Introduction

This Situation Update uses newly acquired data from US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to analyse the types, transport modes, and seizure locations of illicit firearms shipments from the United States to the Caribbean and Latin America, and highlights key differences in trafficking dynamics between the latter two regions. The Update is an initial analysis of the data and what it reveals about the similarities and differences between US-based trafficking to the Caribbean and Latin America. In future research the preliminary findings from this analysis will be checked against data from other sources, including data that government agencies in destination states have collected.