“Guns don’t kill people; people do.” How did an American gun-rights slogan become a global political ideology? AOAV investigates the international spread of pro-gun rhetoric. aoav.org.uk/2026/guns-do...

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Who amongst us hasn't been provoked into saying black people are animals and the King is a secret Muslim who should be decapitated?

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AOAV concludes that civilian harm in Gaza was not an unintended by-product of war, but the foreseeable result of specific weapon choices used at scale in one of the world’s most densely populated territories.

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Recognising this, AOAV set out to focus on the material characteristics of the weapons used: manufacturer, blast radius, fragmentation patterns, fuse settings, guidance systems, dud rates and the supply chains that enabled continued bombardment.

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Media reporting refers to “airstrikes” or “shelling”, often without identifying the munitions, their manufacturers or the doctrines governing their deployment. The weapons are therefore obscured, and the technological, logistical and procurement systems sustaining them often left unidentified.

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