As New York City plays host to a conference that will shape the UN Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) into final form,most 2nd Amendment supporters are concerned that stealth language or overly broad applications woven into the document will serve to separate Americans from their right to keep and bear arms. After all,why else would preliminary versions of the Treaty be so difficult to obtain and U.N. pre-conference position statements remain consistently absent from the internet?
Barack Hussein Obama leads the most anti-gun rights Administration in the nation’s history. Hillary Clinton,Eric Holder,Janet Napolitano,and recently appointed ATF Acting Director B. Todd Jones have spoken often and passionately about the importance of implementing more restrictive gun control legislation.
But the gun-grabbing Regime will not be able to ratify the UN’s global gun control measure without first securing a 2/3rds majority of Senators to vote in favor. And it won’t be easy to convince 67 politicians to sign onto a document that countless critics have spent nearly a decade rightly representing as a worldwide assault on the 2nd Amendment. Especially not as the American public must once again be told that the document has to be “passed” in order to find out what’s IN it!
Late last year,the Heritage Foundation obtained an ATT “Draft Paper” from an NGO participating in the Treaty mark-up. The Paper makes it clear that the finished product would be broad in scope,controlling everything “from rifle scopes to battleships.” And although the Treaty purports to monitor only “international arms transfers,” document language shows the UN also wishes to control “internal transfers” as “any firearm transfer—meaning any change in ownership…might conceivably somehow affect another nation…”
Therefore,the ATT will demand that signatories control and monitor “transfers including ‘transport’ across national territory.” To accomplish this,a nation would necessarily “maintain records of all imports and shipments of arms that transit their territory,” creating records on “the type of arms transferred and their ‘end users’.” So as international records would be kept of all weapons bought and sold within the United States,the Treaty would create not only a global arms registry but the rules by which arms might be transferred and to whom.
Would Senators sympathetic to global arms control try to slip these and other unconstitutional ATT edicts past American voters?
DC politicians—including Republicans—have already written purposely misleading and legally ineffective language into both the 2012 and 2013 National Defense Authorization Acts for the sole purpose of deceiving the American public into believing that their constitutional rights were being looked after. As for treaties,they commonly include “reservations”,that is,language designed to “define and limit the effect of a ratified treaty.” A few dedicated,gun-grabbing Senators might get the idea of attaching a codicil to the ATT,claiming it would prevent the ratified Treaty from imposing upon the 2nd Amendment rights of the American people,thereby safeguarding the right to keep and bear arms.
Of course,they wouldn’t bother to inform Americans that the Arms Trade Treaty specifically forbids any reservations that are “incompatible with the object and purpose” of the Treaty! Would members of the Washington political class be so dishonest as to try such an underhanded stunt?
It’s doubtful that a sufficient number of Senators would risk the fury of the NRA and gun-owning voters. But then again,stranger things have certainly happened in the nation’s capitol. After all,a Supreme Court Chief Justice has just prostituted both himself and the Constitution!
Maybe keeping tabs on the Senate wouldn’t be such a bad idea.
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There is NO way that 67 Senators will vote for this treaty. I think that this is much ado about nothing. Already a letter from 54 Senators has made it to the White House telling King Obama that they will NEVER vote for this treaty. Besides,who is going to enforce the treaty? The Military? Hell,70% of the Military don't like Obama anyway. So,the UN? I can just about guarantee that if one Blue Helmeted UN "Soldier"shows up to try to confiscate our weapons,our Military,whose oath,like ALL other Government workers is to the Constitution,not King Obama,they will be sent with their tails between their legs and I'd bet that King O will be impeached before ANY Blue Helmet can get within 100 miles of our shore. The Citizens will not put up for it. So,really now,can ANYONE take this seriously?
And who would have ever thought that they would have voted for the colossal bill we know as Obamacare? I don't trust any of these suckers!!! Rep. or Dems. They are ALL more Crooked than a barrel of cork screws!!!
What they do not count on is the Concord Bridge moment that ratification of the ATT would cause. Americans are already angry at the many assaults on their Constitutional rights by the last two administrations,but they have always said that the Second Amendment would be the last resort,and they may have been prophetic in that assumption.
