Firearms Owners Against Crime
Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
A Global Weapons Computer?
A legally binding, global Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) is being prepared in the back rooms of the UN. One goal of the Treaty's proponents is to create national weapon databases, leading to regional databases, and then to an eventual global database.
Countries will be charged with the duty to keep track, not only of all transfers, but also of the locations of all arms and ammunition, from manufacture to destruction. A UN discussion paper states "the advent of modern information technology... promises to be a boon to the establishment of an effective tracing system in many States." But it will take a "global harmonized system of electronic registers" before the firearm-prohibitionists are satisfied.