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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...

Tearing the registry down when it is clearly working would be a terrible waste, argues Wendy Cukier Sep. 17, 2006. 01:00 AM WENDY CUKIER Although the evidence shows clearly that Canada, and particularly Quebec, is much safer since 1989, the year of the Montreal massacre, the Dawson College shootings remind us how vulnerable we are and how much more can be done. All the Dawson facts are not yet known; but we do know we need to maintain and strengthen our gun laws. While no law can prevent all tragedies, licensing gun owners and registering guns reduces the risks that...

Is a National Firearms Registry Unconstitutional?Joe Brower10/22/2002 Gun folks; My apoligies for the vanity post. I am currently engaged in a debate with one of the senior editors of the local "news"paper, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the NY Times. I have been doing well overall. Today, however, I have been asked one question point-blank that I think is indeed a good one, and one that we all should have an answer to in light of the ever-louder screams from the gun-grabbers for a national firearms registry, er, I mean, "ballistic fingerprinting". Basically, the question boils down to "Is a national...