Editing Arms trafficking (section)

===Areas===
{{See also|Arms trafficking in India|}} 
Although arms trafficking is widespread in regions of political turmoil, it is not limited to such areas, and for example, in [[South Asia]], an estimated 63 million guns have been trafficked into [[India]] and [[Pakistan]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=May 30, 2006 |title=Bangladesh turned into arms smuggling route; Experts critical of govt's indifference |work=The Daily Star |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/2006/05/30/d6053001107.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230123122953/https://archive.thedailystar.net/2006/05/30/d6053001107.htm|archive-date=January 23, 2023}}</ref>

The suppression of gunrunning is one of the areas of interest in the context of [[international law]]. In the United Nations, there has been widespread support to implement international legislation to prevent arms trafficking, however, it has been difficult to implement, due to many different factors that allow for arms trafficking to occur.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Cattaneo|first=Silvia|title=Small Arms Survey|publisher=Graduate Institute of International Studies|year=2004|page=147|chapter=Chapter 5. Targeting the Middlemen: Controlling Brokering Activities|url=https://www.smallarmssurvey.org/sites/default/files/resources/Small-Arms-Survey-2004-Chapter-05-EN.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220420201205/https://www.smallarmssurvey.org/sites/default/files/resources/Small-Arms-Survey-2004-Chapter-05-EN.pdf|archive-date= April 20, 2022}}</ref>

In the United States, the term "[[Iron Pipeline]]" is sometimes used to describe [[Interstate Highway 95]] and its connector highways as a corridor for arms trafficking into the New York City Metro Area.<ref name="Enos">{{Cite book |last=Enos |first=Sandra L. |title=Guns in American Society: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, Culture, and the Law |publisher=ABC-CLIO |year=2012 |isbn=978-0-313-38670-1 |editor-last=Gregg Lee Carter |pages=440–44 |chapter=Iron Pipeline |access-date=7 May 2015 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oD46JBOhMU0C&pg=PA440}}</ref>