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Dead Constitution See other Dead Constitution Articles Title: UN Guns Treaty: When It Goes Into Effect, and How It Changes America's Firearms Laws UN Guns Treaty: When It Goes Into Effect, and How It Changes America's Firearms Laws Photo illustration. (Karen Bleir/AFP/Getty Images, file) By Spencer Durrant | Sunday, 25 January 2015 03:43 PM The guns treaty has been passed by the UN and is ready to go into effect across the world. Only Iran, Syria, and North Korea opposed the treaty when it passed in the organization’s general assembly in April 2013. The treaty, which seeks to prevent and control the illicit trade of weapons while regulating the international trade of them, includes measures such as creating a national gun registry; mandating control of firearms and ammunition; regulating the manufacture of gun parts; and limiting stores' ability to sell firearms. So what does this treaty, formally called the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty, mean for Americans and their right to bear arms? Gun rights advocates have said their Second Amendment rights will be infringed upon. “The UN Arms Trade Treaty is an attempt by other countries — including some despotic regimes — to try and infringe on our constitutional rights,” Catherine Mortensen, spokeswoman for the National Rifle Association, told TheBlaze. “While the NRA and a bipartisan majority of pro-gun Senators have succeeded in blocking this treaty’s ratification in the United States, this treaty is a very real threat.” Although the treaty presents a threat to gun rights advocates, TheBlaze reported that it is unlikely to pass the U.S. Senate. For any UN treaty to have any effect on American laws, it must first be ratified by a two-thirds majority of the Senate. Mortensen told TheBlaze that the NRA is still wary of the possibility of an executive order by President Barack Obama. Sens. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) and James Inhofe (R-Okla.) have actively fought against Senate ratification of the UN treaty. In a letter to President Obama, the two senators wrote “it is not in the national interest of the United States for the Senate to give its advice and consent to this treaty.” In an issue brief, the Heritage Foundation reported that the treaty “will come into force for its signatories 90 days after it is ratified by the fiftieth national signatory.” That occurred in late 2014. “The ATT is binding only on those nations that have fully ratified it, but its advocates are starting to make a new claim: that, after it receives its fiftieth ratification, it will become international law that will presumptively apply to the United States,” The Heritage Foundation’s report said. “In the coming year, Congress should hold hearings to reveal the full extent of the administration’s implementation of the treaty and ensure that the U.S. is not slowly pulled into compliance with it, as the activists desire.” Poster Comment: This article shows once again the Obummer tried to do and end run around Congress. He was absolute worst President in the history of the nation. My sister in Chicago said she had voted Democrat her whole life but could not vote for Obama, so she voted for McCain. I told her you still voted for evil since BOTH candidates were members of Council on Foreign Relations. BOTH were internationalists. https://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/inhofe-block-un-arms/2013/04/02/id/497530/#ixzz3Oi8iUQ8f Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
#1. To: BTP Holdings (#0)
I will still be able to buy ammunition that I want to buy. I will still be able to buy rifles/pistols/shotguns that I want to buy. I will still be able to buy machineguns/silencers/et al. This alleged "treaty" means nothing.
“With the exception of Whites, the rule among the peoples of the world, whether residing in their homelands or settled in Western democracies, is ethnocentrism and moral particularism: they stick together and good means what is good for their ethnic group." I own a certain shotgun. After I bought it, BATF reclassified it as a destructive device. Accordingly, I need a Class 3 permit to own it. I doubt they have the 4473 since it is likely the gun shop is still in operation. But even if they did, they have no idea where I am located. ;) "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
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