Yeah. They're not, like, trying to get your money or anything. It's, um, about our FREEDOM! They don't know what school shooting it is that they express their condolences about, but don't you dare trust that U.N. and their commie buddies!
The aim of a potential U.N. arms treaty is to combat the illicit international trade of small arms by "tightening regulation of, and setting international standards for, the import, export and transfer of conventional weapons" in order to "close gaps in existing regional and national arms export control systems that allow weapons to pass onto the illicit market." Even if such a treaty came to pass, U.S. rights and laws regarding the sale and ownership of small arms would still apply within the United States.
This sounds a bit like it could influence US firearms laws the same way that the Schengen Treaty influenced the Swiss girearms laws. One change, that Gun trade among individuals will require a valid weapon acquisition permit is, from a Swiss point of view, a radical restriction that is assumed will undercut private gun trade dramatically.
There is no "legal way around the 2nd Amendment" other than a further amendment to the Constitution that repeals or alters it, or a Supreme Court decision that radically reinterprets how the 2nd Amendment is to be applied.
I thought that already happened with Heller-McDonald.
Yeah. They're not, like, trying to get your money or anything. It's, um, about our FREEDOM! They don't know what school shooting it is that they express their condolences about, but don't you dare trust that U.N. and their commie buddies!
ReplyDeleteSickening.
Wll, Article VI.ii does say treaties are part of US laws, but...
ReplyDeleteI have to admit there is a lot of disinformation in the US about this treaty.
Snopes gave a link to a reuter's article U.S. reverses stance on treaty to regulate arms trade.
The aim of a potential U.N. arms treaty is to combat the illicit international trade of small arms by "tightening regulation of, and setting international standards for, the import, export and transfer of conventional weapons" in order to "close gaps in existing regional and national arms export control systems that allow weapons to pass onto the illicit market." Even if such a treaty came to pass, U.S. rights and laws regarding the sale and ownership of small arms would still apply within the United States.
This sounds a bit like it could influence US firearms laws the same way that the Schengen Treaty influenced the Swiss girearms laws. One change, that Gun trade among individuals will require a valid weapon acquisition permit is, from a Swiss point of view, a radical restriction that is assumed will undercut private gun trade dramatically.
I do like how the Snopes piece on this ended:
There is no "legal way around the 2nd Amendment" other than a further amendment to the Constitution that repeals or alters it, or a Supreme Court decision that radically reinterprets how the 2nd Amendment is to be applied.
I thought that already happened with Heller-McDonald.