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“Ninety per cent of the things that are said about the ‘black market’ in arms are the figment of writers’ and politicians’ imagination. There are no secrets in this world. Everybody knows what you’re doing. If weapons are being ‘smuggled’, some government agency is behind it.”

Val Forgett, arms dealer.* K. Silverstein, Private Warriors. New York, Verso Books, 2000.

“…Yet it is important to keep in mind that what we are seeing is not an aberration; the aberration is only that we are seeing it, and what we are seeing is still not the most of it.”

J. Kwitny, The Crimes of Patriots. A True Tale of Dope, Dirty Money,

and the CIA. New York, W. W. Norton & Co., 1987.

Welcome to TransArms website

TransArms is a US-based non-for-profit organization dedicated to analyzing and monitoring the logistics of conventional and non-conventional arms transfers and the military logistic chain of State and Non-State actors.

Founded in 2002, TransArms offers a unique expertise on the melding of military and commercial logistics, as well as on transport of hazardous materials.

TransArms research activity has been mainly supported by grants from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Ploughshares Fund.