Posted on 07/11/2012 2:40:13 PM PDT by neverdem
Mr. President, thank you for this brief opportunity to address this conference. I am Wayne LaPierre and for 21 years now, I have served as Executive Vice President of the National Rifle Association of America.
The NRA is the largest and most active firearms rights organization in the world, with four million members who represent 100 million law-abiding Americans who own firearms.
On behalf of those 100 million American gun owners, I am here to announce NRA’s strong opposition to anti-freedom policies that disregard American citizens’ right to self-defense.
No foreign influence has jurisdiction over the freedoms our Founding Fathers guaranteed to us.
We will not stand idly by while international organizations, whether state-based or stateless, attempt to undermine the fundamental liberties that our men and women in uniform have fought so bravely to preserve – and on which our entire American system of government is based.
For six years, the NRA has closely monitored this effort for an Arms Trade Treaty.
We have watched with increasing concern and, one year ago, I delivered to the Preparatory Committee our objections to including civilian arms in the ATT. I said then … and I will repeat now … that the only way to address NRA’s objections is to simply and completely remove civilian firearms from the scope of the treaty.
That is the only solution. On that there will be no compromise. American gun owners will never surrender our Second Amendment freedom. Period.
Our Founding Fathers wrote the Second Amendment so Americans would never have to live in tyranny.
For any foreign entity to attempt to encroach on that great freedom is offensive to every American who has ever breathed our free air, or who has ever used a firearm to fend off an evil attacker – whether a criminal breaking into their home, or in defense of their family against a tyrant halfway around the world.
Our Second Amendment is freedom’s most valuable, most cherished, most irreplaceable idea. History proves it. When you ignore the right of good people to own firearms to protect their freedom, you become the enablers of future tyrants whose regimes will destroy millions and millions of defenseless lives.
Without apology, the NRA wants no part of any treaty that infringes on the precious right of lawful Americans to keep and bear arms.
Let there be no confusion. Any treaty that includes civilian firearms ownership in its scope will be met with the NRA’s greatest force of opposition.
Mr. President, there are those who believe that merely excluding civilian firearms from the ATT preamble will be sufficient.
Let me state – in the clearest possible terms – that it is not. A preamble to a treaty has no force of law. We know that, and a strong bipartisan majority of the United States Senate and House of Representatives know it as well.
Any Arms Trade Treaty must be adopted by two-thirds of the U.S. Senate, which has 100 members. Already, 58 Senators have objected to any treaty that includes civilian arms, and a majority of the U.S. House of Representatives also opposes such a treaty.
The NRA represents hundreds of millions of Americans who will never surrender our fundamental firearms freedom to international standards, agreements, or consensus.
America will always stand as a symbol of freedom and the overwhelming force of a free, armed citizenry to protect and preserve it.
On behalf of all NRA members and American gun owners, we are here to announce that we will not tolerate any attack – from any entity or organization whatsoever – on our Constitution or our fundamental, individual Right to Keep and Bear Arms.
Thank you.
The way things are going, goons with teal helmets will be seizing our weapons within 10-15 years.
After seeing all this happen and knowing how devious Harry Reid and the Democrat Party is, I would have to say that the odds of it being ratified are good. Too good for me but I don't like much of what is happening politically and socially in the U.S. today.
But on the bright side you can always tell yourself what most people I talked to about what was happening told me, "They can't do that!"
We’re missing the pieces...
Executive Order 13524 — Amending Executive Order 12425
EXECUTIVE ORDER
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AMENDING EXECUTIVE ORDER 12425 DESIGNATING INTERPOL
AS A PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION ENTITLED TO
ENJOY CERTAIN PRIVILEGES, EXEMPTIONS, AND IMMUNITIES
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 1 of the International Organizations Immunities Act (22 U.S.C. 288), and in order to extend the appropriate privileges, exemptions, and immunities to the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL), it is hereby ordered that Executive Order 12425 of June 16, 1983, as amended, is further amended by deleting from the first sentence the words “except those provided by Section 2(c), Section 3, Section 4, Section 5, and Section 6 of that Act” and the semicolon that immediately precedes them.
BARACK OBAMA
THE WHITE HOUSE,
December 16, 2009.
And read information here: http://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/on-may-10th-obama-signed-another-executive-order/14837/
...Obama has signed yet another executive order, this one is Identifying and Reducing Regulatory Burdens, that when coupled with his Executive Order Promoting International Regulatory Cooperation and Executive Order Establishing a White House Council on Strong Cities, Strong Communities, opens a direct path to bring United Nations regulations to the grass roots of our body politic.
This latest executive order will allow the soviet socialists in our local communities through their committees to adopt and enact United Nations regulations designed to establish absolute United Nations’ control over our every resource....
Thanks, philman. I just sent an email to Wayne LaPierre with the direct quote from the Constitution and a link to “Desert Treaty Ratified in Dead of Night”.
I asked him to please contact someone we can trust in the Senate (I suggested DeMint who is on the Foreign Relations Committee) to be sure we have someone always there to call for a quorum when/if this thing is set up to be snuck through. (Is there any “if” about it?)
