[Resolute Conservative]

I have plenty I just need to be able to restock ammo as used...

[unixfox]

U.N. arms treaty a direct threat to American gun ownership

COME AND TAKE IT!

[TangoLimaSierra]

It would also show his clear contempt for American supremacy and sovereignty.

What's new?

[familyop]

It would have to be ratified by 2/3 of the Senate. If so (unlikely), it still wouldn't be enforced here.

"This Court has regularly and uniformly recognized the supremacy of the Constitution over a treaty" (Reid v. Covert, October 1956, 354 U.S. 1, at pg 17).

Constitutional Limitations on the Treaty Power
Justia.com
http://law.justia.com/constitution/us/article-2/19-constitutional-limitations-on-treaty-power.html

Excerpt:
“As statutes may be held void because they contravene the Constitution, it should follow that treaties may be held void, the Constitution being superior to both. And indeed the Court has numerous times so stated.”

TREATIES DO NOT SUPERCEDE THE CONSTITUTION
http://www.famguardian.org/Subjects/LawAndGovt/Articles/Treaties.htm

[familyop]

America is pretty much stocked up to the gills anyway.

[Myrddin]

One way to solve the import problem is the manufacture them here. The only export at that point is profit on the sales back to the home country. The firearm doesn't cross an international boundary between manufacture and sale. The foreign producers keep their market and still generate sales.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Another question to ask Republican candidates for president: will you abrogate this treaty?