U.S. agrees to timetable for UN Gun Ban
The United Nations and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are moving forward with their plan to confiscate your guns.
The United States joined 152 other countries in support of the Arms Trade Treaty Resolution, which establishes the dates for the 2012 UN conference intended to attack American sovereignty by stripping Americans of the right to keep and bear arms.
Working groups of anti-gun countries will begin scripting language for the conference this year, creating a blueprint for other countries when they meet at the full conference.
The stakes couldn’t be higher.
Former United Nation’s ambassador John Bolton has cautioned gun owners about the Arms Trade Treaty and says the UN “is trying to act as though this is really just a treaty about international arms trade between nation states, but there’s no doubt that the real agenda here is domestic firearms control.”
Establishing the dates for the Arms Trade Treaty Conference is just the first step toward their plans for total gun confiscation.
The worldwide gun control mob will ensure the passage of an egregious, anti-gun treaty…
. . .and that’s where Secretary of State Hillary Clinton steps in.
Once the UN Gun Ban is passed by the General Assembly of the United Nations it must be ratified by each nation, including the United States.
As an arch enemy of gun owners, Clinton has pledged to push the U.S. Senate to ratify the treaty. She will push for passage of this outrageous treaty designed to register, ban and CONFISCATE firearms owned by private citizens like YOU.
That’s why it’s vital you sign the special petition I’ve made up for your signature that DEMANDS your U.S. Senators vote AGAINST ratification of the UN’s “Small Arms Treaty.”
So far, the gun-grabbers have successfully kept the exact wording of their new scheme under wraps.
But looking at previous versions of the UN “Small Arms Treaty,” you and I can get a good idea of what’s likely in the works.
Don’t let any of the “experts” lull you to sleep by saying “Oh, we have it handled” or “Until you know exactly what’s in the treaty you can’t fight against it.”
Judging by Ambassador Bolton’s comments — who certainly knows what to expect from the American-freedom-hating international crowd that infests the U.N. — we are certain the treaty’s going to address the private ownership of firearms.
If passed by the UN and ratified by the U.S. Senate (which is where we must ultimately make our stand), the UN “Small Arms Treaty” would almost certainly FORCE national governments to:
*** Enact tougher licensing requirements, making law-abiding citizens cut through even more bureaucratic red tape just to own a firearm legally;
*** CONFISCATE and DESTROY ALL “unauthorized” civilian firearms (all firearms owned by the government are excluded, of course);
*** BAN the trade, sale and private ownership of ALL semi-automatic weapons;
*** Create an INTERNATIONAL gun registry, setting the stage for full-scale gun CONFISCATION. So please click here to sign the petition to your U.S. Senators before it’s too late!
You see, this is NOT a fight we can afford to lose.
Here’s what you can do to help the National Association for Gun Rights fight Hillary Clinton and her United Nations cronies:
• Forward this petition to your friends and relatives who share your concern for American sovereignty and protecting our right to keep and bear arms.
• Please consider making a generous contribution to the National Association for Gun Rights to help us fight Hillary Clinton and the United Nations “Small Arms Treaty.”
When is one of our elected officials going to draft a bill that makes it a mandatory law that all US Citizens are REQUIRED TO OWN A FIREARM!!!!
Until the transition time comes from (Talking the Talk to Walking the Walk) no one knows how they will react. Just hope you will be in good company when it happens.
we are all going to end up fighting our own goverment.
Out of my cold dead hands, M—-5 F—-r
To Richard. You better get out of America, because people are sick of you and your “ilk” as you put it. We’re fed up with the manipulation of our people through usury and debt slavery. We’re sick of the mass murder, communism, and everything else that comes with your people. We KNOW about the 40+ million people killed in Russia when your communist “ilk” took over. We know how your people slaughtered 3 million Armenians. We know how your people killed 7-10 million Ukrainians by starvation. We know how your “ilk” starved 3 million Germans to death after WWII. We know how your “ilk” firebombed Dresden, killing up to 500,000 innocent civilians in a real “holocaust” or burnt offering. We know that your people have infiltrated our congress, senate, white house, and judicial system. We know how your ilk have control of the media, hollywood, and most major corporations. We know how your “ilk” view the rest of us as “goyim” or “cattle”. We know how your “ilk” have been kicked out of EIGHTY FOUR different countries for the SAME THINGS since 250AD, and we are FED UP with your “ilk”. We also know that your “ilk” are NOT a religion, but a RACE of parasites, and we will deal with you AND your parasitic “ilk” like any other parasite. Time for America to de-worm itself and restore it’s health, and getting rid of YOUR “ilk” is the only way. 109 exiles over the last 1750 years prove that the one thing you can’t avoid is exile 110 from America.