I figured going through the NRA was safer than an email to a senator from a non-constituent that depends on a staffer to pass on. At least all staff at NRA should be motivated to preserve their jobs along with our guns.
Law of the Sea Treaty: Need 3 More Repubs to Vote Against
The Examiner reports that Senator Harry Reid may not bring up LOST for vote until after the November elections, in a lame-duck session, so as not to commit DemoRats to an unpopular vote FOR the treaty.
Keeping that treaty topical in the public eye has largely prevented it from moving forward as well. You can't sneak it through when it has a spotlight on it. And look at the BS manner of the Dems and what they'll probably end up doing. A lame-duck session! Stab America in the back by voting for it and then run away like a coward.
Stay vigilant, never stop learning, never give up and never give in.
The NRA has supported and helped author every gun control legislation in the past 100 years.
From their own 1968 American Rifleman article:
"Item: The NRA supported The National Firearms Act of 1934 which taxes and requires registration of such firearms as machine guns, sawed-off rifles and sawed-off shotguns.
Item: The NRA supported The Federal Firearms Act of 1938, which regulates interstate and foreign commerce in firearms and pistol or revolver ammunition, and prohibits the movement in interstate or foreign commerce of firearms and ammunition between certain persons and under certain conditions.
The NRA supported the original "Dodd Bill" to amend the Federal Firearms Act in regard to handguns when it was introduced as S.1975 in August, 1963. Among its provisions was the requirement that a purchaser submit a notarized statement to the shipper that he was over 18 and not legally disqualified from possessing a handgun.
NRA support of Federal gun legislation did not stop with the earlier Dodd bills. It currently backs several Senate and House bills which, through amendment, would put new teeth into the National and Federal Firearms Acts. The essential provisions which the NRA supports are contained in 2 Senate bills introduced by Senator Roman L. Hruska (Nebr.) and House bills introduced by Congressmen Cecil R. King (17th fist.-Calif.) and Robert L. F. Sikes (1st Dist.Fla.). These bills would:
1. Impose a mandatory penalty for the carrying or use of a firearm, transported in interstate or foreign commerce, during the commission of certain crimes.
2. Place "destructive devices" (bombs, mines, grenades, crew-served military ordnance) under Federal regulation.
3. Prohibit any licensed manufacturer or dealer from shipping any firearm to any person in any State in violation of the laws of that state.
4. Regulate the movement of handguns in interstate and foreign commerce by:
a. requiring a sworn statement, containing certain information, from the purchaser to the seller for the receipt of a handgun in interstate commerce;
b. providing for notification of local police of prospective sales;
c. requiring an additional 7-day waiting period by the seller after receipt of acknowledgement of notification to local police;
d. prescribing a minimum age of 21 for obtaining a license to sell firearms and increasing the license fees;
e. providing for written notification by manufacturer or dealer to carrier that a firearm is being shipped in interstate commerce;
f. increasing penalties for violation. "
Thank you for the ping.
I hope that all of our American gun-rights groups join Mr. LaPierre in fighting this dastardly UN attempt to disarm us.
And each time, you're knocked down by people who have more than your modicum of sense. I'm not particularly interested in arguing with someone who has been KO'd dozens of times and still comes back to get hit in the face at every opportunity.
Absolutely.
The man is a GD idiot.
He's either an idiot or he knows the threat's much bigger than we think.
So he goes to the U.N.?
It was LaPierre who went before this American hating organization.
That was extremely stupid.
This is like the sheep pleading his case before the wolves.
The fact is, the gangsta thug hoods who run all the third world nations and control the UN whose existance WE bankroll want this treaty to prevent guns from going into the hands of legitimate rebels who might topple their oppressive dictatorial regimes. Somehow, under Obama, we fall right in that group also.
They aren’t interested in Wayne LaPierre, the Second Amendment or Gun Rights - unless its their own.
What the NRA shold be doing is preparing suits in the Courts to nullify the execution and implementation of an International Treaty that abriges the rights of Americans to keep firearms - and working to elect Romeny and making it PERFECTLY CLEAR they expect PAYBACK if he gets elected.
No one has KO’d me, least you. I have, however, KO’d the NRA. They continuously support gun control laws and only come back saying they support the 2nd during membership drives. You keep posting your support for the NRA, and I’ll keep posting their history of gun control legislation, like their support for NICS, Project Exile, the 1968 GCA, the 1934 NFA, etc.
Thanks for posting my posting history. The more people see what the NRA has actually stood for the better.
Local police have always had the power to arm themselves with “military hardware”. The Feds have never had the power to forbid it, though I suppose the states could. Go back to the 20s and 30s, when police armed themselves with Thompsons and BARs because the gangs had them.
Local police have always had the power to arm themselves with “military hardware”. The Feds have never had the power to forbid it, though I suppose the states could. Go back to the 20s and 30s, when police armed themselves with Thompsons and BARs because the gangs had them.
Bingo!
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