Sen. Moran Introduces Bill to Protect Rights of American Gun Owners- JUST SAYS NO TO THE UN

Kansas Senator Jerry Moran says that any United Nations Treaty reaching the Senate for ratification is Dead on Arrival if it infringes on US citizens 2nd Amendment rights or other Constitutional freedoms. Here's his statement.

May 17 2012

Sen. Moran Introduces Bill to Protect Rights of American Gun Owners

U.N. Arms Trade Treaty would restrict lawful private ownership of firearms in America

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) spoke to his colleagues in the Senate today about legislation he introduced, S. 2205, the Second Amendment Sovereignty Act, to protect the rights of American gun owners from the effects of a U.N. Arms Trade Treaty.

In October of 2009, at the U.N. General Assembly, the Obama Administration voted for the United States to participate in negotiating an Arms Trade Treaty – a reversal of the previous administration’s position. This treaty is supposedly intended to establish “common international standards for the import, export and transfer of conventional arms,” including tanks, helicopters and missiles. However, by threatening to include civilian firearms within its scope, the Arms Trade Treaty would restrict the lawful private ownership of firearms in our country.

In July, the U.N. Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty will take place in New York, during which time a treaty will be finalized for adoption.

Excerpts from Sen. Moran’s remarks can be found below, along with links to audio and video downloads.

“More than two centuries ago, our founding fathers wisely amended the United States Constitution to guarantee a Bill of Rights for its citizens. Since then, our democracy has stood strong as Americans have enjoyed liberties unparalleled in the world – including the fundamental right to keep and bear arms.”

“Today, our freedoms and our country’s sovereignty are in danger of being undermined by the United Nations. To ensure our liberties remain for our generation and future generations, I am offering legislation to protect the rights of American gun owners from the effects of a U.N. arms treaty.”

“Given where the process stands today, I am gravely concerned this treaty will infringe upon the Second Amendment rights of American gun owners. I am also concerned it will be used by other countries who do not share our freedoms, to wrongly place the burden of controlling international crime and terrorism on law-abiding American citizens.”

“Mr. President, I urge my colleagues in the Senate to adopt this commonsense legislation. On July 22 of last year, fifty-seven U.S. Senators joined me in reminding the Obama Administration that our firearm freedoms are not negotiable. We notified President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton of our intent to oppose ratification of a treaty that in any way restricts Americans’ Second Amendment rights. Our opposition is strong enough to block the treaty from passage, as treaties submitted to the U.S. Senate require two-thirds approval to be ratified.”

“As the treaty process continues, the Second Amendment Sovereignty Act seeks to further reinforce to the Administration that our country’s sovereignty and firearm freedoms must not be infringed upon by an international organization made up of many countries with little respect for gun rights. America leads the world in export standards to ensure arms are transferred for legitimate purposes and my bill will make certain that law-abiding Americans are not wrongfully punished.”

“In the days ahead, I will continue to work with my colleagues to ensure an Arms Trade Treaty that undermines the Constitutional rights of American gun owners is dead on arrival in the Senate.”

See Senator Moran standing up against the United Nations in the U.S. Senate as he spoke to his colleagues in the Senate on May 17, 2012, about legislation he introduced, S. 2205, the Second Amendment Sovereignty Act, to protect the rights of American gun owners from the effects of a U.N. Arms Trade Treaty:

UN Still After Your Guns - In Major Preparation Underway For Their "Arms Trade Treaty" Implementation

 JUST SAY NO TO THE UNITED NATIONS

The UN is ramping up their gun control efforts. They concluded a meeting in preparation of their plans for an Arms Trade Agreement, and at that meeting, the idea was put forth that transfers of arms and ammunition to "non-state actors" should be specifically banned by the Treaty. The UN says that, "An eclectic set of national and regional control measures on arms transfers exists, but the absence of such an international framework has unnecessarily obscured transparency and trust." Their aim is to complete the Treaty by the end of this year. 

The UN claims that this treaty will not infringe on your Second Amendment Rights. But, organizations that are the "Brand Names," the names you recognize in American gun rights control efforts, are all full members of IANSA, an international gun control organization pushing this Treaty. IANSA is committed to taking action on gun control locally and worldwide. This international organization is actively supporting and spearheading the UN Treaty.  


Its easy to see how an “International” efforts to control arms transfers could be applied to United States Arms Transfers. 
A major part of the UN thrust is to use arms transfers controls to “control crime.” The UN pointed out in their meeting that many children who lose fathers to gun violence suddenly have mothers who become their sole providers. This sounds a lot like the streets of Chicago and Trenton, New Jersey too, doesn’t it? That's an emotional appeal that hasn't worked here...yet. They are also trying to make this Treaty a Center for Disease Control type "Health Issue" as is being attempted already here.

Here's what the United Nations had to say on their website about that meeting. 

"The heads of several United Nations bodies with humanitarian, human rights and development mandates today called for a comprehensive arms trade treaty that will make people across the world safer by reducing the human cost of inadequate controls on weapons transfers. Speaking ahead of the final preparatory meeting of the UN Diplomatic Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty, which will be held in July, the officials took note of efforts at national and regional levels to regulate the trade in conventional weapons, but pointed out that “the current patchwork of controls is simply not adequate.”