You traitorous subversives have no say in your fate. Tell your gun grabbing buddies on capitol hill to go ahead and try us, because we KNOW for a FACT that YOUR “ilk” are behind almost EVERY piece of anti-gun legislation in America. America has had enough of your nation wrecking, genocidal “ilk”. Legislation doesn’t stop bullets.
http://www.subvertednation.net
It’s not enough to let them pry it from your cold dead hands. You must exercise your right to bear arms and in accordance with the Constitution, protect the freedoms of your country by using that weapon in defense of the Constitution. Bottom line – take some of them with you when you go, don’t just go, go down fighting.
They will have to take the gun from my dead hands. I WILL NEVER willingly give it up. Anyone who tries to take it will take a bullet first.
I fought in Nam and came back to shameful behavior by ALL of my fellow countrymen and woman. They turned their backs on all my brothers. I forgave them and waited for them to come to their senses to realize the price I and all the men and women before me who have give their lives, bodies, and loyalty to this country to preserve the constitution our blessed forefathers formed for us. They KNEW that this day would come again so they formed the Second Amendment and put it in place. American men and women have been dying and worse, coming back maimed-diseased-crazy all in the name of freedom. My best friend in the world died in Nam and a proud Marine in 1966 for this nation. The people that really run this country are the ones that want this amendment killed. They are the ones that want to take away the last hope for real freedom in this country and the world. We are just “eaters” to them, not worthy to live except to serve them. What can we do now to fight? Write-call-go see every National, State, and City official in office today, as well as, any candidate running for office, and ask them their stand on gun control. If they are for it tell them they will be defeated by your efforts and your fellow countrymen who understand the true purpose of the second amendment…the right to bear arms to fight the tiranists and traitors who would turn this country back to a feudal state of kings and slave. Talk to everyone every chance you get. It’s the most important thing you can do. Just talk to people and remind them of their rights and duty to preserve those rights. Come on, Old Dog, WAKE UP, and fight em?
In 1992, Bush Senior signed an Agreement with the United Nations.
It has changed the entire world.
You can learn of what the most diabolical plan in this world is by doing a little research.
Use a search engine of your choice and type this in:
United Nations Agenda 21 Sustainable Resettlements Sustainable Development Biodiversity Depopulation.
It will open an entire new world of understanding about the WHY all politicians and world leaders are attempting to take us all down into hell.
Land Grab, Gun Grab, it’s all part of the Elite’s plans for us.
Once more and more people learn about AGENDA 21, which in the United States is called, ‘The Wildlands Project’ or ‘Re-Wilding’ you can begin to STOP the Elites from turning the world into a communistic/marxist hell hole.
They can be stopped. But, more and more people need to REALIZE what AGENDA 21 does to us.
When ALL peoples of the world, ALL governments of the world, EVERYONE in the world agrees to stop killing each other, THEN and only THEN will i consider giving up my right as a human being to defend myself, my family, my community, my nation. The only way for me to ensure that i can stand between my family and harm is to be sure i am armed in a manner such that those intent on doing harm are forced to rethink their plans. The only way to be sure is to have firearms and be properly trained in their use in deadly situations. So they can try to take my weapons away from me. And i will consider that a threat to myself, my family, my community, my country. AND I WILL ACT ACCORDINGLY !!
Blue helmets make great targets….
MOLON LABE!!
I agree with Negativefunction, Bob franco & Swollowit…Come get me…
How about organizing a “Million Gun March” on Washington (on the mall). And if they don’t swear to uphold and obey the Constitution, you will all know which way to point your guns (as symbolism).
Also, check out this new link here:
http://www.citizensamericaparty.org/british_lowlife_empire.htm
You’ll know why the colonial Americans hated them.
Organize and never give up.
Good luck and God Bless.
I fought in the gulf war and for our rights as Americans. If they ratify this crazy idea of taking our rights and try to make us give up our guns, they will start a new cival war. I personaly will never give up my weapons and they will have a fight if they do. I have seen shows of the destruction of the weapons in the UK and Austraila, and the crime rates have increased, not decreased. Try and take my weapons.
If the Federal Goverment wants to provoke a New Revolutionary War, all they need do is Ratify this Bill when it comes to the floor of the House and Senate and with the passage of said Bill and signiture of the President they will have commited Treason against the Constitution and the People of the United States of America. And will Justify the people to Take Up Arms Against them. And I Dennnis Carl Hendricks Sr. do Hear-by Swear By my own Free Will that I Will do all that I can do to Protect the Constitution of The United States of America. DON´T TREAD ON ME.
