Santos embarks on international anti-gun campaign .

[naaman fletcher]

2. Sounds like just PR

The reality is that the global trade in weapons is VERY highly regulated despite what people read in the newspapers.

There are very, very few weapons that are snuck into countries in some manner as movie would protray.

USUALLY, weapons come in because a corrupt government legally buys them, and then distributes them to people who shouldn't have them.

For example, let's say egypt buys a bunch of AK-47's from Ukraine in a fully transparent manner, but then the older guns that are being replaced are covertly given to militants or something.

There is really nothing that Santos or the UN can do about that.