Christmas Eve to Deliver U.N. Gun Control Treaty, and It Has Some Gun pros worried

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Second Amendment advocates are concerned that the Obama administration will use a United Nations treaty as a basis for executive action on gun control.


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Thompson automatic submachine guns. (AP)

The U.N. Arms Trade Treaty is set to take effect on Christmas Eve. Though the United States delegation to the U.N. has supported the treaty, it has very little chance of being ratified by two-thirds of the Senate. But there is still reason for concern, said Catherine Mortensen, spokeswoman for the National Rifle Association.

“We are worried about an end-run around Congress, Mortensen told TheBlaze. “Barack Obama or a future anti-gun president could use ATT and international norms compliance to rationalize enacting gun control policies through executive actions, especially in the import and export realms.

“Even now, with an existing appropriations rider prohibiting action to implement the treaty unless it is approved by Congress, administration officials are publicly professing support for international efforts to bring the treaty into effect. Thats outrageous,she added.

The U.N. General Assembly adopted the treaty in April 2013 with a vote of 154 to 3. The State Department points out that only Iran, Syria and North Korea opposed it.

“Make no mistake, we would never think about supporting a treaty that is inconsistent with the rights of Americans citizens to be able to exercise their guaranteed rights under our constitution, Secretary of State John Kerry said a few months after the passage of the treaty.

Still, the treaty has some very unsavory supporters, said Mortensen of the NRA.

“The U.N. Arms Trade Treaty is an attempt by other countries including some despotic regimes to try and infringe on our constitutional rights,� Mortensen said. “While the NRA and a bipartisan majority of pro-gun Senators have succeeded in blocking this treatys ratification in the United States, this treaty is a very real threat.

The parties are required to establish export and import controls for combat vehicles, aircraft and small arms and light weapons. The treaty further says that Each State Party shall establish and maintain a national control system, including a national control list, in order to implement the provisions of this Treaty.

It further says that Each State Party is encouraged to include in those records: the quantity, value, model/type, authorized international transfers of conventional arms covered under Article 2 (1), conventional arms actually transferred, details of exporting State(s), importing State(s), transit and trans-shipment State(s), and end users, as appropriate.

“The United Nations is trying to establish what they call basic norms and bring international pressure on the United States to eviscerate our Second Amendment Rights and they have found willing allies in the Obama administration and John Kerry,Mortensen added.

Investors Business Daily editorialized this week warning that Obama could use it as a basis for executive action on guns, even if it is not ratified by the Senate.

All treaties must be ratified by two-thirds of the Senate, and thats not about to happen in the case of the unratified Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), particularly after the 2014 election that gave the GOP Senate control, the editorial said. The same, of course, could have been said about the Kyoto Protocol and other climate change deals that mandate that governments tie their economies in knots to meet arbitrary emission goals to save the planet. The Senate has not and wont ratify any of those either. Yet a president who pays no attention to Congress or the Constitution has through Environmental Protection Agency regulations sought to impose Kyoto and cap-and-trade through regulation and fiat

Alabama voters adopted a state constitutional amendment to guarantee for the right to bear arms after lawmakers cited the threat of international agreements the could limit gun rights.

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Would Obama do an end run around Congress on gun rights?

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/...#ixzz3J4AukTJj

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He's got a pen and a phone? Good for him and his mother.

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Marijuana legalization is violating UN treaties....

Marijuana legalization in the US states of Colorado and Washington may lead to new challenges for the Barack Obama administration. A Brookings Institution report released last week suggests drug reform could cause the United States to withdraw from international treaties that “commit the United States to punish and even criminalize activity related to recreational marijuana.”

The report notes that while the Obama Administration asserts they comply with the treaties “because they leave room for flexibility and prosecutorial discretion,” this situation may not be sustainable in the long term.

“That will create more and more tension with our international commitments to suppress marijuana. At that point, it will be extraordinarily difficult for the [United States] to maintain that it complies with its obligations.”

http://panampost.com/panam-staff/201...m-un-treaties/



UN Treaties do not have the force of law. Yes?

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He can stick his pen and phone up his ass.