Posted on 03/18/2013 5:23:27 PM PDT by EXCH54FE
Washington DC - -(Ammoland.com)- Contrary to the American Bar Association’s (ABA) contention that the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) “is consistent with the Second Amendment” and“would not require new domestic regulations” to hamper the exercise of the rights therein, the reality is that if ratified, the ATT could make guns as scarce as ammo and the exercise of the Second Amendment difficult indeed.
And here’s how this would happen–the ATT contains ambiguities regarding the application of new firearm regulations and import restrictions. And this means the moment the ATT goes into effect –should it be ratified– the types of guns allowed to enter America would largely depend on each U.S. Presidential administration’s opinion of what is or isn’t appropriate.
In this way, the ATT actually hands the executive branch the power to work with other governments around world to shut down portions of the U.S. import firearms market as they see fit. This will be possible by seizing on ambiguous terms and phrases within the ATT–from claiming certain classes of gun are “inappropriate” to claiming others endanger “women and children“–then barring whole groups of firearms from import.
(Excerpt) Read more at ammoland.com ...
Americans like the Second Amendment because phrases like “the right to keep and bear arms” and “shall not be infringed” are not ambiguous. Rather, the amendment clearly bolsters what Americans already know in their consciences–that we have a natural, God-given right to keep and bear arms. It’s a right which the Founding Fathers did their utmost to protect
There are currently some 400 million firearms in civilian hands within the United States. Please explain to me how any force, short of massive extraterrestrial alien intervention, could confiscate even 10% of that number? Buehler? Buehler?
Since you’re new here, this is a link you might not have seen before:
What Good Can a Handgun Do Against An Army?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2312894/posts
new york alone has almost twice as many gun owners as all our branches combined
Yes I understand and 100% agree with the listed points. My point of the two posted articles is that our availability of “NEW” arms will be restricted if king O gets the treaty through congress.
We all need to be kept aware of the action congress and others are doing and attempting to accomplish with regard to restricting our GOD given 2nd Amendment rights.
Your thoughts?
“We have to pass it to know what’s in it.”
“best equipped light infantry force in the history of mankind”
That may be true in terms of guns alone, but without communications and coordination, what good does it do? You can’t get three gun owners to agree about a few basic things.
They own CB radios, walkie-talkies, night vision devices, SUVs....The WWII Wermacht, sans their tanks and artillery, would be a K-12 military school in comparison.
If they restrict the imports, that just means more sales for the domestic OEMs.
Yup! Just like booze was 'scarce' during Prohibition.
Which is exactly what is going on right now.
Shame on all of us for that travesty.
3D gunsmith gets licence to print and deal in arms (Texas)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2998249/posts
That was my thought. Prohibition = black market. Black market = lots of whatever it is you want.
1.6 billion hollow point rounds, 2700 mraps, thousands of drones for surveilance, 100,000s of govt road cameras, a million cops, fema, dhs, tsa, un troops, national guard, pissed off libs knowing you’re not one.
Those MRAPs won’t be able to travel over many rural/suburban bridges (too heavy & wide) and will be a deathtrap in many urban areas. If the United Nations somehow were able to bring in every military and paramilitary person in every country except ours (a logistical impossibility) they’d still be sorely outnumbered and outgunned by just 20% of the American citizenry. And don’t even get me started on drones. No war has ever been won from the air and I daresay none ever will be.
You’d think the black market was already here with the prices of guns and ammo.
“...the American Bar Association’s (ABA) contention...”
The first thing we do...
Some good black market supply lines might actually bring prices down! Some ammo beats the heck out of none. lol
The ABA is a leftist political organization that has a small minority of America’s lawyers as its membership.
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