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U.N. passes sweeping international arms regulation viewed by some as Second Amendment override
washington times ^ | 4/2/13 | David Sherfinski

Posted on 04/02/2013 9:47:36 AM PDT by ColdOne

The United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday signed off on a sweeping, first-of-its-kind treaty to regulate the international arms trade, brushing aside worries from U.S. gun rights advocates that the pact could lead to a national firearms registry and disrupt the American gun market.

The long-debated U.N. Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) requires countries to regulate and control the export of weaponry such as battle tanks, combat vehicles and aircraft and attack helicopters, as well as parts and ammunition for such weapons. It also provides that signatories will not violate arms embargoes, international treaties regarding illicit trafficking, or sell weaponry to a countries for genocide, crimes against humanity or other war crimes.

With the Obama administration supporting the final treaty draft, the General Assembly vote was 154 to 3, with 23 abstentions.

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To: Tzimisce

“-What they said about Obamacare in March 2010....”

BINGO!!!!

How right you are - sad, but true.


21 posted on 04/02/2013 10:20:03 AM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: Resolute Conservative

Yep 200 gr. Hornady FTX in 348 Winchester.

Thumper.


22 posted on 04/02/2013 10:20:30 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
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To: Gaffer

You and me both, bro. I’ve been saving mine for that ‘rainy day’. Looks like it’s going to be a hard rain indeed.


23 posted on 04/02/2013 10:22:00 AM PDT by Noumenon (What would Michael Collins do?)
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To: RetroSexual
As a child, I never imagined that I could end up as a political prisoner, Gulag-style, right here at home.

History has an important lesson to teach in that regard: better to die like a free man with a pile a spent cartridge cases at your feet than like an animal in one of those slaughterhouses.

24 posted on 04/02/2013 10:24:26 AM PDT by Noumenon (What would Michael Collins do?)
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To: ColdOne

We live with a government subject to our Constitution & our Bill of Rights, not nutty measures set by the U.N.

Write, email or call your US Senators and tell them to vote against any foreign treaty or proposed law that diminishes our Second Amendment or other rights.


25 posted on 04/02/2013 10:25:48 AM PDT by RicocheT (Eat the rich only if you're certain it's your last meal)
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To: ColdOne

Go ahead, pull that trigger, punk!

[UN has no say.] Fate = Kyoto Protocol


26 posted on 04/02/2013 10:28:19 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: rktman

LMAO! great commercial


27 posted on 04/02/2013 10:28:31 AM PDT by CygnusXI (Im back!)
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To: absolootezer0; Renegade; Gaffer

Oooh! We’re getting quite a little group going on here. I’ll have to bring my Mosey after all, and not just the Mare’s Leg, 12 Ga, and 1911s.


28 posted on 04/02/2013 10:29:10 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: Gaffer

They’ll soften up the opposition with drone fired hellfire missiles, first.


29 posted on 04/02/2013 10:29:13 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: Noumenon

30 posted on 04/02/2013 10:30:07 AM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: ColdOne

Well, it is pretty clear. The war is here. NOW- how many Americans are going to stay asleep?


31 posted on 04/02/2013 10:30:34 AM PDT by Truth2012
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To: Innovative

Obamacare is not a treaty, you can’t EO a treaty, can’t ram through a treaty without creating a lot of bodies


32 posted on 04/02/2013 10:31:26 AM PDT by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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To: Innovative

Veto power can only be exercised in the Security Council, not the General Assembly which is a just who has the most votes for what.


33 posted on 04/02/2013 10:33:18 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: DanMiller
...Senate ratification of a treaty requires that "two thirds of the Senators present concur."

Reid will hold the vote a 2:AM when there are only five democRats present.

34 posted on 04/02/2013 10:34:50 AM PDT by MileHi ( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
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To: ColdOne

United Nations General Assembly just gave the Mexican cartels a new line of work to go into.


35 posted on 04/02/2013 10:36:26 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Gaffer
I look forward to Blue Helmet target shooting with 30’06 black tips.

You can look forward to shooting local cops with black tips because if there is any enforcement and confiscation coming out of this they'll be the ones doing it.

36 posted on 04/02/2013 10:36:56 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: ColdOne

http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/03/us-senate-votes-to-not-join-un-arms-trade-treaty/comment-page-1/


37 posted on 04/02/2013 10:40:13 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Tzimisce

True...but a difference is that the senate majority leader is not fully on board this time. Gun ownership has gone up dramatically among women lately (dem constituency) and also is up about 10 percent among DEMOCRAT men.

Sure they’ll try but this will be harder than obamacare for them and they will never get the House on board.


38 posted on 04/02/2013 10:40:22 AM PDT by what's up
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To: Tzimisce

http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/03/us-senate-votes-to-not-join-un-arms-trade-treaty/comment-page-1/


39 posted on 04/02/2013 10:40:44 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: DanMiller

Most of the people who voted for and supported Obamacare were re-elected.


40 posted on 04/02/2013 10:43:35 AM PDT by Tzimisce (The American Revolution began when the British attempted to disarm the Colonists.)
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