In 2012, Arizona adopted a law penalizing knowingly “trafficking in weapons or explosives for financial gain in order to assist, promote or further the interests of a criminal street gang, a criminal syndicate or a racketeering enterprise.”¹ Under the law, “trafficking” means to sell, transfer, distribute, dispense or otherwise dispose of a weapon or explosive to another person, or to buy, receive, possess or obtain control of a weapon or explosive, with the intent to sell, transfer, distribute, dispense or otherwise dispose of the weapon or explosive to another person.²

Arizona has no other laws aimed at firearms trafficking.

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1. Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 13-3102(A)(16).[↩]
2. Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 13-3101(A)(9).[↩]