Showing posts with label Small Arms Treaty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Small Arms Treaty. Show all posts

Thursday, July 5, 2012

Congressmen urge the UN to trample the US Constitution

Chris Cox, Executive Director of NRA-ILA wrote,
    Today [Monday, July 2] begins the most important 26-day period for our Second Amendment freedoms in recent history. ✧ That’s because today, representatives from many of the world’s socialist, tyrannical and dictatorial regimes will gather at United Nations headquarters in New York for a month-long meeting, in which they’ll put the finishing touches on an international Arms Trade Treaty that could seriously restrict your freedom to own, purchase and carry a firearm. Read more at DC Caller...
Also read:
NRA-ILA - International Firearm Abolitionists Prepare to Draft Arms Trade Treaty
NAGR - Hillary commits to UN Small Arms Treaty Read More......

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Gun Control, the UN & 'Selling U.S. Out….Again'

The Second Amendment is precious to most Americans. The right to bear arms is, however, repulsive to liberals and they have tried all manner of maneuvers to take Americans’ guns from them. ✧ The latest tactic is to ratify a United Nations Treaty to regulate arms trade. The concept of the treaty was introduced in 2006 and was vetoed twice by the Bush Administration. The basis for the veto is the sovereignty of the United States Constitution and the unwillingness to subjugate our Constitution to any international body. [...] Now, Rep. Denny Rehberg (R-MO) and Rep. Ben Quayle (R-AZ) have introduced House Bill 5846, “The Second Amendment Sovereignty Act,” to counter the proposed treaty. The Bill would block funding for or the implementation of the treaty.
    Quayle said the “U.N. treaty is a direct threat to American sovereignty and the constitutional rights of all Americans. Congress needs to put its foot down, and make clear that it, not the United Nations, is the only body with the constitutional right to impose laws in the United States.”
Read more at GOPUSA (Commentary from The Proud Americans.org)... Read More......