Show HN: Who Arms the World?

Re:Show HN: Who Arms the World? by giancarlostoro on Monday November 18, 2019 @11:52AM (#21565834)

This is what I was expecting honestly. I assume a good chunk to America, another chunk to other countries with "2nd Ammendment" like rights, or at least where it's legal to own guns for hunting.

Edit: Another interesting bit of information would show which guns by type, company, how many they create and what have you.

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Re:Show HN: Who Arms the World? by najarvg on Monday November 18, 2019 @12:08PM (#21565996)

The visualization is driven by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) database and it tracks only what is calls "major weapons" (see section 3 in https://sipri.org/databases/armstransfers/sources-and-method...). So small guns or similar arms will not be covered. Also, I have not checked the dataset yet, but from the description, a chord diagram of source and destination nations could probably be plotted from the SIPRI database. Would make for a good spare-time dataviz project!

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Re:Show HN: Who Arms the World? by vorpalhex on Monday November 18, 2019 @11:59AM (#21565898)

I believe this is more bombs and heavy weaponry than light arms.

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Re:Show HN: Who Arms the World? by giancarlostoro on Monday November 18, 2019 @12:25PM (#21566145)

Oh I see that now. Its not very obvious at first glance what is being illustrated.

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Re:Show HN: Who Arms the World? by sam_lowry_ on Monday November 18, 2019 @01:28PM (#21566778)

That's why Belgium is so low on the list.

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