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What does gunrunning mean?

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Noun
  1. The smuggling of arms and ammunition.
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Peruvian investigators are looking into evidence that he might have been involved with gunrunning to Marxist guerrillas in Colombia.
Two recent and notorious cases, involving gunrunning operations in Africa and the spread of nuclear weapons technology, illustrate the challenges that illicit brokering poses.
Friendship with two of the crew, the brothers César and Dominique Cervoni, led him during 1877-78 to become involved in gunrunning along the Spanish coast for the Carlist cause.
Additionally, Spanish customs and tax officials paid several visits to ports and airports as part of their programme of fight against gunrunning.
Organized crime is involved in extortion, kidnaping, murder, fixing bids for public works, and gunrunning.
These connected crimes include corruption of state officials, forgery, use of fraud to obtain false certificates, blackmail, gunrunning, drug trafficking and money laundering.

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