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GreyGeek:
Just got this email:

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BREAKING NEWS Tuesday, April 2, 2013 11:52 AM EDT
United Nations General Assembly Approves Landmark Arms Trade Treaty
The United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to approve the first-ever treaty to regulate the enormous global trade in conventional weapons, for the first time linking such sales to the human-rights records of the buyers.

The vote on the Arms Trade Treaty came after an attempt to achieve a consensus on the treaty among all 193 member states of the United Nations failed last week, with Iran, Syria and North Korea blocking it. Those three countries, often ostracized as pariahs, contended the treaty was full of deficiencies and had been structured to be unfair to them.

The treaty would require states exporting conventional weapons to develop criteria that would link exports to avoiding human rights abuses, terrorism and organized crime. It would also ban shipments if they were deemed harmful to women and children. Countries that join the treaty would have to report publicly on sales every year, exposing the process to levels of transparency that rights groups hope will severely limit illicit weapons deals.

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So, will  our  State Department and Congress ignore  the 2nd Amendment and pass universal gun "registration", changing, it to confiscation when  all the  records are in just to comply with "public" reporting of sales?   Theoretically, that treaty should only apply to sales by our governments to groups  or governments outside out country, but it could also be used to block sales of commercially made weapons overseas, or those made overseas from sales here.

Don't you just love it when tyranny hides behind the women and children, who usually suffer the most when tyrants take over?

Gary:
Once the water was up to the deck chairs, the titanic was doomed.

Who here really thinks we are not already in water up to our knees?

We can slow the progression, and we should do anything we can to do so, but will citizen owned guns and the Second Amendment be around in another 100 years?  50 years? 20 years? 10 years? 5 years? 2 years? 1 year?

I think it is a slope, slippery at that, and it is an issue of when, not if. 

This is another nail in the coffin.  Sure hate to see this going the direction it is moving.

abbafandr:
If I recall correctly, the Senate has to ratify any treaty.  Since this takes 60 votes, it should be a tall order.  A gentle word to Fischer and Johanns is in order >:D

NE Bull:
I'm pretty sure Fischer is good to go seeing as how she just warned/ updated us all on her Facebook page earlier today. 
As for Johanns, he has let me/us down recently (see Monsanto Protection act) and needs to remember the people he represents.

Lorimor:

--- Quote from: NE Bull on April 02, 2013, 04:54:54 PM ---I'm pretty sure Fischer is good to go seeing as how she just warned/ updated us all on her Facebook page earlier today. 
As for Johanns, he has let me/us down recently (see Monsanto Protection act) and needs to remember the people he represents.


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Johanns is retiring.  He really doesn't care what we think.

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