Stein, Matthew. "Gauging the Impact of the Firearms and Ammunition Lost During the June 2010 Violence in Southern Kyrgyzstan". Small Wars Journal, 20 Nov. 2013.

Stein, Matthew. "Gauging the Impact of the Firearms and Ammunition Lost During the June 2010 Violence in Southern Kyrgyzstan". Small Wars Journal, 20 Nov. 2013.

• The violence in the Southern Kyrgyz Republic during June 2010, in addition to causing numerous deaths and acts of atrocious inter-communal violence, was also marked by the theft of firearms and ammunition seized by mobs from local police stations, offices of the Minister of the Interior, and border defense outposts (1).
• Among the items stolen during the riots were pistols and other small arms, Kalashnikov rifles, sniper rifles, grenades, thousands of rounds of ammunition for all the firearms, and three armored military vehicles. After the violence, all of the vehicles were recovered or documented as destroyed, but half of all firearms and ammunition is still unaccounted for as of this paper's publication (1).
• This is not the first time that firearms have been looted from government stores; even more widespread seizure of arms and ammunition was reported during the April 2010 ethnic riots in Osh, where numerous weapons of various grades including military machine guns and grenade launchers were stolen (2). A complete list of stolen items is compiled from page 2 to page 3.
• Citizens of the Kyrgyz Republic are allowed to own firearms, provided that they are registered with the Ministry of the Interior. Private citizens are allowed to own rifles and shotguns for hunting, and private security firms are allowed to own semi-automatic pistols for work use. In total, there are perhaps 45,000 firearms in civilian possession, of which perhaps one third are appropriately registered (1).
• Official firearm statistics do show an increase in the use of rifled firearms in robbery and other crimes in the Kyrgyz Republic since the 2010 violence, from 38 incidents in 2009 to 65 in 2010 not including the period of the ethnic violence. However, this is not conclusive nor does it take into account other possible factors driving violence (3).
• News reports generally do not reflect an increase in the rate of violent crimes committed with firearms since the 2010 violence, indicating a possibility that the guns are not being used by criminal organization to perpetrate violence (4). Some sources have noticed an increase in the commonality of rifles and pistols in black market firearms, indicating that the stolen arms may have been sold (3).
• Despite the lack of publicized incidences of violence, many of the rioters from 2010 may have kept the firearms and ammunition for their personal safety. If this is the case, then violence could very easily spring up during another bout of political turmoil from a well-armed population (4). 
• The author provides a comprehensive list of border incidents between Uzbekistan and the Kyrgyz Republic for the period from 2010 to 2013 with sources provided on page 4.