“The human cost of such inadequate controls, and the corresponding widespread availability and misuse of weapons, is unacceptably high,” they said in a joint press statement.

The envisaged Arms Trade Treaty should meet the following criteria, according to the group of senior UN officials:

  It must require States to assess the risk that serious violations of international humanitarian law and human rights law may be committed with the weapons being transferred.

  Secondly, it must include within its scope all conventional weapons, including small arms.

  The treaty must also include ammunition within its scope.

It must ensure that there are no loopholes by covering all types of transfers, including activities such as transit, trans-shipment, as wells as loans and leases. They pointed out that at end of 2010, an estimated 27.5 million people were internally displaced as a result of conflict, while millions more have sought refuge abroad. In many cases the armed violence that drove them from their homes was fuelled by the widespread availability and misuse of weapons.

Between 2000 and 2010, more than 780 humanitarian workers were killed in armed attacks and a further 689 were injured, they added.

The value of the global authorized trade in small arms and light weapons and their ammunition is estimated at over $7 billion per year, according to the officials.
The statement was issued on behalf of Valerie Amos, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs; Helen Clark, the Administrator of the UN Development Programme (UNDP); António Guterres, UN High Commissioner for Refugees; Anthony Lake, Executive Director of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF); and Navi Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights."

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The UN To Use Appropriate and Gradual Force In Gun Confiscation

United Nations Still After Your Guns

The UN General Assembly has been in session, and if typical of the UN, some nasty things are probably in store for American gun owners as a result.

The Citizen's Committee For The Right To Keep and Bear Arms (CCKRBA), in a recent mailing, said that The UN is still actively pursuing the guns you own, and the ones you want to buy. Don't count out associated non-governmental organizations (NGOs) such as The International Network On Small Arms (IANSA.) IANSA's Rebecca Peters was largely responsible for the disarming of Australians and the associated increase in violent crimes there as a result of criminals retaining and using their firearms in assaultive crimes while the now defenseless law abiding general public turned theirs in for destruction.

Former US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton has said that one of the the greatest dangers to American's gun rights are non-governmental organizations, such as IANSA. Just consider Rebecca Peters and IANSA's Australian success that they want to use as a model for the United States. There is still a UN anti gun treaty pending here.

CCRKBA reported in their letter that "The Report to the Secretary-General on the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice contains provisions which directly target the rights of law abiding American gun owners. Among the proposals included in the section of the UN report entitled Measures to Regulate Firearms are:

A requirement for hunters to store their firearms in so-called sporting clubs;

Allowing only smooth bore firearms or shotguns for personal protection;

Allowing firearm collectors to possess only those firearms that have been altered so they can no longer be fired;

Requiring firearm owners to establish a need for possessing their guns;

Requiring hunters to obtain insurance before hunting;

Generally to discourage the private ownership of firearms."

Its interesting to note that "weapons" the UN defines as "Small Arms," lumps rifles, carbines, revolvers, and automatic loading pistols into the same classification as exploding bombs, incendiary bombs, hand grenades, rocket launchers, missiles, missile launching systems, light machine guns, and land mines.

Both IANSA and the UN want to ban the ownership of all military firearms too. They believe that would be a good beginning. The military firearms ban paints with their broadest multinational brush and is dangerous. The UN definition of military firearms includes all firearms ever used by a military.

If the UN and IANSA are successful in just banning military firearms, then say goodbye to all the usual suspects you own that anti gun groups are after. Goodbye to Shotguns, 1911 Colts, numerous revolvers, Baretta 92F, the Model 70, the M1 Garand and Carbine, and others too numerous to list.

Taken to a ridiculous extreme, even flintlocks and percussion rifles and pistols would fall under the broad definition of military weapons. But, anything is possible with the UN and Obama. It can't happen? Just consider NYC Mayor Bloomberg recently becoming apoplectic over a man's private ownership of a working Revolutionary War replica flintlock in the Big Apple and refusal to register it. The law specifically exempts this type of firearm from the onerous New York City registration requirement. But the law does not matter when anti gun emotion is involved.

Even the Clintons in their misguided Assault Weapons Ban would not include the M1 Carbine andGarand on the banned list because of the feared backlash from multitude of veterans who served from pre-WWII through early Viet Nam and carried these workhorses. The majority of these vets would have loudly protested the ridiculousness of these guns or any guns for that matter being included in a ban. They would have loved to have brought them home with them when discharged. But, now with the median age of WWII vets at about 87 years old, they won't be around too much longer to argue the foolishness of bans on these guns.

Lest we forget, the attack on our firearms freedoms is still underway and persistent. Its like quicksand- always there. The UN, IANSA, groups like the Bradys haven't given up. And with Barack Obama's shaky hands on the wheel of the ship of state, we must remain ever vigilant.

For more information on the CCRKBA letter about the UN, contact www.ccrkba.org.