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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: rktman

Bunch of pu**ies. Come here to America you blue helmet bastards and let’s see you enforce it.

or are they going to write 50 stern “letters” to disarm?


61 posted on 04/02/2013 11:11:07 AM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company after the election, & laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: from occupied ga

And local law enforcement will mostly do what is told, and do so thinking it is the right thing to do. Just like they did with fugitive slaves and the internment of Japanese Americans.


62 posted on 04/02/2013 11:11:16 AM PDT by Skepolitic
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To: Noumenon
>>better to die like a free man with a pile a spent cartridge cases at your feet<<

When I look at the haunting pictures of innocent civilians being led to their slaughter. The pics of men and woman kneeling down with an officer or soldier pointing a muzzle at the back of their head and how little time they had on this earth the moment the pic was snapped....makes me think of your comment above.

I often vow, I will never kneel down and let some jack-boot pop a hole in the back of my head. Go down fighting like a free man.

63 posted on 04/02/2013 11:14:28 AM PDT by servantboy777
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To: max americana

Only for the non-compliant!


64 posted on 04/02/2013 11:14:52 AM PDT by rktman (BACKGROUND CHECKS? YOU FIRST MR. PRESIDENT!(not that we'd get the truth!))
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To: Gaffer

So, the President’s men will duly designate the next bunch of gun nuts as terrorists, and BATF can just drone-strike them.

Problem solved.


65 posted on 04/02/2013 11:17:19 AM PDT by Skepolitic
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To: Drawn7979

Media hype. Nothing “overrides” our constitution, but ultimatly, it is up to us to enforce it. How many folks here have kin in the US military that are now serving stateside? I do. Time to call these patriots, and remind them that they may be needed here at home.
The UN can “pass” anything they want to, my response will be to “pass” gas....


66 posted on 04/02/2013 11:18:04 AM PDT by Quickgun (I got here kicking,screaming and covered in someone else's blood. I can go out that way if I have to)
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To: Gaffer
***I look forward to Blue Helmet target shooting with 30’06 black tips.****

I agree! Bring it on you red necked peckerwoods!


67 posted on 04/02/2013 11:20:28 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (The murals in OKC are destroyed.)
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To: Resolute Conservative
56 grain .22-250. Left hand bolt. Tack driver. It's not the size of the dog in the fight. It's the size of the fight in the dog.

/johnny

68 posted on 04/02/2013 11:21:09 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Skepolitic

You place far too much credit in his minions.


69 posted on 04/02/2013 11:21:50 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Gaffer

Me, too. With relish.


70 posted on 04/02/2013 11:22:08 AM PDT by laplata (The Answer To 1984 Is 1776)
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To: TheOldLady

Since when has any country abided by the UN’S “laws” they attempt to pour on the nations. Whatever they try to regulate simply gives nations a roadmap on how to get around it...nothing more.


71 posted on 04/02/2013 11:23:27 AM PDT by caww
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Don’t know how to take that remark...in my neck of the woods, “Red Neck” isn’t an epithet; it is a mark of having done work in the sun....


72 posted on 04/02/2013 11:23:50 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Truth2012

This will only increase our resolve.


73 posted on 04/02/2013 11:24:49 AM PDT by laplata (The Answer To 1984 Is 1776)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation
Yes, and there's no chance the Senate passes this treaty. The UN passes all kind of weird treaties that cover disabilities, drought, etc., and even have one for the use of the Moon, believe it or not. Most of these things never get ratified and this one won't either.
74 posted on 04/02/2013 11:24:59 AM PDT by aegiscg47
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To: Tzimisce
-What they said about Obamacare in March 2010....

Obamacare didn't need 2/3 of the Senate to pass. This does.

75 posted on 04/02/2013 11:25:40 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Gun control: Steady firm grip, target within sights, squeeze the trigger slowly...)
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To: aegiscg47

I know that it won’t get ratified. And Hitler did not round up the Jews in Germany, strip them of their citizenship and the protection of the State either.


76 posted on 04/02/2013 11:29:22 AM PDT by sport
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To: DanMiller

“Under Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution, Senate ratification of a treaty requires that “two thirds of the Senators present concur.”

The Senate had zero authority to over-ride the 2nd amendment. As in the Shall not be infringed part. Only lawless politicians and Courts could find otherwise.


77 posted on 04/02/2013 11:29:49 AM PDT by Revel
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To: laplata

I only wish what you posted was true, but unless things change drastically, I don’t see our resolve strenghting.


78 posted on 04/02/2013 11:31:03 AM PDT by sport
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To: Revel
Only lawless politicians and Courts could find otherwise.

Both of which are in abundant supply these days.

79 posted on 04/02/2013 11:31:52 AM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: Gaffer

***Don’t know how to take that remark****

Watch this and you will understand the joke.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065214/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

You would have preferred me to call them (the UN) .... “Lier! LIER! BLACK LIER!”


80 posted on 04/02/2013 11:32:47 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (The murals in OKC are destroyed.)
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