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UN Arms Control Treaty to be signed by Kerry

Even if this is not ratified at the moment, just because it is signed, the US is expected to abide by it until or if it is not ratified.

I expect that they will sit on it until they have enough votes to ratify it.

Or will try to.

With that said, GunnyGene raises some valid points.

This would give the UN the final say if we could provide our allies weapons, or even worse yet, would have the final say if something happened here if our allies could provide aid to us.

And for those who say that we would never need aid from oversea's or from our allies, it was France who provided weapons to our militia during the Revolutionary War, and several Euro countries who provided arms and ammunition during the civil war.

Do you really want the UN to have the final word in our affairs? Because at this second, they do.

This will also affect our economy negatively because the US exports a lot of arms and ammunition.
 
What the NRA says about the treaty, which is essentially what you and I have understood it to say:

Shortly before he was reelected, President Obama proclaimed to the rapturous cheers and applause of his supporters, "We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America."

Many at the time wondered exactly what sort of "fundamental transformation" was needed in what was already the most prosperous, peaceful, just, egalitarian, and powerful nation the world has ever known. A simple return to first principles, some would argue, is the better prescription to preserve the country's preeminence in the future...................................

A website coincidentally published by the University of Sydney in Australia summarizes the British gun control that the president referenced, with links to relevant provisions of British law. The "right to private gun ownership is not guaranteed by law," it states. That much is obvious by citing just a few specifics: "Civilians" are not allowed to possess semi-automatic firearms or handguns. Acquisition, possession, or transfer of a firearm or ammunition requires a license, and applicants for such licenses are required "to prove genuine reason to possess a firearm." Each firearm must be registered, and carrying a firearm in public, whether openly or concealed, is prohibited. Firearm licensees, moreover, may only possess "approved" quantities of ammunition. Similar polices apply in Australia. Transformative, in short, would be an understatement.

The extent to which the president seeks international guidance for American gun control became even more evident three days later, when Secretary of State John Kerry signed the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty on behalf of the Obama administration. Secretary Kerry marked the event by stating, "The United States is proud to have worked with our international partners in order to achieve this important step towards a … more peaceful world, but a world that also lives by international standards and rules."

We have often reported on the dangers posed by the broad and inherently ambiguous language of the Arms Trade Treaty. While it purports to focus on international trade in such items as "battle tanks," "combat aircraft" and "warships," its inclusion of "small arms and light weapons" is universally understood to encompass ordinary firearms. This is underscored by the treaty's non-binding, preambular reference to "the legitimate trade and lawful ownership, and use of certain conventional arms for recreational, cultural, historical, and sporting activities, where such trade, ownership, and use are permitted or protected by law." Needless to say, "battle tanks" and "warships" are nowhere used for "recreational" and "sporting" activities.

On the other hand, while the treaty recognizes the "inherent right of all States to individual or collective self-defence [sic]" (emphasis added), it nowhere acknowledges what the United States Supreme Court called the "central component" of the Second Amendment--the right of individual persons to self-defense.


Among many other things, the treaty establishes factors a participating country would have to consider before authorizing an export of covered arms to another country, including whether the exported arms would "contribute to or undermine peace and security" or the risk of their "being used to commit or facilitate serous acts of gender-based violence or serious acts of violence against women and children …." To mitigate these supposed risks, the exporting state could extract "confidence building measures" from the importing state.

To this end, "Each importing State Party shall take measures to ensure that appropriate and relevant information is provided, upon request, pursuant to its national laws, to the exporting State Party, to assist the exporting State Party in conducting its national risk assessment …. Such measures may include end use or end user documentation."

In other words, even if the United States never ratifies the treaty, it could be subject, as a condition of receiving firearms exported from a participating nation, to a requirement to hand over lists of individual "end users" of such guns. Thus, the stage is set for the United States either to be ostracized as an outlier in the global gun control community or to establish a national registry of firearms imported from other countries, as well as the Americans who eventually own them. Worse, the exporting nation could insist this registry be provided to it for "risk assessment" purposes.


More: http://www.nraila.org/legislation/feder ... ation.aspx
 
In todays news:

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thanks to Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK). An Inhofe floor amendment to shut down the UN Arms Trade Treaty passed the Senate by a vote of 59-41. The amendment is so far-reaching that it has been accused, probably correctly, of potentially shutting down parts of the United Nations if that organization continues to push the ATT.
As you know, that treaty could easily mandate gun bans, magazine bans, and gun registration. Like Choke Point, the Inhofe amendment probably chokes the life out of the UN Arms Trade Treaty, once and for all."
from: Gun Owners of America Email
 
Awesome news John...thanks for bringing it to our attention !!
 
I hope that this proves to be very positive news.

Thank you John A. for the update.
 
I agree Pawpaw.

I understand their importance to help stabilize the worlds' standing immediately following WW2 when they were founded, but they've not done anything what I consider beneficial since.

Just a bunch of beauracratic nonsense and money laundering if you ask me.
 
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