They can take my guns. They just have to take them bullets first.
I wish there to be a way that those of us able to throw down, could mass and survive -even under modest, tent/shower quarters, with arms and invite others to join us. I am ready to start pointing fingers and asking for assistance. The time is near. I’m tired of waiting and do not want to let the opportunity to be a part of the history which, evidentally MUST be made. I am just one man.
I myself have just finishing serving my country after 8 years and 3 tours in Iraq. I swaer to uphold the consituion not some none americans version of it. I got to say it is time and now that we shall never give up our wepons in the next 2 years the goverment ran by the aniti christ is is getting it footing setting the stage to take full control of the world call me crazy most do even though they agree but they dont want to be labeled as crazy. The USA needs help but only the true partriots see how badly we need to stand up and say no more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I will put this out there I have seen frist hand these banns and retrictions placed upon the the post confict and peace keeping conuntries such as Kosovo , Bosnia and Iraq the retrictions they want will reduce the posibiliy to stand and fight. That is the the Idea they can and will do what ever they want becuse the moajority of the US citizins wont stand and fight even the gun owners the USA is I truly hate to say it are cowards the goverment pushes us around and law enforcment act as gods. We truly do not have any freedom hell we vote for presidents but we dont elect them there freinds on capital hill do that.WE are not a free country and more we only have the illusion of freedom.
I have to say we all can write say and petion any thing we want the goverment laughs at it and us the only way they take anything inclueding us as a people seriusely is we atand together and only if we stand together will they take us seriuosly. But our complaning and our blogs dont do any good never have the only way is though us standing together and taking control of our country other wise we are no better then the ones that have destoyed it.
And if thoses idots show up at my door they will have allready filled alot of body bags and if they make it to that point then they better be ready for a long hard fight. They shall never get my guns there will be no reason for them to pry them from my finger I be taking theres.
I am 76 years old, and don’t have forever to enforce the “NO TRESPASSING” sign. But I’m waiting patiently for Hillary’s thugs to take my guns!
If Hillary uses a UN treaty to circumvent a Constitutional right – is that not TREASON?
I submit to all concerned with this issue; write your Congressional Representatives to bring forth a bill that will add such actions by an appointed official to be specified as an act of treason and thereby grounds for impeachment.
. . . and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books.” Revelation 20:12
going out right now to buy a big load of guns..
Molon Lave
ENGLAND CONFISCATED THE PEOPLES GUNS, NOW CRIME IS UP ABOUT 70% COUNTRIES WHERE GUNS WERE CONFISCATED WERE SOON OVER-RUN BY GERMANY IN THE 30′S, CONFISCATE THE CITIZENS GUNS MEANS CRIMINALS WILL ALWAYS HAVE GUNS, YOU CAN HAVE MY GUNS WHEN THEY PRY MY COLD DEAD FINGERS FROM AROUND THEM, I HAVE FIRED SOMEWHERE AROUND A QUARTER OF A MILLION ROUNDS, AND NEVER SHOT AT ANYONE, BUT IF I DID, I WOULDNT MISS, ANYONE TRY TO STORM MY HOME TO REMOVE MY GUNS AND SOMEONE WILL DIE
That will be enough to push this Country over the edge… Not a good idea
I, too, will kill any official who attempts to disarm me! And I will NOT be playing defense!
Divided we fall. If and when H-hour rolls around (i.e. the betrayal by our rebellious servants) it’s time to start hunting. Kill everyone who votes for this shit and all their support networks, too.
Come and get it! I refuse to remain anonymous. I want credit for my beliefs!
Keith Mahone,
Annandale VA
To even offer to put that bill before congress is a act of Treason.Obama has circumvented congress and the constitution by appointing the Czars and the panel of 10 governors. Impeach him and Joe Biden run Pelosi Clinton and all the other Communist out of office charge them with treason and lock them up.
Signing petitions and standing on street corners with signs isn’t going to get the job done anymore, hell even voting is a waste of time since the left and the right are just about the same. All I can say is if you come for my guns bring friends…lots of friends.
P.S.
Swollowit : “Haiti was a mess. I kind of feel for them. But where the hell were they during hurricane Katrina? Who the hell helped us?”
These countries did:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_response_to_Hurricane_Katrina
Ugh! people, friends, AMERICANS, PATRIOTS, before you start ranting about some conspiracy theory of us loosing our guns… read the damn UN bill! This is more about weapons and arms being exported to third world dictatorship, mafia, drug lord, type of groups causing genocide against other groups (think Mexican border)ask the question, how can we stop the killings whether in Africa, middle east, Mexican border cities or other UN supported countries, I would assume land mines are also a part of this bill. That said, no law over my dead body will ever take yours or my gun collection.
