President Obama is getting ready to sign the UN's ATT, on which his administration changed allegiance in April and joined the rest of the tyranny loving countries on the latest crusade to destroy the civil right of self defense worldwide, not to mention freedom of ownership of private property. This is a summary article from NRA and Washington times:
August 19th, 2013
The U.N. Comes After America's Guns - The White House readies to sign the Arms Trade Treaty.
The Washington Times | Bob Barr
The true scope of the anti-firearm crusade of the
United Nations, which began more than a dozen years ago, finally is
coming into clear focus, as the White House readies to sign the Arms
Trade Treaty adopted with U.S. support this past April by the U.N.
General Assembly. The reach of this long-term, carefully crafted agenda
is truly breathtaking, going far beyond the publicly articulated goals
of even the most radical of homegrown gun-control groups.
Since
the first major U.N. meeting in July 2001, officially launching the
so-called “Program of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the
Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects,” this
bureaucratic behemoth on the banks of the East River in New York City
has been attempting to stretch its tentacles into the domestic
regulation of firearms. If the administration of President Obama signs
the Arms Trade Treaty, the U.N. will have taken a major step toward its
ultimate goal — regardless of whether the treaty is ever submitted to
the Senate for ratification.
According to experts familiar with
this process, the mere act of signing the treaty — a responsibility that
would fall to Secretary of State John Kerry — would “obligate” the U.S.
government as a signatory not to act “contrary to” its terms. Those
“terms” are, to quote Ross Perot, the “devil in the detail” — found not
only within the four corners of the document itself, but in companion,
foundational documents on which it is based.
For example, a 2006
U.N. report (authored by an American academic, Barbara Frey) lays out
with frightening clarity where advocates of the approach reflected in
the Arms Trade Treaty are coming from.
According to this Eurocentric
worldview, there is no “right” to self-defense, and the national
government is obligated to restrict civilian ownership of firearms,
including determining which citizens properly “understand” firearms and
might, therefore, be permitted to possess them.
Another important
but little-known set of documents that reveal the true purposes of the
treaty were crafted by the U.N. Coordinating Action on Small Arms. These
include the International Small Arms Control Standard, which is
developing “modules” on gun control to serve as “model legislation” for
countries that sign on to the treaty. The most relevant of these is the
one titled, “National controls over the access of civilians to small
arms and light weapons.”
One need read no further than the
introduction to this missive to understand its goal. The operative focus
is strict regulation of civilian possession of firearms by the
“central” or national government. This is necessary because “some
civilians misuse small arms” by using them illegally or “improperly
stor[ing]” them. The document bases this notion of government control of
firearms and ammunition on “international law” — an inaccurate
interpretation of such body of laws, but one that fits conveniently the
U.N.’s agenda.
From this global perspective, the International
Small Arms Control Standard module then directs, in excruciating detail,
the manner in which national governments should restrict access to
firearms and ammunition:
- Restricting civilian possession of firearms only to those “at the lowest risk of misusing them.”
- Limiting
sales and other transfers of firearms only to commercial transactions
at licensed “sales premises” (in other words, no transfers at gun
shows).
- Only persons licensed and periodically re-licensed by the national government could possess firearms.
- All firearms must be registered with the national government.
- All persons wishing to possess a firearm must pass a rigorous exam administered by the national government.
- All firearms must be stored in locked containers separate from ammunition, and “bolted to a heavy or immovable object.”
- Only a predetermined number of firearms and rounds of ammunition may be possessed by a properly licensed civilian.
- Magazine capacity is limited to 10 rounds.
- Possession of a firearm may only occur after a seven-day waiting period.
- No civilian could own or possess a firearm for self-defense unless he first demonstrates a clear and convincing need.
- Individuals licensed to own firearms are subject to periodic and random inspections of their homes or businesses.
- In
order to be granted a license to possess a firearm, an individual must
secure recommendations from “responsible members of society,” attesting
to their “suitability to possess a small arm.”
The above list is
by no means exhaustive of the restrictions in the U.N. model
legislation, which is designed to limit the possession of firearms and
ammunition to the smallest possible number of civilians, and it provides
clear insight into where this process is going. If Congress fails to
take swift action to prohibit the administration from implementing any
part of the Arms Trade Treaty or taking any action pursuant to it, we
now know exactly where we are headed.
