Obama revives talk of U.N. gun control :: NRA warns international treaty would strip 2nd Amendment rights
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House made last month to reverse longstanding U.S. policy and begin
negotiating a gun control treaty with the United Nations.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton first announced on Oct. 14 that the
U.S. had changed its stance and would support negotiations of an Arms
Trade Treaty to regulate international gun trafficking, a measure the
Bush administration and, notably, former Permanent U.S. Representative
to the United Nations John Bolton opposed for years.
Two weeks ago, in another reversal of policy, the U.S. joined a nearly
unanimous 153-1 U.N. vote to adopt a resolution setting out a
timetable on the proposed Arms Trade Treaty, including a U.N.
conference to produce a final accord in 2012.
"Conventional arms transfers are a crucial national security concern
for the United States, and we have always supported effective action
to control the international transfer of arms," Clinton said in a
statement. "The United States is prepared to work hard for a strong
international standard in this area."
Gun rights advocates, however, are calling the reversal both a
dangerous submission of America's Constitution to international
governance and an attempt by the Obama administration to sneak into
effect private gun control laws it couldn't pass through Congress.
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Bolton, for example, told Ginny Simone, managing editor of the
National Rifle Association's NRA News and host of the NRA's Daily News
program, "The administration is trying to act as though this is really
just a treaty about international arms trade between nation states,
but there's no doubt – as was the case back over a decade ago – that
the real agenda here is domestic firearms control."
He continued, "There's never been any doubt when these groups talk
about saying they only want to prohibit illicit international
trafficking in small arms and light weapons, it begs the whole
question of what's legal and what's not legal. And many of the
implications of these treaty negotiations are very much in their
domestic application. So, whatever the appearance on the surface,
there's no doubt that domestic firearm control is right at the top of
their agenda."
Lamont Cranston
> Gun rights supporters are up in arms over a pair of moves
> the White
> House made last month to reverse longstanding U.S. policy
> and begin
> negotiating a gun control treaty with the United Nations.
>
> Secretary of State Hillary Clinton first announced on Oct.
> 14 that the
> U.S. had changed its stance and would support negotiations
> of an Arms
> Trade Treaty to regulate international gun trafficking, a
> measure the
> Bush administration and, notably, former Permanent U.S.
> Representative
> to the United Nations John Bolton opposed for years.
Great news, Queef! Thanks for posting.
>
> Two weeks ago, in another reversal of policy, the U.S.
> joined a nearly
> unanimous 153-1 U.N. vote to adopt a resolution setting
> out a
> timetable on the proposed Arms Trade Treaty, including a
> U.N.
> conference to produce a final accord in 2012.
More great news!
>
> "Conventional arms transfers are a crucial national
> security concern
> for the United States, and we have always supported
> effective action
> to control the international transfer of arms," Clinton
> said in a
> statement. "The United States is prepared to work hard for
> a strong
> international standard in this area."
>
> Gun rights advocates, however, are calling the reversal
> both a
> dangerous submission of America's Constitution to
> international
> governance and an attempt by the Obama administration to
> sneak into
> effect private gun control laws it couldn't pass through
> Congress.
ROTFL!