What Does a Gun Mean to You? (Video)

Ahead of the history-making decision on the Arms Trade Treaty less than two weeks from now -- starting July 2 in New York at the United Nations -- the Control Arms Coalition set up a series of exclusive interviews with four high-profile personalities.

The interviewees provide personal views on why the future Arms Trade Treaty is a game changer and can make a real difference in the world's most dangerous conflict-zones.

In this short clip, they answer the simple question: "What does a gun mean to you?"

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This is a preview of a short film that will be release this summer during the talks at the United Nations.

Produced and Directed by Minos Papas of Cyprian Films NY.

The four interviewees are:

Stuart Franklin Platt --Rear Admiral, United States Navy (Retired) who has capped a distinguished career in the U.S. Navy with his appointment during the Reagan administration to serve as the country's first Competition Advocate General (the Navy's top businessman in uniform).

Ishmael Beah, born in Sierra Leone, Ishmael is an ex-child soldier and became a New York Times bestselling author with his chronicle A Long Way Gone, Memoirs of a Boy Soldier.

Kathi Lynn Austin, is an experienced and internationally recognized expert on arms trafficking, peace and security, and human rights. For nearly 20 years, Ms. Austin has carried out in-depth field investigations into the illegal trade in weapons, illicit trafficking operations, illegal resource exploitation, transnational crime and terrorism.

War photographer Paul Conroy, nearly killed in Syria this spring, is a seasoned freelance photographer / cameraman / editor with extensive experience in hostile environment, Paul had been working alongside the late Sunday Times correspondent Marie Colvin in Libya and Syria.

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