US Rep To UN Says Obama Wants Senate To Ratify Arms Treaty

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US Rep To UN Says Obama Wants Senate To Ratify Arms Treaty

Thu Oct 20 2011 12:20
US Rep To UN Says Obama Wants Senate To Ratify Arms Treaty


CCRKBA.org

BELLEVUE, WA – -(Ammoland.com)- The Obama administration “is seeking advice and consent” for Senate ratification of an international small arms treaty, and also supports the inclusion of small arms in the UN Register of Conventional Arms, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms learned today.

The disclosure is found in the text of a statement to the First Committee of the 66th session of the UN General Assembly, delivered by Laura E. Kennedy, the permanent United States representative to the Conference on Disarmament. CCRKBA obtained a copy of the statement.

In her statement, Kennedy recalls that the United States in 1997, under the Clinton administration, signed the Inter-American Convention Against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Ammunition, Explosives and Other Related Materials. However, the Senate never ratified the document, and there was no interest in pushing the treaty during the Bush administration. American firearms rights activists have steadfastly fought against inclusion of small arms in any such treaty.

“More than half the members of the Senate have already advised Barack Obama that they will not ratify any treaty that threatens the Second Amendment rights of American citizens,” noted CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, “so it’s not clear why he is – according to Kennedy’s revealing statement – suddenly seeking Senate ratification of this measure.

“If the Obama administration is this eager to push adoption of a treaty that’s been gathering dust for eleven years,” he added, “one can only imagine how fast this president will want to see action on the proposed global Arms Trade Treaty.

“This suggests that Obama fears he may be a one-term president,” Gottlieb stated, “and he feels a compelling need to finally bring his anti-gun agenda to the surface and push it through.

We have known all along about his desire to bind this country to an international gun control scheme, and now Kennedy’s statement confirms that.”

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[MrBear13]

The people who push these agenda's are the same people that want to see us oppressed, IMO. I never understood why we comply with UN terms for laws being that we are a sovereign nation. Geneva convention comes to mind...

[pyld]

It's not going to clear the Senate. Point is moot.

[red dog]

as long as he is burning time on things he can,t enact he is leaving something else alone that he may well be able to. works for me. hopefully he is on a short timers list.

[c45man]

It's not going to clear the Senate. Point is moot.

The senate wouldn't even approve obama's so called jobs bill, does anyone believe that the same legislative body is going to approve this scheme set forth by a clubhouse of liars, thieves and dictators, aka the U.N?

[5711-Marine]

this is campaign strategy. his claim will be that 100% of the Republicans were ready to vote against it regardless of the Democrats also on record as planning to vote against it.

and the President is a SCOAMF

[9orangeletters]

this is campaign strategy. his claim will be that 100% of the Republicans were ready to vote against it regardless of the Democrats also on record as planning to vote against it.

and the President is a SCOAMF

Really? I always found Barack to be so well spoken.

This is just rhetoric, nobody is actually going to try and push that thing any farther than the waste bin, in this current landscape it would be political suicide.

[longcall911]

this is campaign strategy. his claim will be that 100% of the Republicans were ready to vote against it regardless of the Democrats also on record as planning to vote against it.

and the President is a SCOAMF

I agree with this assessment. Everything he does is campaign strategy. He can add this to the list of "Republicans blocked this, and this, and this, and this. . . we tried, but they blocked everything, especially the recovery. "

[NAV3]

It's not going to clear the Senate. Point is moot.

Agreed. As far as I've read, a lot of even the most left wing Dems are against this. Here's to hoping Obama doesn't make it for a second term

[elementfreak431]

Agreed. As far as I've read, a lot of even the most left wing Dems are against this. Here's to hoping Obama doesn't make it for a second term

I really don't mean this in any racist/derogatory or discriminatory way, but I think its safe to say that obama (or any other black presidential candidate) will be elected again for a long time. America took a huge step in over coming adversity by putting a black man in the white house. It was a blunder, and I think America as a whole has a bad taste in its mouth from Obama and will not be eager to re elect him or anyone else of the same skin color, IMO. Not trying to be racist, just realistic.