You rubes are a hoot. Really. You have basements full of guns and you're intellectually unarmed.
And you're armed with a big mouth and a sore ass.
….fred,are you alive?…seeing what these criminals in the whore-house have done to its people,you think they are above that? really?….wake up man,your freedoms are at stake!!
….the senate is filled with traitors,communist and marxist!! if they wont comply,with obama,he will just write a new law to get around it…..i have no hope these loosers will uphold the law in any way!!
***Someone please tell me how a U.N. treaty,even if ratified by Congress,can supercede the Constitution?
The Constitution actually states that treaties signed with other countries become a part of the Constitution. However,all treaties can always be UNratified………
I would like to see the U.N. send someone to confiscate my or anybody else's weapons. It sure would be an easy way to make the U.N. and it's cronies to become extinct. And as or the U.S. military to do it,I do not believe for one minute they would comply with such an order. Could be very interesting. over 2 million patriots with arms and a 200,000 military people at least half of whom have friends and family who HAVE THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS AND THEY DO.
Ratification can be nullified by the states and the citizens of the states. The Constitution remains the law of the land. Whatever is contrary to that is illegal,and we simply ignore it. It will require a heck of a lot more than 67 traitors in the Senate to rape us and shred our Constitution.
The conservatives in Congress has already proven that they will change their course in the middle of the stream. I don’t trust but a few of them to be true to the constitution or to we the people. It seems that very few are concerned that God is going to hold “everyone”accountable for their actions in public and in their secret activates.
When one the likes of the bum that thinks HE is God runs the country with no opposition,our only hope is not any branch of government but God and He alone. My dear fellow citizens,it is time for all of us to humble ourselves and seek God’s face,turn from our wicked ways and trust that He will save us from all the activity of the evil one!
May God Bless America!!
The conservatives in Congress has already proven that they will change their course in the middle of the stream. I don’t trust but a few of them to be true to the constitution or to we the people. It seems that very few are concerned that God is going to hold “everyone”accountable for their actions in public and in their secret activates.
When one the likes of the bum that thinks HE is God runs the country with no opposition,our only hope is not any branch of government but God and He alone. My dear fellow citizens,it is time for all of us to humble ourselves and seek God’s face,turn from our wicked ways and trust that He will save us from all the activity of the evil one!
May God Bless America!!
WARNING WARNING!!!!! Should this treaty be ratified by the senate,there will be blood in the streets as the government tries to take our guns and distory the 2nd admendment. They will take my guns from my cold dead hands and this is my oath in BLOOD. Beware un,You will be the first target on this countrys'list.
You want a revolution on your hands,just try to take away the 2nd admendment.
This treaty like so many laws that chip away at our second Amendment rights,is just another move by the Democrat Marxists to get what they want,no civilians owning guns. The Dems play long ball,they know that people today might resist them taking our guns,but our kids may not. It's just like taking our Health Care Freedom from us,it took them 100 Years,but they got it.
Never ever vote for a Democrat.
A war is coming folks. We as Patriots need to be prepaired to pay the ultimate sacrifice of our lives to theTree of Liberty. This war is coming and our elected officials will do nothing to stop it. As a matter of fact,they probability will be in the streets helping our enemy. I do not say this lightly. The current UN treaty beinging negotiated in New York seeks to remove the 2nd admendment from our constitution and take away our guns. We cannot alow this to happen. It will take all of us to defeate this with our elected representatives. This treaty must never be ratified. My greatest fear is that all these events are going to start before the November elections. I pray this is not the case however,I see certain signs that there are powers at work behind the scenes at work to make this happen. BE WATCHFUL MY FRIENDS BE WATCHFUL.
He might not start out taking your guns,but what about his reposed 500% tax on all ammunition and look at all the restrictions he could put on guns. Hussein has already said he wants to do away with all single or dbl barrel or any other type of shotgun.
Crazymountain is a plant from Obama or he is just dumb. Who are the senators going to be after the election? Don't know neither does Crazy. Obama is out to take all our rights and you have idiots telling you it is not true. WHAT HAVE YOU GAINED IN THE LAST 31/2 yrs?