Thread: Senator Moran attempts to block UN Arms Trade Treaty

Senator Moran attempts to block UN Arms Trade Treaty
Karl Dickey
West Palm Beach Libertarian Examiner


U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton on May 3, 2012 while in China.
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Kansas Senator Jerry Moran introduced legislation into the U.S. Senate to prohibit the Obama administration from negotiating away our gun rights as part of the UN Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). The ATT is a backdoor attempt to impose massive restrictions on U.S. gun rights. While negotiations on the treaty are being held behind closed doors, it is certain to include language that will:

Require the registration and licensure of American firearms;
Ban large categories of firearms;
Require the mandatory destruction of surplus ammo and confiscated firearms;
Define manufacturing so broadly that any gun owner who adds an accessory such as a scope or changes a stock on a firearm would be required to obtain a manufacturing license;
Require “microstamping” of ammunition.

The treaty could also be self-executing, which would mean that it would achieve its anti-gun objectives whether or not implementing legislation was passed by Congress.


Some people think the U.S. would never sign off on such a treaty. In 2009, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced the U.S. agreed to negotiate on the treaty. That’s a shift from the Bush administration, which declared the ATT dead on arrival. President Bush wouldn’t have delivered the treaty to the Senate for ratification, and Obama is expected to use this vehicle as a way to show his anti-gun base that he is doing something on the gun control front.

A number of Senators who purport to be pro-gun could possibly go along with the treaty. It is also likely that no Democrat Senators – even those from so-called red states – will vote against the president in the months leading up to the election.

All this makes the Moran bill vitally important. S. 2205 will not allow the Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration to even attempt to negotiate away our gun rights.

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