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UN Arms Treaty Could Put U.S. Gun Owners in Foreign Sights, say Critics
Fox News ^ | 7-11-2012 | Steven Edwards

Posted on 07/11/2012 6:54:00 PM PDT by EagleUSA

UNITED NATIONS – A treaty being hammered out this month at the United Nations -- with Iran playing a key role -- could expose the records of America's gun owners to foreign governments -- and, critics warn, eventually put the Second Amendment on global trial.

International talks in New York are going on throughout July on the final wording of the so-called Arms Trade Treaty, which supporters such as Amnesty International USA say would rein in unregulated weapons that kill an estimated 1,500 people daily around the world. But critics, including the National Rifle Association’s Wayne LaPierre, warn the treaty would mark a major step toward the eventual erosion of the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment gun-ownership rights.

Americans “just don’t want the UN to be acting as a global nanny with a global permission slip stating whether they can own a gun or not,” LaPierre said. “It cheapens our rights as American citizens, and weakens our sovereignty,” he warned in an exclusive interview with FoxNews.com

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/07/11/un-arms-treaty-could-put-us-gun-owners-in-foreign-sights-say-critics/#ixzz20Mx1sFKV

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: amendment; attack; obama; second
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What Obama cannot do to American freedoms via executive fiat, he is turning over to the UN. We will not forget your role in this Hillary.....Marxists all.
1 posted on 07/11/2012 6:54:08 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: EagleUSA

2/3 of the senate will not vote for this treason. They would be hunted down like rabid dogs. They would not want to live in hiding for the rest of their short, treasonous lives.

No matter how much they would LIKE to vote for this treason, their own self-preservation instincts are too strong.


2 posted on 07/11/2012 6:57:26 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: EagleUSA

They wear those blue helmets right? They’ve never played Patriot and UN before I guess.


3 posted on 07/11/2012 6:58:56 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("Ambition Without Talent Is Sad - Talent Without Ambition Is Worse")
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To: Travis McGee

“...2/3 of the senate will not vote for this treason.”

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I know, but it just infuriates me when these obvious enemies of our country pull this crap.


4 posted on 07/11/2012 7:01:01 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: EagleUSA

COME AND TAKE IT!....motherfeckers


5 posted on 07/11/2012 7:02:09 PM PDT by wetgundog (" Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is no Vice")
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To: Travis McGee

It only takes 2/3 of The Senate present at the time it’s voted on. That’s my understanding.


6 posted on 07/11/2012 7:05:08 PM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: Travis McGee
2/3 of the senate will not vote for this treason. They would be hunted down like rabid dogs. They would not want to live in hiding for the rest of their short, treasonous lives.

By the end of the century, people will be hunting Democrats with dogs,” -- U.S. Senator Phil Gramm of Texas, in 1993, in Bill Clinton’s first year in office.

Senator Gramm was a little off on the timing is all.

7 posted on 07/11/2012 7:07:31 PM PDT by archy (I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous!)
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To: Puppage

Yes this (appears) set to be somewhat troublesome for at while if passed.

It must become a constant thing, if passed.

No delays or loopholes. Ever until it gets turned back down.

None. Zero.


8 posted on 07/11/2012 7:07:38 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (America doesn't need any new laws. America needs freedom!)
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To: wetgundog

Now now..be a good dawg (- ;


9 posted on 07/11/2012 7:08:03 PM PDT by damncat
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To: wetgundog

I paint blue helmets on my targets for practice.... you know, just to keep sharp!


10 posted on 07/11/2012 7:08:03 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Skittle pooping unicorns are more common than progressives with honor & integrity.)
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To: EagleUSA
and vise versa...

11 posted on 07/11/2012 7:10:17 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Puppage

If they called a midnight vote with 2/3 plus one of 50 ‘rats voting, they would be hunted down like dogs. There are not enough ‘rats with a death wish in the senate.


12 posted on 07/11/2012 7:14:26 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: All; EagleUSA; SkyDancer; wetgundog; Puppage; archy; damncat; RetiredTexasVet; Chode

What Good Can a Handgun Do Against An Army?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2312894/posts


13 posted on 07/11/2012 7:18:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (In honor of my late father, GunnerySgt/Commo Chief, USMC 1943-65)
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To: EagleUSA
Just what America needs at this point.
Someone arrogant enough and stupid enough to push us that one more little bit too far.


14 posted on 07/11/2012 7:22:52 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Ayn Rand: "In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win")
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To: SkyDancer
They wear those blue helmets right? They’ve never played Patriot and UN before I guess.

Exactly! This author is a little confused about just who is going to be in whose sights.

15 posted on 07/11/2012 7:23:31 PM PDT by Jess79
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To: EagleUSA

” could expose the records of America’s gun owners to foreign governments..”

What records?


16 posted on 07/11/2012 7:23:47 PM PDT by Henry Hnyellar
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To: EagleUSA

Who would actually obey the order to disarm? Certainly nobody I know. It would be the proverbial Last Straw for millions.


17 posted on 07/11/2012 7:23:47 PM PDT by Trod Upon (Obama: Making the Carter malaise look good. Misery Index in 3...2...1)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well I for one don’t just have a handgun. If ever, ever, some UN troops from the Congo should ever land in the US, they’d wished they were back in the savannah running from lions and tigers and such.


18 posted on 07/11/2012 7:24:01 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("Ambition Without Talent Is Sad - Talent Without Ambition Is Worse")
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To: Travis McGee

I would not be so certain about that.

Just saying.

If this gets voted in, we need a new procedure, until it gets voted out once again.

No screw ups.


19 posted on 07/11/2012 7:24:11 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (America doesn't need any new laws. America needs freedom!)
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To: Travis McGee

I will repost here what I said in the other thread:

Removal of the right to bear arms via treaty would represent to me, and many others, the Federal Government unilaterally abrogating their compact with the People to have the power that they do.

I do not say this lightly.


20 posted on 07/11/2012 7:24:28 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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