I'll be saying to my local militia leader: "Locked and loaded and ready for combat, SIR..."
Stock up on your ammo, now! I don't believe black helicopter crap like this, but there's absolutely no reason to discredit it. Every movie I can think of that falls in the future shows a "Unified Earth Initiative" type government.
Also, isn't there a UN mandate on the docket this year for a worldwide ban on small arms? What happened to the Constitution of the United States? Thank GOD for W!
Also, isn't there a UN mandate on the docket this year for a worldwide ban on small arms? What happened to the Constitution of the United States? Thank GOD for W!
UN pressed to adopt treaty on global gun tracing Arms control activists urged U.N. treaty writers on Monday to approve a system for tracking small arms sales around the world, saying it was easier to track lost airline luggage than a machine gun.
Amnesty International, Oxfam International and the International Action Network on Small Arms called for a legally binding global marking and tracing treaty covering small arms and ammunition at the start of a two-week U.N. conference weighing how to deal with the problem.
"A piece of lost luggage can be traced from San Francisco to Sierra Leone within hours, yet deadly weapons disappear without trace on a daily basis," said Jeremy Hobbs, the director of Oxfam International.
A report by the three groups found that while weapons and ammunition often carry serial numbers, there is no worldwide system to record the information and make it available worldwide.
Nor are arms brokers -- middlemen who arrange arms sales across borders, putting them beyond the reach of most national governments -- required to register and report on their dealings in most countries.
That renders serial numbers "useless as a tool to identify, locate and trace illegal arms shipments," the groups said.
A worldwide marking and tracing mechanism would help enforce arms embargoes and identify international brokers who violated national or international laws, ultimately saving lives, they said.