NAGR has a copy of the UN ARMS Treaty available for download or viewing. You can find it here:
http://nagr.org/UN_Draft_Treaty.pdf
Read and discuss.
http://nagr.org/UN_Draft_Treaty.pdf
Read and discuss.
FACT CHECK: Treaty unlikely to curb US gun rights
By TOM RAUM
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Negotiators at the United Nations are working to put final touches on a treaty cracking down on the global, $60 billion business of illicit trading in small arms, a move aimed at curbing violence in some of the most troubled corners of the world. In the United States, gun activists denounce it as an end run around their constitutional right to bear arms.
"Without apology, the NRA wants no part of any treaty that infringes on the precious right of lawful Americans to keep and bear arms," National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre told the U.N. this month. "Any treaty that includes civilian firearms ownership in its scope will be met with the NRA's greatest force of opposition."
And treaty opponent John Bolton, who was President George W. Bush's ambassador to the U.N., wrote that gun-control advocates "hope to use restrictions on international gun sales to control gun sales at home."
But what both ignore is a well-enshrined legal principle that says no treaty can override the Constitution or U.S. laws.
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The [court] also has ruled separately that treaty obligations may not infringe on individual constitutional protections and rights within U.S. borders. This goes back at least to a 1920 ruling that a migratory bird treaty with Canada, which prohibited the hunting or capturing of certain birds, was an unconstitutional interference with states' rights under the 10th Amendment.
Read and discuss.
If you aren't willing to, then why should anyone else?
The UN treats this as 'customary law', which basically means silence = consent: Unless the US specifically enacts a federal law STATING that the treaty is null and void, even if not ratified, the UN still considers it enforceable upon US citizens.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world...l-arms-trade/2012/07/27/gJQAkli2EX_story.html
Dead in conference because they couldn't sort out all the disagreements in time.
"This was stunning cowardice by the Obama administration, which at the last minute did an about-face and scuttled progress toward a global arms treaty, just as it reached the finish line," said Suzanne Nossel, executive director of Amnesty International USA. "It's a staggering abdication of leadership by the world's largest exporter of conventional weapons to pull the plug on the talks just as they were nearing an historic breakthrough."