Supplying weapons to a murderer in British law is called aiding and abbetting. Would you then say ut if I didn give him the gun, some one else would?
‘British’ arms companies source their components from all around the world, and increasingly is outsourcing its labour. Indeed many of the companies do not even want to be ‘British’ preferring to be seen as global companies. Hence British Aerospace changing its name to BAE Systems. Of course the arms trade needs regulating globally, and we are campaigning with Amnesty and Oxfam for a global arms trade treaty. However, BAE Systems are lobbying against us.