US government sent over 1.4 million guns to Iraq and Afghanistan | 24 Aug 2016 | Since the start of the so-called War on Terror, the US government has sent at least 1.4 million guns to arm Iraq and Afghan government forces, AOAV’s research into US Department of Defence contracts can reveal. AOAV’s analysis of a wide range of open source data reports showed that the US government had sent at least 1,452,910 small arms to Iraq and Afghanistan (949,582 for Iraq; 503,328 for Afghanistan) since 9/11. In August 2016 the Department of Defense (DoD) sent AOAV two charts that they believed accounted for the small arms sent to Iraq and Afghanistan between 2004 and June 2016 for Afghanistan, and 2005 and June 2016 for Iraq.
