Various countries around the world have figured out that there really aren't many good laws against gun running. They got Victor Bout, but even that was a problem and took 10 years. You know, he's the Merchant of Death, there was a book and the movie Lord of War. By the late '90s he had his own fleet of more than 60 surplus Russian cargo planes.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11036569
People hear small arms treaty and they don't think small missles and big machine guns.