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Dead Constitution See other Dead Constitution Articles Title: WEB EXCLUSIVE: UN Arms Gun (Grab, Ban, Confiscation, Control) Trade Treaty, Exploded WEB EXCLUSIVE: UN Arms Gun (Grab, Ban, Confiscation, Control) Trade Treaty, Exploded March 25, 2013 AFP Archive 0 By Jeffrey Smith In the wake of Sandy Hook, a wave of moves to greatly restrict or eliminate Americans’ Second Amendment rights swept across the nation. In a series of often wild contests of political wills patriots nationwide have successfully fought off the first wave of efforts to take their rights. In Congress, for the moment, and in state legislatures, forces opposed to ownership of firearms were effectively slowed in their efforts. But in the wake of patriots having initially prevailed, a larger, far darker picture has emerged as to the genuine state of the Second Amendment movement leaving many long time firearms rights activists and knowledgeable gun owners privately very unsettled. Forces seeking to eliminate or greatly restrict Americans’ firearms rights stopped when it was clear that, first, a large number in Congress correctly saw the measures being proposed as the initial steps to confiscation along the lines of what has already occurred in British-controlled or influenced nations like Australia. Secondly, any prolonged debate on new firearms legislation would necessarily involve a far closer examination of the actual events of Sandy Hook, much of which still remains undisclosed, something no one in the Obama administration or law enforcement has any apparent desire for. Facing an effective stop to their efforts in Congress, forces opposed to gun ownership, which by this point included the entire United States-based left wing, liberal academia, almost all major non-governmental organizations (NGOs) the U.S. and world media and even foreign governments like China, turned their attention first to a state-by-state campaign. In this they were quickly successful in New York with a new law which imposes strong new requirements on gun ownership. Passed in record time, much of which was the result of closed-door late night negotiations, the NY SAFE Act quickly became the template for what anti-gun forces attempted to pass in dozens of states. But in the aftermath of the initial success, firearms rights advocates and a growing number of long-term observers of the fight to defend the Second Amendment began to seriously question how a legal disaster like what occurred in N.Y. could have happened so quickly with so little effective opposition from very well established and well-funded gun owners associations. Critics point to the fact that N.Y. has one of the strongest National Rifle Association (NRA) memberships and the state is the home of one of the nation’s oldest and well-established firearms owners’ organizations, the New York State Pistol and Rifle Association, which one of the group’s officers notes is two years older than the NRA itself. Firearms rights organizations in the N.Y. case only managed to mount a demonstration in Albany, the capital, after the passage of the NY SAFE Act, which mostly served to vent members’ anger at the measure and N.Y.’s far-left-leaning Governor Andrew M. Cuomo. The events in N.Y. have caused a basic question to emerge; how could a movement which ostensibly consists of many well-established and very well-financed gun rights organizations, have permitted what happened in N.Y.? The questioning has now broadened to a general examination of how well, or unwell, gun owners are being defended nationally. Attention has now shifted to what is occurring on a far higher level which, if now mishandled, has the power to end all firearms rights in America. Poster Comment: I was in local WalMart last year and was talking with an old boy. I told him, "Obama wants the U.N. to control our guns." He said, "We'll never give up our guns. That's the way we are." There are a lot of them out there just like that. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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