NRA Veep Wayne LaPierre is all wound up by the recent signing of the U.N. Small Arms Trade Treaty. Click here to read the text of the treaty. Make the jump for Wayne’s presser (coming to a fund-raising letter to you soon). Click here for the Gun Owners of America’s treaty takedown. Click here for Senator Jerry Moran’s six-part kvetch. Or click here to learn more about camel-cavalry.
FAIRFAX, Va. –-(Ammoland.com)- The tyrants and dictators at the United Nations will stop at nothing to register, ban and, eventually, confiscate firearms owned by law-abiding Americans like you and me. The U.N. has been working for nearly 15 years to force its gun banning Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) on the United States. Now, thanks to President Barack Obama, they are closer than ever . . .
This past June, Obama helped the U.N. pass the ATT, thereby openly inviting the world’s worst human rights abusers to dictate gun policy here in the United States. Obama’s Secretary of State, John Kerry, excitedly announced that he and President Obama “look forward to signing it,” which has now been done.
By signing the U.N. gun-ban treaty our government will be placing a ticking time bomb at every American gun owners’ front door.
That’s because once a treaty like the ATT is signed, it never dies. Even if we prevent a two-thirds majority of the U.S. Senate from ratifying the ATT this year, next year or even the year after that, there is nothing to stop a future Senate from dusting off the treaty and ratifying it 10, 20 or even 50 years from now. The text of the treaty specifically states that it “shall be of unlimited duration.”
Despite the half-truths and outright lies coming from the Obama administration, the U.N. and its gun-ban allies in the media, the ATT would potentially create an international gun registration system that could eventually pave the way for the full-blown confiscation of firearms owned by American gun owners.
Specifically, Articles 8, 12 and 15 of the treaty would create international pressure (and the perfect excuse) for signatory nations to compile “records” of all gun owners who purchase firearms imported into their country—and then supply this sensitive private information to governments of exporting countries.
In other words, if you bought a shotgun made by an Italian gun maker, the U.S. government would have an obligation to the international community to keep a record of your purchase. Worse, it could be forced as a condition of continuing to receive exports of Italian firearms to provide this information to the Italian government. This would result in nothing less than international gun registration.
If the U.S. refused to take part in the U.N.’s international gun registry, other nations could potentially ban their domestic firearm manufacturers from exporting firearms to the United States. Considering imported firearms make up more than one-third of the new firearm market in the U.S., this could drive many foreign gun manufacturers out of business, significantly increase the cost of commonly used rifles, shotguns and handguns, and have an immediate and devastating impact on American gun owners.
Those who still believe the United Nations is a human rights organization with the best of intentions are kidding themselves. The U.N. doesn’t stop violence, murder and genocide. It catalogs it, documents it, forms commissions about it, and when the fire rages out of control, it calls the United States for help.
The U.N.’s driving mission is to accumulate power at the expense of the sovereignity of individual nations and fundamental individual rights, and its gun-ban treaty proves it.
After all, no human right known to mankind is more essential to a free and just society than the individual right of law-abiding citizens to protect themselves and their loved ones in the face of criminal violence. That’s why our Founding Fathers enshrined this freedom in the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry and Samuel Adams knew that “liberty and the pursuit of happiness” are not possible without “life”—and that all too often life is not possible without the fundamental right to use a firearm in self-defense.
As NRA members, you and I are the brick wall standing between the United Nations and our Second Amendment freedoms. If the U.N. gun-ban treaty is ever signed and ratified into law, we may never get a second chance to save the Second Amendment.
So please, call your U.S. Senators and urge them to stand strong—publicly and defiantly—against the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty. Recruit your fellow gun owners and patriotic friends and neighbors to join NRA and take an active role in this fight to protect our freedom and our sovereignty from this treacherous assault.
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For some reason, when people say perps always win, seeing a granny react calmly in the face of a crazed mutt and his felonious assault ready owner makes me smile real big aand laugh. If a woman old enough to be the grandparent of her perp (dog notwithstanding, icing on the cake) fends him off…anyone can if they so choose.
Your wife knows that all she has to do to get you frisky is put a little Hoppe’s #9 behind her ears.
While it’s true that a ban on the importation of foreign arms into the US would result in higher prices for guns domestically, this effect would be mitigated by an increase in domestic production due to the increased demand and competition vacuum over the long term. I have no fear of running out of affordable guns. For that matter I already have far more guns than I ‘need’, if significantly fewer than I want.
