Victor Bout, who became famous for running guns into
improvised air strips in Africa in exchange for raw diamonds,
is a Russian national. Leonid Minin, arrested in Milan, Italy
on August 5, 2000 for selling arms to the Revolutionary
United Front (RUF) in Sierra Leone, is from Ukraine.
-- Hollywood Lobbies U.N. on Gun Control
by Kenneth R. Timmerman, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2006
THAT DOES NOT MATTER.
Hollywood blames a fictional American Yuri Orlov.
IANSA blames the NRA.
The Victor Bouts and Leonid Minins are NOT in the
crosshairs of Hollywood or the UN, us NRA hunters ARE!
from my letters-to-the-editor archives
Carl Naaman Brown - 2003 Aug 24 -- UN and Guns
The official U.S. government delegation objected to U.N.
language against private ownership of personal firearms
by civilians. The language on private ownership was the
subject of protracted debate. The U.S. delegation did
support policies aimed at illegal international trafficking
in small arms which was supposed to be the subject of the
conference.
The International Action Network on Small Arms is an
umbrella organization of 500 world-wide gun control groups
with widely different agendas founded in Britain in 1998,
the year after the law was passed in Britain ordering the
confiscation of all legally registered handguns. Flush with
that success in Britain, the gun control movements did
indeed lobby the U.N. to intervene in private ownership of
guns within the borders of other copuntries including the
U.S. under the color of controlling illicit trade in small
arms. IANSA whose spokesperson is Rebecca Peters (whose
proudest achievement was the 1996 confiscation and destruction
of 640,000 firearms registered to lawabiding Asutralian
citizens), is financed by George Soros, an international
billionaire with his own visions of a world restructered
to his ideas.
See iansa.org
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During the UN Conference on Illicit Trade in Small Arms and
Light Weapons, July 9 to July 20, 2001, the Coalition for
Gun Control told the U.N.: "In the United States, where gun
control is almost a dirty word, the number of homicides by
handguns is 62.4 per 100,000...." According to the FBI Uniform
crime reports, the U.S. homicide rate BY ALL MEANS was six
(6) per 100,000 per year, of which 62.4 percent were by
shooting, making a handgun homicide rate of 3.6 per 100,000
per year, NOT 62.4. This statistical trickery prompted the
National Rifle Association of America to seek certification
with the U.N. as a non-government organization (NGO) to
answer the gun control groups. The UN granting NGO status
to NRA upset IANSA and HCI.
The U.N. had to issue a pamphlet stating: "The focus of the
conference is on illicit trade in small arms, not the legal
trade, manufacture or ownership of weapons, The U.N.
conference will have no effect on the rights of civilians to
legally own and bear arms."
Illegal trafficking in weapons is exemplified by the siezure
in Oakland, California, of two thousand AK47 full-automatic
assualt rifles from the Chinese freighter Empress Phoenix in
1996, and a similar seizure of a shipping container in San
Diego labelled "sewing machine parts" that contained machineguns
and grenades. It is suspected these seizures were just a
fraction of the illicit smuggling of bootleg weapons to
criminal gangs. This is an example of the problem the U.N.
and Kofi Annan wanted to address: the illicit traffic for
unlawful use.
On the handgun ban in Britain, the Centre for Defence Studies
at King's College, London, reported: "....the short-term impact
strongly suggests that there is no direct link between the
unlawful use of handguns and their lawful ownership."'
Ann Pearston, founder of the Snowdrop Campaign to ban handguns
in England, answered: "This completely misses the point of what
we were trying to do. We never thought that there would be any
effect on illegal gun crime, because that is a totally separate
issue.... What we were campaigning for was to make sure that a
civilian could not be legally trained to use a handgun."
The international gun control groups want to hijack
the U.N. policy on illicit small arms trade to achieve their
utopian goal of a world free of legal gun ownership,
a world where only governments and criminals would have arms.
This fact has to be faced before a workable policy on
illicit traffic can be formulated.
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Reasonable control to prohibitionists is always prohibition.
The effect of international gun control is a world where
the law-abiding are disarmed, and only governments and
outlaws, the Charles Taylors and Idi Amins, have arms.
since he is left handed.
