In 2006, the United Nations decided it was time to explore “the feasibility, scope and draft parameters for a comprehensive, legally binding instrument establishing common international standards for the import, export and transfer of conventional weapons.”
The Bush administration voted against the creation of this proposed Arms Trade Treaty, believing that such oversight would be more productive on a national level. But on October 30th, 2009, Barack Hussein Obama reversed course, quite possibly turning the sovereignty of the United States, its Constitution and the rights of its gun owning public over to Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the member states. Many believe this decision to represent a serious threat to the right of the American people to keep and bear arms.
Claiming that the UN treaty would affect only international arms trafficking, Hillary Clinton said, “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.” But former UN Ambassador John Bolton is not buying that the treaty’s aims are purely international. In an interview with NRA News, Bolton stated, “the administration is trying to act as though this is really just a treaty about international arms trade between nations, but there’s no doubt…that the real agenda here is domestic firearms control.” He continued, “many of the implications of these negotiations are very much in their domestic application.”
Former congressman Bob Barr agrees with Bolton. “Even though [treaty advocates] all say ‘We are not going to involve domestic laws and the right to keep and bear arms, that won’t be affected by all this,’ that’s nonsense,” he says. “There’s no way…to ensure that firearm transfers internationally don’t fall into the hands of people that the UN doesn’t like…unless you have some sort of national regulation and national tracking.”
Taking it even further, Bolton states:
[A]fter the treaty is approved and it comes into force, you will find out that it…requires the Congress to adopt some measure that restricts ownership of firearms. The administration knows it cannot obtain this kind of legislation purely in a domestic context. They will use an international agreement as an excuse to get domestically what they couldn’t otherwise.
In July of 2010, Julianne Versnel, the Director of Operations for the Second Amendment Foundation, represented the foundation as an NGO delegate at the UN Arms Trade Treaty meeting. Her report is chilling to say the least. She writes:
[T]here appears to be little doubt that some sort of treaty will be adopted by 2014, if not by 2012. It is anticipated that the final treaty will attempt to register firearms, require micro-stamping, destruction of surplus ammunition on a very set schedule…and restriction on any transfer of arms including between private individuals…If the United States is a signatory and this is ratified by the US Senate, this UN treaty would be the law.
We know the Obama regime will sign on to this assault on the 2nd amendment. The vote of Republican senators will decide the outcome.
To contact your Congressional Representative use this link:
http://www.contactingthecongress.org/
To read more about this story use these links:
http://www.un.org/disarmament/convarms/ArmsTradeTreaty/html/ATT.shtml
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=116041
http://johnlott.blogspot.com/2010/07/report-on-un-arms-trade-treaty.html
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The Republican Congress has to draw up a resolution condemning and criminalizing the forfeiture of any constitutional issues and the bill of rights to the corrupt and tyrant driven U.N. The best course course of action would be to get out all together , Quit spending sovereign Americans monry to support them and get them off American soil .
Now IS the time time to defund the UN and move their destructive institution out of the USA.
Also a good time to Force OBAMA to PROVE beyond all reasonable doubt that he IS Eligible to be POTUS. If fo no other reason than to either Impeach him for Treason or arrest him for Fraud.
Let’s move for these two entities before there is a vote in the Senate
to ratify this toxic UN bogus treaty. Anything Obama proposes is
highly suspect and grounds for rejection. And he MUST be removed
in 2011, and ASAP!
Any treaty that violates the constitution is not valid according to the constitution. And we all know how our elected carrots have respect for the constitution! Thus, I will uphold my end to my dying day. You come for my guns, you have just entered a world you will not leave peacefully.
weRscrewed:
I have been waiting for this! The Stealth Jihadi in the White House has committed many impeachable acts and this infidel wants to know WHY HE HAS NOT BEEN? Do Obamapusses' tentacles reach that far, really? He will go down in history as the first non-citizen with an anti-American agenda to completely hoodwink the American people.
If the American people do awaken from their slumber all is lost.
It might already be too late to recover from the damage Obama has done
I am afraid that this would be the first step in a very big problem just like they just had/and still going onin the seas problem areas.
This treaty, "if" Obama signs it, will end up decided by the Supreme Court. As far as I can tell, Barack Obama has no authority whatsoever to surrender any constitutional right of any American citizen, whether by treaty or any other international document. This would be another of his semantical games. He tells people he is for Second Amendment rights, while behind the scenes he acts to undermine the very issue he told us he supported. Semantics is one of the real reasons Americans are furious with their federal government &/or politicians. Tell them what they want to hear, then do opposite once in office &/or behind closed doors! Where I come from, its called lying!
The surrender of a constitutional right can only be done by an individual citizen. It can be impeded or regulated, perhaps, but it cannot be ended. Obama will say all this is will be registration. Anyone with sense knows that registration anywhere else in the world always lead to disarmament of the citizenry. In many cases it also one day lead to the very government serving those people, to kill them. Millions died "after" they were disarmed in many nations through the past 50 or 100 years. Check it out for yourself if you doubt this!
Won’t do them any good to attempt to take our weapons. There’s too many of us. I never owned a gun untill the last year and now I have several with enough ammo to hold off an army of their thugs for a week or longer. My buds are the same way. With the muslims and their god Satan making a move to start “the end of days”, I believe we are truly entering that time as forecasted in the book of Revelation. We will fight on three fronts at least, as we have the muslims, drug cartels, La Raza, New Black Panthers, chinese, Russians and everyone else who wants a piece of America. They didn’t read their history books or else the liberals didn’t let them print the part about Americans kicking everybodys asses in every war since we’ve been a country. The story will remain the same, but they will learn it for themselves. Locked and Loaded!
This one of the many reasons why Obummer has got to be impeached.
Not only Impeached but tried for Treason and imprisioned for life.
This threat to the 2nd Amendmnent by Obama is the end. What a liar. We must not
let him go any further. It is time to stand up to the UN and do away with them as well. People have been running out and
buying guns . The three comments above are “right on”.
Well if they want my guns, I am about to strap on one of them and go to town. They can try to take then.
Seriously though, you are as free and you want to be. There will come a time when they will come to take them and I will exercise my Constitutional rights and send as many of the to hell as I can. Live free or die!
Well, little prince kenya and his raging case of political herpes (the Clintons) can sign all the "treaties" they like. When the commies and rag heads in the 'united nothing' decide it's time for me to give up my weapons, I say COME AHEAD! Funny thing about the Constitution: they can go so far as to completely overturn it and it will make not a single iota of difference. You see, my Constitution does NOT "give" me the rights that it describes…it simply ACKNOWLEDGES the fact that GOD DID. This nation was born in a war against this kind of tyranny, and personally, I have no problem going out the same way.
WHAT WOULD YOU EXPECT FROM THIS NO GOOD S.O.B. JUST ANOTHER WAY OF HIS WRECKING THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. NOTHING THIS S.O.B. DOES WOULD SURPRISE ME ANY MORE. IF HIS MOTHER WAS STILL LIVING, I BET HE WOULD PIMP FOR HER. BY THE WAY, I AM NOT POLITICALLY CORRECT. YOU MIGHT HAS GUESSED THAT ALREADY.
I think we are about ready for the test of Obummer’s skills at lying and double crossing us. We should know by mid-August of 2012. Keep your powder dry and weapons handy, we may need them most when unexpected. The people are beginning to meld into a viscous group that will slip in the weapons and eliminate the UN and Obama and company with a bloody battle, maybe without firing a shot, if we are lucky and smart enough. a