/medium machine guns
- Heavy machine guns no more than 12.7mm in calibre
- Hand grenades
- Underslung grenade launchers
- Rocket-propelled grenades
- Recoilless rifles
- Automatic grenade launchers
- Mortars less than 100mm in calibre
- Man-portable anti-tank systems
- Man-portable air-defense systems
- Rotary cannons requiring an external power source, of any calibre
- Automatic cannons more than 12.7mm in calibre
- Mortars or artillery equal to or more than 100mm in calibre
- Self-propelled artillery
- Self-propelled anti-aircraft systems
- Armoured vehicles
- Cluster munitions
- Land mines*
- Improvised explosive devices*
- Autonomous weapon systems
- Air-launched ordnance, or any aerial platform
- Any ordnance requiring the use of a naval platform, or any naval platform
- Anti-satellite weapons
- High-yield conventional bombs
- Thermobaric weapons
- Biological, chemical, or radiological agents
- Nuclear devices
*Land mines and IEDs are considered light weapons by some treaties, but the indiscriminate nature of these weapons means they may not be suitable for civilian use, in my opinion. I am a strong supporter of Canada and the EU's longstanding diplomatic efforts to ban the use of anti-personnel mines in warfare.
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