淘寶無所不能 中國打擊網絡槍支交易

The rise of ecommerce in China has touched alMost every sector of the economy – including an increasingly popular black market for DIY firearms.

中國電子商務的興起幾乎已觸及所有的經濟領域，包括日益興旺的自制槍支黑市。

For less than $100 one can buy the parts, tools and instructions to make a shotgun. There have been several arrests this year with police swooping on gangs of online gunrunners.

人們花費不到100美元就能買到製造散彈槍的配件、工具和組裝指南。今年以來，警方對網絡槍支販賣者展開了突襲行動，逮捕了多人。

Most recently, two men from Shanxi province were arrested last month for having a small arsenal of guns, firearms parts and ammunition they had bought online on Taobao, the popular Chinese ecommerce website owned by Alibaba, which listed in New York in September in the largest-ever initial public offering and which yesterday released its debut set of results as a listed company.

上月，兩名山西男子因持有從淘寶上購買的一些槍支、配件和彈藥而被捕。淘寶是阿里巴巴旗下一個頗爲紅火的購物網站。阿里巴巴今年9月在紐約上市，IPO融資規模創出有史以來的最高水平，日前該公司發佈了上市以來的首份財報。

Police said the suspects also used QQ, an online chat app owned by Tencent, another Chinese internet giant, to find clients and give online tutorials.

警方表示，嫌犯們還通過QQ來尋找客戶和進行在線指導。QQ是中國另一家互聯網巨頭騰訊(Tencent)旗下的在線聊天軟件。

Online trading in illegal firearms has soared in the past three years, according to Ma Ding, dean of the Institute of Network Security at the People’s Public Security University of China, which trains elite police officers. “The internet has provided a more convenient channel through which buyers and sellers far away can reach each other,” she said. “There is now easier access to the materials and components.”

中國人民公安大學(China People's Public Security University)網絡安全保衛學院院長馬丁表示，網上的非法槍支交易在過去3年大幅飆升。她表示：“互聯網爲相距甚遠的買家和賣家相互接觸提供了更爲便利的渠道。現在也更容易獲取原材料和配件。”中國人民公安大學是培訓精英警官的地方。

However, Ms Ma added the quality of the weapons sold online was generally low. In one recent case, a car mechanic named Zhou was arrested in Jiangsu province for modifying air rifles to shoot bullets. He apparently had a fondness for hunting birds and police described his contraption as capable of “shooting a hole in a beer bottle 6m away”.

然而，馬丁補充稱，網上出售的武器質量通常比較差。在最近發生在江蘇省的一個案件中，一名姓周的汽車修理工因改裝出能夠打子彈的氣槍而被捕。他顯然有打鳥的愛好，根據警方的描述，他組裝的槍支能夠“將6米遠的啤酒瓶打出一個洞”。

But some online arms dealers are of a larger scale. In June, a man in Dezhou in Shandong province was arrested for running an online shop on Taobao where he sold an estimated 130 rifles as well as gun parts to buyers in 22 provinces worth more than Rmb40,000. He also published an online video tutorial on how to assemble guns.

但網上一些槍械賣家的規模做得不小。今年6月，山東德州的一名男子因在淘寶上開店出售槍支和彈藥而被捕——他向22個省份的買家出售了大約130只步槍以及槍支配件，價值逾4萬元人民幣。他還在網上發佈瞭如何組裝槍支的視頻教程。

Alibaba is particularly exposed because virtually all small online sellers in China use Taobao. While Alibaba has strict policies prohibiting weapons sales, it has had problems policing sellers of everything from fake goods to uranium and other materials that can be used to make nuclear bombs.

阿里巴巴深受牽連，因爲中國幾乎所有的小網店都使用淘寶。雖然阿里巴巴嚴禁銷售武器，但它很難監督賣家銷售的從假冒僞劣產品到鈾及其他可用來製造核武器的原材料等各種商品。

“Taobao Marketplace is an open, user-generated content platform,” the company said in a statement, “and has stringent product listing policies in place prohibiting the listing of any firearms or weapons; the platform will co-operate with law enforcement authorities to remove problematic product listings promptly.”

阿里巴巴在一份聲明中表示：“淘寶是一個開放的、由用戶生成內容的平臺，擁有嚴格的產品上架制度，禁止出售任何槍支或武器；淘寶將與執法機關合作，迅速移除問題產品信息。”

In most cases, traders have hidden by selling innocuous sounding parts, which can then be assembled into finished guns. In the Shandong case, “Huo” ran a Taobao shop called Chengxin Qidong, or “Honesty Pneumatic components”.

在大多數情況下，賣家會以出售普通的正當配件打掩護——但這些配件可以被組裝爲槍支。在山東一案中，“霍某”在淘寶上開了一家名爲“信譽氣動”的店鋪。

“Internet gun traders may be quite discreet, as they divide their shipments and there is nothing suspicious of the parts themselves” said Ms Ma.

馬丁表示：“網上的槍支賣家非常謹慎，他們將東西拆分發貨，這些配件本身沒什麼可懷疑的。”

However, she said, police units have begun monitoring forums and online stores advertising certain types of tubing and other parts that can be used in assembling firearms. “The cases are too difficult to crack,” she said.

不過，她表示，警方開始監控某些論壇和網店，因爲它們上面有廣告推銷某些管型材料和其他能夠用來組裝槍支的零部件。她說：“這些案件很難偵破。”