The Newtonian reaction however is that some if not many arms exporters to the US would virtually immediately be bankrupted. Thus US manufacturing grows while foreign competition suffers. . . not something that the other signatories likely anticipated, nor would accept. This fact alone might well nullify any enforcement of the treaty, particularly among those nations with large investments in arms exports to the US (meaning the economically important ones to our cheap supply).
The other major flaw in these fears is that it presupposes that anyone is actually interested in enforcing the terms of the treaty (besides the current US administration). UN treaties and resolutions are so routinely ignored that they generally carry no weight whatsoever and also generally assume that the enforcer of those that are to be honored will be the US itself. Thus these fears conflagrate from the unlikely scenario that the US will enforce an unpopular and unimportant treaty to which it is not a legal signatory and which is economically harmful domestically and among several of its more favored allies and trade partners.
In other words the Italians are never going to ask who in the US bought guns from Berretta, because they frankly don’t care and it isn’t in their best interests to even ask such questions, and so enforcement would look something like the US insisting that the Italian government create and maintain such a database, which would presumably be filled with information that would require violation of US law for the US to even gather . . . it only becomes more absurd the further you consider the possibilities. This treaty has no weight, no enforcement mechanism, no purpose for being and precious little interest worldwide aside from the current president of the US using it to appear to be ‘doing something’ for those in his party’s base who are pro civilian disarmament without actually doing anything that would put democrats in the senate at risk.
Simply put the whole thing is a fundraising bonanza for the NRA from among its low information contributors and likewise for the same under the umbrella of the DNC, all the while actually doing and meaning absolutely nothing at all for the POTG.
In the final analysis a quote falsely attributed to Yamamoto rings as true today as it ever did: “You cannot invade the US, there is a rifle behind every blade of grass.”
I agree with the dogs off the leash 100% Chris. I have dogs that I take hiking with me all the time. They are always on a leash for their own protection. I have come across countless off-leash dogs that harass my very patient, but protective GSDs. The owners always seem so nonchalant about it. The irresponsibility is astounding. They always say “my dog is great off the leash”, yet they never seem to be able to verbally control their dog(s). Last week I had an off leash pitt bull mix approach me and my GSD on a forest trail. I told my dog to go into a sit (which she did) and I stood between her and the approaching pitt, trying to get it to turn around. The approaching dog growled at me, my GSD charged (still attached by a leash to my left hand) and chased the pitt away, but immediately returned to me. The owner (who I later confronted and, of course, took offense) then comes around the bend texting on her phone completely oblivious to her dog or the world around her.
I gotta be honest. I’m one of those people whose dog is always off leash, and I make no apologies for it. The difference between your example and my situation is my dog is very responsive to verbal commands. She’s quite protective and will growl at approaching strangers, but will immediately turn it off and return to me when I tell her to do so. It always amuses me when I tell her to sit, and she does it, right then, even though she’s 30+ feet from me, and the person who was looking at her apprehensively says, “Wow, she really listens to you.” I take a small amount of credit for training her well (about 10%), but the truth is I got really lucky to have a really smart dog who wants to obey me.
The catch to that is, also unlike your example, I can’t really have my head down in my phone too much. I pay attention to what’s going on around me, so that I can see the things that she might key off of before she does. That way I can point her away, or at least be prepared for her to perk up, so that I can turn her off.
Note: All that good stuff I wrote above has about a 50% chance of being completely off the table if there are squirrels involved. But only squirrels. She couldn’t give a damn about cats. Oh, and stupid little yappy dogs. She thinks those are squirrels.
I have had people shrink back at my leashed hounds because they appear to be showing aggression toward a person close by. What they are doing is alerting to some other creature in the general vicinity. I always try to tell them that the dogs aren’t barking at them. I’d be really pissed off if someone sprayed them.
About a month ago someone with their leashed GSD barged in on my guys when they had something treed. My Plott didn’t appreciate it and got right in the 100 lb dog’s face and him cowering in seconds. Dogs, like people, don’t always make the right choice.
This is random but slowly driving me mad; the title of this post misspells ‘Random’ and more bothersome, under Leave a Reply in the comments section it states “Please use your real name instead of YOU company name or keyword spam.” If someone could change that to ‘your’ I could stop cringing.
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Came in late just to say…..STFU you statist douche bag.
Cute treaty. It doesn’t change The Constitution, and doesn’t mean squat until a lot of countries sign it, then it still doesn’t mean squat.
