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Wonder if passing this treaty was the unspoken goal of F&F. This was a Bill Clinton initiative

TREATY ENDANGERS SECOND AMENDMENT AND U.S. SOVEREIGNTY(April 2009)

On April 16, 2009, President Obama emerged from a meeting with Mexico’s President Calderón to announce his support for the “Inter-American Convention against the Illicit Manufacturing and Trafficking in Firearms” treaty (CIFTA): an international gun control treaty signed by President Bill Clinton in 1997 but never ratified by the U.S. Senate.

Unlike Clinton, Obama has no plans to let the treaty languish without ratification. Thus he promised to push the treaty through the Senate quickly as a means of curtailing the border violence and arms trafficking in Mexico’s current drug wars. Yet the text of CIFTA indicates that the treaty would do very little to curtail violence in Mexico, unless creating a national gun registry in the United States is something that will cut crime south of the border

additional article,

Obama Pushing Treaty To Ban Reloading

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I wouldn’t doubt that for a minute. Maybe not the whole reason but a good part of it.