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What does gunrunning mean?

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Noun
  1. The smuggling of arms and ammunition.
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These connected crimes include corruption of state officials, forgery, use of fraud to obtain false certificates, blackmail, gunrunning, drug trafficking and money laundering.
Additionally, Spanish customs and tax officials paid several visits to ports and airports as part of their programme of fight against gunrunning.
They are used for coastal protection and operate in concert with the Customs Authority to fight gunrunning, smuggling and other illegal activities.
In Cyprus, translators employed by the British during the 1950s told tales of electrocutions and pulled fingernails as British intelligence officers tried to elicit information about gunrunning.
Whether protecting the opium trade, engaging in kidnapping, bank robbery, gunrunning, extortion or human trafficking, takfiri groups on both sides of the frontier today behave more like Mafiosi than mujahidin.
He frankly admitted that Carson made himself liable to be tried for high treason at the time of the Larne gunrunning.

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