Firearms Owners Against Crime
Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
The United Nations seemingly has it out for Americans' Second Amendment-guaranteed rights as it continues to promote its "Small Arms Treaty ." The pact has already riled many gun owners as well as lawmakers such as Kentucky's Republican Senator Rand Paul . The most recent attack against the treaty was launched by Larry Bell of Forbes magazine, who published an editorial about it yesterday.
According to Bell, the treaty, if ratified by the U.S. Senate, would force the United States to do the following:
• Enact tougher licensing requirements, creating additional bureaucratic red tape for legal firearms ownership.
• Confiscate and destroy all "unauthorized" civilian firearms (exempting those owned by our government, of course).
• Ban the trade, sale and private ownership of all semi-automatic weapons (any that have magazines even though they still operate in the same one trigger pull - one single "bang" manner as revolvers, a simple fact the ant-gun media never seem to grasp).
• Create an international gun registry, clearly setting the stage for full-scale gun confiscation.
In short, Bell said, the treaty would override our national sovereignty, in the process giving license to the federal government to assert preemptive powers over state regulatory powers guaranteed by the Tenth Amendment in addition to our Second Amendment rights.