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    Secretary of State John Kerry is expected to sign an arms trade treaty opposed by the Senate and the gun lobby as early as Wednesday, and Republicans aren’t happy about it.
    Kerry’s plan to sign the treaty on the margins of the UN General Assembly in New York this week has sparked immediate criticism from GOP opponents.
    “This treaty is already dead in the water in the Senate, and they know it,” said Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services. “The Administration is wasting precious time trying to sign away our laws to the global community and unelected U.N. bureaucrats.”
    A majority of Senate oppose the treaty because it covers small arms, making ratification impossible in the short term.
    Background on the treaty via John Bolton and John Yoo:

    Even before his most ambitious gun-control proposals were falling by the wayside, President Obama was turning for help to the United Nations. On April 2, the United States led 154 nations to approve the Arms Trade Treaty in the U.N. General Assembly. While much of the treaty governs the international sale of conventional weapons, its regulation of small arms would provide American gun-control advocates with a new tool for restricting rights. Yet because the Constitution requires that two-thirds of the Senate give its advice and consent to any treaty, Second Amendment supporters still have a political route to stop the administration.


    Like many international schemes, this treaty has seemingly benign motives. It seeks to “eradicate the illicit trade in conventional arms and to prevent their diversion to the illicit market,” where they are used in civil wars and human-rights disasters. The treaty calls for rigorous export controls on heavy conventional weapons, such as tanks, missiles, artillery, helicopters and warships.


    Yet, as with many utopian devices, the treaty fails the test of enforcement. Some of the world’s largest arms traffickers either voted against the agreement or abstained. The U.S., quite rightly, already has the world’s most serious export controls in place, while nations such as North Korea, Syria, Iran, Russia and China will continue to traffic in arms with abandon.


    But the new treaty also demands domestic regulation of “small arms and light weapons.” The treaty’s Article 5 requires nations to “establish and maintain a national control system,” including a “national control list.” Article 10 requires signatories “to regulate brokering” of conventional arms. The treaty offers no guarantee for individual rights, but instead only declares it is “mindful” of the “legitimate trade and lawful ownership” of arms for”recreational, cultural, historical, and sporting activities.”



    Not a word about the right to possess guns for a broader individual right of self-defense.
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    They can sign whatever BS they want, getting the millions and millions of guns out of our hands is another story.
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    Maybe they should sign a treaty saying they will not give chemical weapons to syrian terrorists via Bengazi

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    I asked myself what would the Founding Fathers' generation do if they were transported to today? One thing's for sure they wouldn't have put up with any gun control from the beginning (well, besides slaves). It's America's fault for letting it get this far, and keep on going to its logical conclusion...

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    Quote Originally Posted by nframe View Post
    They can sign whatever BS they want, getting the millions and millions of guns out of our hands is another story.
    Roger that!!!!

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    I find it telling that 223/762 has become available while 22LR is still back ordered when 22 is easier to mfg.
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    Kerry can sign all he wants. Treaties have to be ratified by Congress. Kerry's sig doesnt mean Obama poo
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lenno View Post
    I find it telling that 223/762 has become available while 22LR is still back ordered when 22 is easier to mfg.
    My understanding is that center fire primers are being produced in place of .22LR. Fits with the current market status as well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by nframe View Post
    They can sign whatever BS they want, getting the millions and millions of guns out of our hands is another story.
    you got that right!

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    Quote Originally Posted by rsj View Post
    I asked myself what would the Founding Fathers' generation do if they were transported to today? One thing's for sure they wouldn't have put up with any gun control from the beginning (well, besides slaves). It's America's fault for letting it get this far, and keep on going to its logical conclusion...
    Our founders would have long since re-issued the DOI and declared WAR!

    Today's American's do not contain 1/100th of the determination and will that our founders had, and sadly, success, or the guise of it, has made most too soft, lazy and dumb to ever endure the hardships needed for national revival.

    America, that our fathers new, is a dying dream, and soon for many, that dream will turn into a tragic nightmare.

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