NRA warns of Obama-fueled ‘end-run around Congress’ on gun rights

Cheryl K. Chumley The Washington Times 11/14/2014

The National Rifle Association issued a stark warning that a U.N. Arms Trade treaty set to take effect on Christmas Eve could lead to a U.S. crackdown on Second Amendment rights — not via a Senate ratification, but rather an “end-run around Congress,” a spokesperson said.

“We are […]

Gun control by the U.N.

Editorial The Washington Times 3/20/2013

Bureaucrats from 150 nations are ramping up efforts to impose gun control through international pact. Here in the United States, the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty has become the vehicle to drive an agenda that is deeply controversial because once a treaty is ratified by the Senate, it becomes the […]

Gun ban back on Obama’s agenda

More flexible administration revives U.N. arms treaty

Editorial The Washington Times 11/8/2012

That didn’t take long. Less than a day after President Obama’s re-election, the administration breathed new life into the United Nations‘ previously comatose treaty regulating guns.

Last July, the U.N. General Assembly began formal discussion of the Arms Trade Treaty, which seeks to […]

Investigators expose small arms gun control in UN small arms treaty

Anthony Martin Conservative Examiner 7/25/2012

A team of investigative reporters for Ammoland on Tuesday exposed previously unpublished documents showing that the controversial U.N. Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), also known as the “small arms treaty,” includes gun control for private “small arms and light weapons” as U.S. gun owners feared.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has […]

Let’s set aside the ‘obviously insane’ conclusion for now [Fritzworth]

OpenBlogger Ace of Spades HQ 7/21/2012

One would think we have learned nothing from the 20th century.

Among the various news reports and statements by officials today, in the wake of the Aurora shootings, is a constant refrain that the shooter himself, James Holmes, is obviously insane, deranged, or otherwise non compos mentis — indeed, […]

When the UN wants to negotiate a global arms control deal, it turns to … Iran

FoxNews.com 7/10/2012

UNITED NATIONS – A little more than a week after accusing Iran of supplying arms for Syria’s bloody crackdown on democracy-minded rebels, the UN has given Tehran a key seat at negotiations for a global arms treaty.

The stunning appointment by member states attending the UN Conference of the Arms Trade Treaty in […]

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