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'1000 people will be killed by firearms today and every day'

Malcolm Fleming, media and public relations manager with Oxfam, is at the United Nations in New York this week campaigning on the vital issue of a global arms trade treaty. This is his report

Someone has just been killed. Soon their family will know. Their mother and father, or sons and daughters, or husband or wife will face the grief of a loved one lost, the expected future ended, and potential hardship as they face life without them.