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2021-09-06 Home Front: Politix
Biden aims to sign on to UN's global gun registration treaty
Does he really think Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia will sign on to that?
[msn] The Biden administration this week signaled that it is eyeing a United Nations small arms treaty that critics claim will lead to an international gun registration plan — including for individual American gun owners.

Two years after former President Donald Trump withdrew from it, a top arms diplomat at the State Department told the global body that the current administration is swinging behind the Arms Trade Treaty.

"I have come from Washington, D.C., this week to take the floor on the agenda item Treaty Universalization to underscore the continuing commitment of the United States to responsible international trade in conventional arms," William Malzahn said at the 7th Conference of States Parties to the Arms Trade Treaty.

"The United States has long supported strong and effective national controls on the international transfer of conventional arms, and the Arms Trade Treaty is an important tool [for] promoting those controls internationally," he said according to a transcript provided to Secrets by the lobbying arm of the National Rifle Association.

The NRA has warned that, among many moves, the treaty will require all arms that Americans buy from overseas makers to be tracked. To do that, a global gun registry would be created and maintained for 10 years. Every owner will be listed on that registry.

"This is the first step towards creating a global firearms registry," said the Second Amendment advocacy group.

"President Biden wants to give foreign bureaucrats control over the rights of law-abiding Americans, and the NRA will fight it every step of the way," it added today in a Twitter thread.

In his statement, Malzahn said that the administration is reviewing and working to strengthen the "Conventional Arms Transfer Policy" that guides the transfer policy of firearms.
"You just can't leave em behind for a terrorist state to...oh, wait. Nevermind"
This is the first step towards creating a global firearms registry.

"The new CAT Policy will better frame the intent and priorities of the Biden/Harris administration and formalize the approach of the administration as adopted on arms transfer decisions that have been in effect since President Biden entered the White House in January," he said, according to the transcript.

"The revised CAT Policy should be finalized shortly and released as a public document. When it is, the United States will then use that policy framework to review specific arms transfer issues, including determining the proper relationship of the United States to the Arms Trade Treaty," he added.
Posted by 746 2021-09-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ]  Top

#1 I trust I will live long enough to see these sons of bitches kicked out of the United States.
Posted by Raj 2021-09-06 00:43||   2021-09-06 00:43|| Front Page Top

#2 Biden has done so much in the past few weeks to regulate the global flow of firearms. Poor, helpless bastid.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-09-06 03:11||   2021-09-06 03:11|| Front Page Top

#3 Seems most of the "treaties" we enter into nowadays require no action on the senate's part.
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-09-06 06:36||   2021-09-06 06:36|| Front Page Top

#4 Watch me and see if I comply
Posted by Deacon Blues 2021-09-06 08:14||   2021-09-06 08:14|| Front Page Top

#5 If Trump "withdrew" from the treaty, it seems likely that Biden could simply reinstate it. In that case, no senate approval necessary. Seems to imply it was already passed at some point.
Posted by Mercutio 2021-09-06 08:43||   2021-09-06 08:43|| Front Page Top

#6 This never passed the Senate, Obama signed it, trump unsigned it but it never got passed in the Senate, so any attempt to enforce it should be considered illegal. And I'm pretty sure you can't sign and ratify treaties that would negate the Bill of Rights. Constitutionally anyway. Not that I trust the Supreme Court these days to do the right thing.
Posted by Silentbrick 2021-09-06 09:35||   2021-09-06 09:35|| Front Page Top

#7 Do they even vote on anything or pass laws anymore? Seems to me everything is done by executive order.
Posted by Chris 2021-09-06 10:45||   2021-09-06 10:45|| Front Page Top

#8 The senate only has to pass a bill that anything a Democrat President signs is automatically passed.
They did it before.
Posted by CrazyFool 2021-09-06 11:03||   2021-09-06 11:03|| Front Page Top

#9 I will not comply. Forcing this will be a declaration of war as far as I'm concerned.
Posted by DarthVader 2021-09-06 13:31||   2021-09-06 13:31|| Front Page Top

#10 So it will end up like the pot legalization. Pot got legalized, regulated, and the best pot is on the black market. Guns will go down that road as well. It wont stop us. And they can enforce a law that wont get past the 2nd amendment.
Posted by 49 Pan 2021-09-06 15:44||   2021-09-06 15:44|| Front Page Top

#11 Good I feel better about shooting UN gun confiscators than US LEOs.
Posted by Gluter Mussolini5141 2021-09-06 16:04||   2021-09-06 16:04|| Front Page Top

#12 
Posted by Anomalous Sources 2021-09-06 17:25||   2021-09-06 17:25|| Front Page Top

#13 Time for a "Brief Musical Interlude"


JOE BIDEN IS AN ASSHOLE SONG [2021] (MUSIC VIDEO)
Posted by Uneper Spinetle8405 2021-09-06 18:08||   2021-09-06 18:08|| Front Page Top

#14 Just Another "Sign" From a Dissatisfied 😒 Voter.

Posted by Uneper Spinetle8405 2021-09-06 18:29||   2021-09-06 18:29|| Front Page Top

#15 The Hell to the f*&( to the N to the O
Posted by newc 2021-09-06 20:42||   2021-09-06 20:42|| Front Page Top

#16 Perhaps biden can start with all the weapons left in Afghanistan.
Posted by rjschwarz 2021-09-06 23:35||   2021-09-06 23:35|| Front Page Top

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