Wolfgang1952
Regular Member
U.S. REP TO U.N. SAYS OBAMA WANTS
SENATE TO RATIFY ARMS TREATY
BELLEVUE, WA - The Obama administration "is seeking advice and consent" for
Senate ratification of an international small arms treaty, and also supports
the inclusion of small arms in the UN Register of Conventional Arms, the Citizens
Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms learned today.
The disclosure is found in the text of a statement to the First Committee
of the 66th session of the UN General Assembly, delivered by Laura E. Kennedy,
the permanent United States representative to the Conference on Disarmament.
CCRKBA obtained a copy of the statement.
In her statement, Kennedy recalls that the United States in 1997, under the
Clinton administration, signed the Inter-American Convention Against the Illicit
Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Ammunition, Explosives and Other
Related Materials. However, the Senate never ratified the document, and there
was no interest in pushing the treaty during the Bush administration. American
firearms rights activists have steadfastly fought against inclusion of small
arms in any such treaty.
"More than half the members of the Senate have already advised Barack Obama
that they will not ratify any treaty that threatens the Second Amendment rights
of American citizens," noted CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, "so it's not clear
why he is - according to Kennedy's revealing statement - suddenly seeking Senate
ratification of this measure.
"If the Obama administration is this eager to push adoption of a treaty that's
been gathering dust for eleven years," he added, "one can only imagine how
fast this president will want to see action on the proposed global Arms Trade
Treaty.
"This suggests that Obama fears he may be a one-term president," Gottlieb
stated, "and he feels a compelling need to finally bring his anti-gun agenda
to the surface and push it through. We have known all along about his desire
to bind this country to an international gun control scheme, and now Kennedy's
statement confirms that."
With more than 650,000 members and supporters nationwide, the Citizens Committee
for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is one of the nation's premier gun rights
organizations. As a non-profit organization, the Citizens Committee is dedicated
to preserving firearms freedoms through active lobbying of elected officials
and facilitating grass-roots organization of gun rights activists in local
communities throughout the United States. The Citizens Committee can be reached
by phone at (425) 454-4911, on the Internet at www.ccrkba.org or by email to
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SENATE TO RATIFY ARMS TREATY
BELLEVUE, WA - The Obama administration "is seeking advice and consent" for
Senate ratification of an international small arms treaty, and also supports
the inclusion of small arms in the UN Register of Conventional Arms, the Citizens
Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms learned today.
The disclosure is found in the text of a statement to the First Committee
of the 66th session of the UN General Assembly, delivered by Laura E. Kennedy,
the permanent United States representative to the Conference on Disarmament.
CCRKBA obtained a copy of the statement.
In her statement, Kennedy recalls that the United States in 1997, under the
Clinton administration, signed the Inter-American Convention Against the Illicit
Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Ammunition, Explosives and Other
Related Materials. However, the Senate never ratified the document, and there
was no interest in pushing the treaty during the Bush administration. American
firearms rights activists have steadfastly fought against inclusion of small
arms in any such treaty.
"More than half the members of the Senate have already advised Barack Obama
that they will not ratify any treaty that threatens the Second Amendment rights
of American citizens," noted CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, "so it's not clear
why he is - according to Kennedy's revealing statement - suddenly seeking Senate
ratification of this measure.
"If the Obama administration is this eager to push adoption of a treaty that's
been gathering dust for eleven years," he added, "one can only imagine how
fast this president will want to see action on the proposed global Arms Trade
Treaty.
"This suggests that Obama fears he may be a one-term president," Gottlieb
stated, "and he feels a compelling need to finally bring his anti-gun agenda
to the surface and push it through. We have known all along about his desire
to bind this country to an international gun control scheme, and now Kennedy's
statement confirms that."
With more than 650,000 members and supporters nationwide, the Citizens Committee
for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is one of the nation's premier gun rights
organizations. As a non-profit organization, the Citizens Committee is dedicated
to preserving firearms freedoms through active lobbying of elected officials
and facilitating grass-roots organization of gun rights activists in local
communities throughout the United States. The Citizens Committee can be reached
by phone at (425) 454-4911, on the Internet at www.ccrkba.org or by email to
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