The term small arms and light weapons refers to a category that comprise most common weapons of war such as individual infantry weapons such as rifles and machineguns and light crew operated weapons like mortars and shoulder fired rocket launchers. Those weapons are typically cheap, easy to handle and carry, and available to all sorts of criminals and outlaws fueling terrorism, civil wars, and gang warfare over the world. While any worldwide prohibitory regime of SALW is out of hand significant effort is being put into regulating the international arms trade.