Once I’m out of uncle sam’s canoe club, Texas will be my permanent home of residence. DFW, in specific. No income taxes, gun friendly, business friendly, and I can have the biggest gas guzzler truck, a sports car, a huge house, and a pool, for about 1/3 of what it’d cost me back home (MD). Screw the liberals and their policies.
Tin foil hats are cheap Wayne! Go make a few.
TaoFledermaus should have hit the gummy with a 9mm FMJ round. It would have settled the caliber wars. My guess it would have gone through with more retained energy which would prove that the 45 is the more damaging round since it would have dumped more energy into the target.
Even if they did ban foreign companies from exporting guns to America, they could always do what VW, BMW, Toyota, Honda, and other car manufacturers do, open a plant in America and produce them here. That’s how foreign car manufacturers get around Americas import limits.
When you evaluate every purchase in ammo or guns? (I believe economists refer to this as the true cost) As in, “This this washer and dry cost me an Ar-15 and a cheap Kimberly” or “let’s cut the food budget in half, that would get me few boxes of 9mm and .22lr a week!”
The M1910 #19074 used by Princip was chambered in .380 ACP. This is a fact.
“Jerry: I’m not negotiating. You know those Charlston Heston words.”
You should get elected to Congress 🙂 You’d fit right in.
How is that working for us? More states have limited our rights in the last year than ever before. Continue with same tactics and enjoy the same result.
“BTW: liberals typically don’t join the NRA – they are afraid of guns. Not afraid of criminals – just the guns.”
Stranger things have happened, like oh wait a black democratic president….
Just so people don’t think I’m being racist, I’m commenting on political shift of the democratic party during the mid part of last century.
i love texas…good food, the best music around, mostly like minded folks
and while i am considering heavily a move from my native state of Michigan(which is about as blue as a red state can get without making the official transition to smurf city) i must say that Texas is not one of my go to states for one simple, but very big reason.
they do not allow handgun open carry, there is very limited circumstances for 18-20 to be able to carry a firearm in public, limited mostly to rifles and shotguns.
Alaska, Arizona, Kentucky, Virginia, west virginia and even arkansas are actually much much more firearms friendly, contrary to popular(uneducated) opinion.
now if texas was to get rid of their racist open carry ban(OC was originally banned and CC to require a may issue permit in an effort to bar blacks from bearing arms, as is the case with all no OC states with exception to new york and illinois) then it would probably move to #1 on my list in a heartbeat, im a big country boy and for folk like me texas would be heaven, i just cant go there if they continue to deny civil rights based on reconstruction era laws.
Why is it that people like this waste of space leave their home country, but get upset when America isn’t just like the country they left behind?
The idea behind traveling is to go somewhere that is different then the place you just left, don’t like it here, go back or find some place different.
What is pwned?
Authorities? Hate to break it to you Piers. We ain’t peasants or serfs. Go back to your trailer park of a country and kiss the queens……..
Those living in the past have not noticed that Michigan is moving in the right direction. Liberal gun laws. Recently became a right to work state. Republican governor who balanced the budget. Major progress in eliminating blue death spiral in Detroit as a result of the old mayor going to jail and the bankruptcy. And we have the country’s best gun author Brian Patrick. Brian has turned the left’s academic tools back on them.
Wow, fast response. Thanks
It’s not so much the property that’s important, it’s the resistance to the petty tyranny that unchecked will develop into larger scale tyranny.
That being said, who knows the importance of that bike to its owner? Can he easily replace it? (Should he have to?) If he loses his means of transportation, will he lose his ability to get to his place of employment? If he loses his job & income, what be the impact on his life/health and to his family? I suspect the reason that they used to hang horse thieves wasn’t because they valued a horse more than a man’s life. It was probably because that horse was essential to the owner’s well being. $100 may not be a big deal to many of us but to some it may be the difference between living in an apartment and living on the street.
Resistance to tyranny is a community service.
If only they all ended this way. Hell of a lot cheaper than jail/prison for us folks too.
My property was bought using money I made. I made that money by trading my time for it. And that time is a portion of my life. And any portion of my life is worth infinitely more than the life of any criminal filth on the planet, regardless of their crime.
Can we start a fundraiser to buy his plane ticket?
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“Prime time propaganda” by Ben Shapiro. A must read.
Very strange. When confronted with the reality of violence, some people accept it and prepare so they can have a fighting chance if it happens again. Others insist that they are powerless, and that somebody else do something to change the world around them. The former is an adaptive response, the latter wishful thinking. The fact that so many wishful thinkers are able to thrive and survive shows how little violence most of us face. People like that didn’t tend to last very long during rougher times in history.