Posted on 09/02/2021 9:47:24 AM PDT by george76
The Biden administration this week signaled that it is eyeing a United Nations small arms treaty that critics claim will lead to an international gun registration plan — including for individual American gun owners.
Two years after former President Donald Trump withdrew from it, a top arms diplomat at the State Department told the global body that the current administration is swinging behind the Arms Trade Treaty.
“I have come from Washington, D.C., this week to take the floor on the agenda item Treaty Universalization to underscore the continuing commitment of the United States to responsible international trade in conventional arms,” William Malzahn said at the 7th Conference of States Parties to the Arms Trade Treaty.
The United States has long supported strong and effective national controls on the international transfer of conventional arms, and the Arms Trade Treaty is an important tool [for] promoting those controls internationally,” he said according to a transcript provided to Secrets by the lobbying arm of the National Rifle Association.
The NRA has warned that, among many moves, the treaty will require all arms that Americans buy from overseas makers to be tracked. To do that, a global gun registry would be created and maintained for 10 years. Every owner will be listed on that registry.
“This is the first step towards creating a global firearms registry,” said the Second Amendment advocacy group.
“President Biden wants to give foreign bureaucrats control over the rights of law-abiding Americans, and the NRA will fight it every step of the way,” it added today in a Twitter thread.
In his statement, Malzahn said that the administration is reviewing and working to strengthen the “Conventional Arms Transfer Policy” that guides the transfer policy of firearms.
“The new CAT Policy will better frame the intent and priorities of the Biden/Harris administration and formalize the approach of the administration as adopted on arms transfer decisions that have been in effect since President Biden entered the White House in January,” he said, according to the transcript.
“The revised CAT Policy should be finalized shortly and released as a public document. When it is, the United States will then use that policy framework to review specific arms transfer issues, including determining the proper relationship of the United States to the Arms Trade Treaty,” he added.
The Senate will NEVER approve such a treaty.
So, the US will comply only when a Dim is POTUS, maybe not even then as congress has multiple ways to prevent compliance.
I am not worried at all.
“I’m sure Biden also plans to follow his Constitutional obligation and send said treaty to the Senate for their vote to ratify.”
You so funny!
Don’t you know that it’s “Stroke of the pen, law of the land”.
Clinton proved that in ‘93 when the Senate refused to ratify the UN Bio-diversity (Agenda 21) treaty. He implemented it through a series of Ex. Orders starting with 12852.
None. There is no other reason.
I’m afraid that will be up to the American people.
Exactly.
And I wouldn’t put it past them.
They will use racial hatred to accomplish it, bringing in troops from foreign countries who have no love for the US or white people.
I see dead people. Lots and lots of dead people.
I had really hoped that Trump would have sent Paris Climate Treaty to the Senate with his recommendation that they vote against it. He should have explained to the American people in an Oval Office address that he was simply following the Constitutional mandate that all treaties get sent to the Senate for ratification, which his Marxist predecessor had failed in his duty to do.
After it was rejected for ratification it would have made it much more difficult for Xiden to just simply declare we would abide by the terms of the treaty.
If he does he violates the US Constitution.
Treaties don’t end run the constitution.
As things are going,one day we will not hold the Senate.
We need to do what we did to the british
It really sucks having an illegitimate fake pResident who is a mortal enemy combatant of the USA. Nothing good ever comes from a democrat Administration.
Nothing ever. At least not since JFK.
He can sign anything he wants its not going to get ratified.
Biden Kill Lists?
ADD Me please.
I remember the “good luck with that” back when they banned a lot of “ass alt rifles”. It just couldn’t be, wasn’t that a so called Republican GHW Bushitter? Or when when GW Bushitter signed the CFR...campaign finance reform, then said the USSC will overturn it. They didn’t, and we are where we are because of how screwy that law ended up being and instead of taking power away from big shots, it led to them having HUGE amounts of buying power in our elections. The reverse was true. Then the Patriot Act by GW Bushitter. It seems to me that we are fools for trusting either party. We need to trust ourselves and root out all of the old timers of both parties.
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