There are stories still floating around the blogosphere that Hillary Clinton has signed the U.N. gun ban treaty. Until now, I had been unable to find a credible source to debunk the hoax and of course it would come from the NRA and a deeper reading of the Constitution.
An example of this nonsense is shown below.Hillary Commits to UN Gun Ban, says Dudley Brown
According to a recently received letter from the NRA, sent on May 25, 2010, contrary to a widely circulated e-mail, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has not signed any UN small arms treaty. She could not have done so, in fact, because no such treaty has yet been negotiated.
As we noted in the item below from last November, the UN Arms Trade Treaty will be drafted between now and 2012, and even if signed would not take effect in the U.S. until the Senate ratified it. MUST SEE VIDEO BELOW
Please rest assured that, as we said in November, NRA will be actively involved in this process and will oppose any treaty that would attempt to impose limits on our Second Amendment rights. In the meantime, we urge gun owners to follow this issue in NRA’s magazines and NRA-ILA’s (Institute for Legislative Action) Grassroots Alerts. We also urge gun owners not to circulate misinformation on this issue.
Over the last few weeks, we have received many inquiries regarding the UN and the impact of international treaties on our Second Amendment freedom.
The NRA has been engaged at the United Nations and elsewhere internationally in response to anti-small arms initiatives for over 14 years.
In most cases, agendas for the elimination of private ownership of firearms are disguised as calls for international arms control to stem the flow of illicit military weapons. These instruments are generally promoted by a small group of nations and a large number of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) working in conjunction with departmental bureaucracies in multi-national institutions such as the UN and European Union.
A MUST SEE VIDEOThe new U.S. administration, to no one’s surprise, has changed direction in the UN with respect to international small arms control initiatives that were resisted by the previous administration.
The current issue under discussion, the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), is in the early stages of the negotiation process. There is no actual draft text at this time. Work on the ATT is scheduled to continue by a consensus process between now and 2012. It should be noted that any treaty must be approved by two thirds of the U.S. Senate for ratification.Random thoughts while observing the passing charade, I’m J.C.
Jim Campbell runs Charging Elephants.
