Wait, does this mean that I won’t be able to buy a firearm when my Nigerian bank transfer comes through?
Treaties must be ratified. It takes 67 votes to ratify a treaty in the Senate. 67 Senators, whether Dem or Pub, will not ratify to confiscate United States citizens’ guns under the United Nations.
I’m thinking the US Senate needs to ratify treaties to limit the ability of POTUS to bind us to international agreements. Has the Senate seen this treaty yet?
Urban legend, and irrelevant. Treaties must be ratified by the Senate to take effect. A small arms prohibition treaty would get maybe 3 votes in the current Senate.
I think this email has some credibility problems. I checked the NRAILA site and they are not too concerned, or at least it would appear.
If this is the case, where does the following come into play?
HERE ARE THE CLEAR IRREFUTABLE FACTS: The U.S. Supreme Court has made it very clear that
1) Treaties do not override the U.S. Constitution.
2) Treaties cannot amend the Constitution. And last,
3) A treaty can be nullified by a statute passed by the U.S. Congress (or by a sovereign State or States if Congress refuses to do so), when the State deems a treaty the performance of a treaty is self-destructive. The law of self-preservation overrules the law of obligation in others. When you’ve read this thoroughly, hopefully, you will never again sit quietly by when someone — anyone — claims that treaties supercede the Constitution. Help to dispell this myth.
“This [Supreme] 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.
Like Somalia? Cool!
Not to worry, the NRA is on the case.
“confiscation of all firearms.”
Ain’t gonna happen, no way, no how.
Shouldn’t you use the actual headline in the link — or else label this a vanity post?
“On Wednesday Obama Took the First Major Step in a Plan to Ban All Firearms in the United States”
They can have my weapons. One bullet at a time, and the delivery method....they might find objectionable.
You’re right to be concerned, but Obama can’t single-handed make a treaty binding on us. The Senate has to ratify all treaties — by a two-thirds vote, unless I’ve slipped a cog — and the Dems could only reach this threshhold with six to ten, nominally eight, RINOs voting with them. They should need more, hopefully lots more, after November. If not, see tagline.
WRONG! The treaty is not legal.
The U.S. Constitution is the law of THIS land.
There IS no legal way around the Second Amendment, only ILLEGAL ways.
I love how people who just discovered the Internet panic at their first chain email.
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Yawn...
No treaty can abuse the Constitution. If that were the case we wouldn’t have a constitution, we’d just have treaties.
Getting closer to a revoloution!
This has been in the “news” for a number of years. There is really rather LITTLE to it.