http://jhaines6.wordpress.com/2013/...ma-on-un-treaty-goes-viral-good-news-maybe-j/
2d source: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/...-S-Will-Not-Be-Bound-By-U-N-Arms-Trade-Treaty
The letter is rather long but if interested please see the links provided.
Senate Floor speech youtube: http://youtu.be/PeBQGKQhtAk
Third, the treaty includes only a weak non-binding reference to the lawful ownership and use of, and trade in firearms, and recognizes none of these activities, much less individual self-defense, as fundamental individual rights. It encourages governments to collect the identities of individual end users of imported firearms at the national level, which would constitute the core of a national gun registry, and it creates a national “responsibility” to “prevent . . . [the] diversion” of firearms, which could be used to justify the imposition of controls within the U.S. that would pose a threat to the Second Amendment and infringe on the rights protected therein.
2d source: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/...-S-Will-Not-Be-Bound-By-U-N-Arms-Trade-Treaty
During the past week, the House and Senate released bipartisan letters informing President Obama the "U.S. will not be bound by [the] U.N. Arms Trade Treaty" (ATT).
The treaty was signed by Secretary of State John Kerry on September 25.
The letter from the House was announced in a press release from Representative Mike Kelly (R-PA) on October 15.
Backed by 180 members of the House, the letter says:
Today the Peoples' House takes a stand for national sovereignty where the White House failed to do so. The ATT is a clear threat to the Constitutional rights to all Americans and should have never been signed. This letter makes absolutely clear to President Obama and his Cabinet that the United States Congress will not support any implementing legislation to give this dangerous treaty the legs it needs to take effect.
The letter is rather long but if interested please see the links provided.
Senate Floor speech youtube: http://youtu.be/PeBQGKQhtAk