Forbes: "U.N. Agreement Should Have All Gun Owners Up In Arms"

Matt Drudge just reposted an old commentary from Forbe's on the UN's proposed "Small Arms Treaty."  The treaty that I thought was more of a boy that cried wolf story than anything else (in fact if you google you can find references to the Small Arms Treaty going a while) may be more of a threat that we previously thought.

Under the guise of a proposed global “Small Arms Treaty” premised to fight “terrorism”, “insurgency” and “international crime syndicates” you can be quite certain that an even more insidious threat is being targeted – our Constitutional right for law-abiding citizens to own and bear arms.

What, exactly, does the intended agreement entail?
While the terms have yet to be made public, if passed by the U.N. and ratified by our Senate, it will almost certainly force the U.S. to:

1. Enact tougher licensing requirements, creating additional bureaucratic red tape for legal firearms ownership.
2. Confiscate and destroy all “unauthorized” civilian firearms (exempting those owned by our government of course).
3. Ban the trade, sale and private ownership of all semi-automatic weapons (any that have magazines even though they still operate in the same one trigger pull – one single “bang” manner as revolvers, a simple fact the ant-gun media never seem to grasp).
4. Create an international gun registry, clearly setting the stage for full-scale gun confiscation.
5. In short, overriding our national sovereignty, and in the process, providing license for the federal government to assert preemptive powers over state regulatory powers guaranteed by the Tenth Amendment in addition to our Second Amendment rights. READ MORE>>>

Apparently, if passed by the UN, it will go to the Senate to be ratified.  Since the Senate has a Democratic Anti-Gun majority, we can be assured that this would pass.  The anti-gunners can't pass gun control laws now because of the pro-gun majority in the House, courts have ruled that individuals have a right to own and carry firearms, so now, they're only hope to restrict our rights is through backdoor treaty's like this one. (I'd wager that even if the UN passes this treaty many Senators wouldn't vote for it because it would amount to political suicide.)

Worse yet, George Soros has thrown his support behind the proposed UN treaty.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has announced that the Obama administration is working with the UN to lean on Congress to consent to the ATT.

Clinton has pushed the treaty as an “opportunity to promote the same high standards for the entire international community that the United States and other responsible arms exporters already have in place to ensure that weaponry is transferred for legitimate purposes.” READ MORE>>>>

 This stuff just pisses me off.

First of all, who are we to tell other nations which policies; laws; and "standards" they should enact in their own country.  We would be rioting in the street if, lets say, Saudi Arabia told us that we should have our women adopt Muslim dress standards or that we should ban alcohol because they thought it best for us.  In fact, this is exactly what this whole controversy is about.  Yes, it's about gun ownership and freedom, but its more importantly about our nation's sovereignty.  After all, why couldn't the UN pass a treaty that gets adopted by 51 airhead (and completely anti-freedom) Senators that says that the public practice of evangelizing or proselytizing should be illegal or even just regulated.


You have to love the double standard we hold regarding this notion. 

Few people understand and appreciate the truly American notion of non-interventionism.

Buckeye Firearms: Obama reveals anti-gun U.N. intent: Sends ex-Seattle mayor as Rep

I'm not one to read a whole lot into stuff like this, but considering that the ex-Seattle mayor, Greg Nickels, is a founding member of Mayor Bloomberg's anti-Gun group Mayors Against Illegal Guns I think it's noteworthy.

"Putting an extremist gun banner in any position to represent this country at the United Nations amounts to renting a billboard for advertising against the Second Amendment," said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. "While he was Seattle's mayor, Greg Nickels supported every anti-gun scheme put forth by Washington CeaseFire, the Northwest's most active gun prohibition lobby.
"Nickels is a gun ban proponent," he continued, "so his appointment as an alternate to the UN is a clear signal of Barack Obama's intention to rubber stamp the UN's global gun ban agenda. We had to sue Nickels while he was still Seattle's mayor to overturn his illegal city parks gun ban. Now he gets to push his anti-gun philosophy on a world scale. It hardly seems a coincidence that Nickels has been appointed by the Obama administration at a time when the UN is considering treaties and initiatives that pose a serious threat to the Second Amendment."
Nickels was turned out of office in 2009, which was something of a feat in a liberal enclave like Seattle, Gottlieb recalled. His defeat in the primary demonstrated the degree of alienation voters felt from a politician who once epitomized the Seattle liberal establishment.
"By naming Greg Nickels as an alternate representative at the UN," Gottlieb stated, "President Obama has essentially told America's 85 million gun owners that their firearm civil rights are in jeopardy. Nickels cannot be counted on to defend the Second Amendment because he would like to see it erased from the Constitution." READ MORE>>>

Mayor Nickels wrote in a letter opposing HR 5005:

It is not reasonable or good public policy to prohibit the federal National Trace Center of the Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Bureau from disclosing crime gun tracing information to law enforcement and prosecutors at any level of government. READ THE WHOLE LETTER (PDF)>>>

HR 5005 would've added much need BATFE reforms regarding firearms including specifying that firearms trace information shall not be "made available for use in any civil action or proceeding other than--an action or proceeding commenced by the Attorney General to enforce this chapter; or a review of such an action or proceeding."'

Read some more about Mayor Nickels' anti-gun stance:

Executive Order banning firearms on all City property and at all City EVENTS (original Seattle Times Link)
Signed onto this MAIG appeal (PDF)
Wants to prohibit anyone on a watchlist from owning a firearms, even though they haven't necessarily been convicted of any crimes, and repeal the Tihart amendment.
Against National Concealed Carry Reciprocity