BREAKING NEWS: UN Arms Trade Treaty – Full Proposed Document

International Association for the Protection of Civilian Arms Rights ^

[ModelBreaker]

Here's what folks are missing: " 2. Each State Party Shall establish and Maintain a national control system to regulate the export of munitions to the extent necessary to ensure that national controls on the export of the conventional arms covered by Paragraph a1 (a)-(h) are not circumvented by the export of munitions for those conventional arms. "- 3. Each State Party shall establish and maintain a national control system to regulate the export of parts and components to the extent necessary to ensure that national controls on the export of the conventional arms covered by Paragraph A1 are not circumvented by the export of parts and components of those items." Note that the state parties are required to have a national control system that regulate the export of guns and that assures that the EXPORT CONTROLS ARE NOT CIRCUMVENTED. It's a pretty small step from there for a federal judge to rule or for the ATF to pass administrative regulations that require registration of all firearm and ammo purchases in the US. Registration would be necessarily required by this restriction. Otherwise, the unregistered stuff could be exported and that would circumvent the export controls. How can a state know whether guns are being exported unless they know who has all the guns. This treaty is a very sticky wicket and will eventually lead to very bad things.

[ModelBreaker]

“You asked a poster where the gun registry was in the doc, I asked you where #1 was.”

The registry is required in the language I quote in post 181. It requires a national control system that prevents people from “circumventing” the controls on export of firearms. There is no way governments can prevent circumvention unless they know where every gun in the country is and who owns it.

This treaty is bad juju.

[ModelBreaker]

And here’s another one:

“State Parties shall put in place adequate measures that will allow them, where necessary, to monitor and control imports of items covered by the scope of the Treaty. State Parties shall also adopt appropriate measures to prevent the diversion of imported items to unauthorized end users or to the illicit market.”

Of course, this one only covers arm imported from, say, Europe instead of all arms, like the language I quoted in post 181.