Morons. The reason you have guns in the first place is to SHOOT TRAITORS. It’s not so you can have a collection and feel good about it. It’s not so you can hunt, or go target shooting. The WHOLE REASON is to KILL INFILTRATORS….that’s it. You don’t have guns so you can say “from my cold dead hands”. OK, they’ll send a team of 20 to surround your house, and take them from your cold dead hands. Then what? You have guns so that you can ATTACK THEM and fix the problem. Not so you can wait until it’s your turn and each fight your individual little battles. You need to FORM UP and DO SOMETHING….start by checking out http://www.realoathkeepers.org Read Basic Training for Revolutionaries and let’s get on with this thing already.
People, answer me this. If it were to start tomorrow with just me being violated of my rights. My “arms” taken away from me and leaving incapable of defending my family and Our Nation. My question is this. Would seeing injustice done to one of your fellow Americans be enough for you rise up against oppressors on there way tward you? This is theoretiacally asked for good reason. For we need to know when to do what is right, to maintain right being what it is we are to do.
Look people it is up to us to stop this!! if this does not get our attention I do not know what will I,,, and Chauvin, I dis agree the bill and the wording from our govt is not even out yet it will be run thru our govt in the middle of the night like everything else this administration learned from the Best George Bush and his administration, This administration will not be happy until they have power over each and every person’ think about it like this if you have people that are totally dependant on the govt it is much easier to control them.. thats why they want people broke that is the liberals voting base for the most part the poor ..here is another view about this process,How well did the govt help those that could not help them selfs in Katrina… they dont want people to think much less outside the little box they put us in with every law that comes to pass…Most people are not paying attention to anything and they no it…. they will pry my guns out of my cold dead hands .. this country was not founded on this it is time for more than our soldiers to start to stand up for our freedoms this is one i will die for !!! I have a good life but this is taking it to another level It is time to stand up to our govt freedom is not free and it is time for everyone to stand up or go down with the shipp cause it is going to sink if we do not get off of our asses & do something this is way beyond different party’s this is about our rights of passage….
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Laws enacted by our own politicians without the vote and consent of the citizens of this great nation should be put upon billboards across the country and labeled VOID! Each should be made to stand in public and answer any questions the citizens would like to ask concerning the laws they are bemanding we follow. They are very bold when in numbers of majority and the laws can be formulated in back rooms to avoid the judgement of honest men and women who are not fearful of truth. We mustlet the law makers know that they are paid by the United States taxpayers and are accountable to every one of us. The ones who lie, cheat and steal from the people should be treated like all criminals…harshly and given no quarter!
OUT OF MY COLD DEAD HANDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@Chauvin Sorry but i don’t support disarming other counties any more than i support disarming ours.
Talk about Chicken Little, the sky is falling, the sky is falling!!!!!
Are there so many gullible people out there who either can’t read, too lazy to read or only selectively read what they want to read. Read the DAMN bill before writing such verbal bullsh**t and petitioning senators. When does the UN ever have any power to do anything anyways. You can keep your damn guns…the Supreme Court already says so.
And this article was linked to by the Daily Crux (more like Daily Crud although it does have some interesting articles but mostly hyperbole about nothing.)
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Don’t be so sure the UN can’t intervene in the US. It would not be legal or Constitutional, but with many of our leaders in cahoots with them, they can accomplish a lot. Constitution does not provide for lifetime Congressional pensions, but they have them.
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They probably will sign and radify this joke of a treaty. However enforcing it will be another matter. The elite know of about 80 million guns I’ll bet there are at least 3 time that number that they do no know about.
Will they try to get the UN to invade our country? Bring it on.
They should remember that they provide some really good training to the vets. do they want it used against them?
I am retired law enforcement and military.
We must start at the ballot box. Get up and get involved. Remember let’s start there and see what happens. Then we can go to step 2 or 3 if required.
Well why not take our guns . They have looted the Federal Reserve and are still to this day brutally sodomizing the middle class . They killed our economy . Now the time has come to be disarmed slaves . Get ready to be beaten tazed stabbed raped starved shot chipped hauled off to Fema Camps and burned to death in ovens by our military , police and foreign troops . Enjoy the naked body scanners TSA is now legally afforded the right to view your naked body along with your children . Everything America is your fault giving up liberty for freedom means you don’t deserve either one . Blame yourself you let them take your freedom .
I will say it again, do a Search of this: AGENDA 21
And you will see clearly that the United States has been bowing down to what the United Nations wants since the 1992 UN Biodiversity Treaty was signed.
After Bush Sr., signed it, CLINTON then implemented the US’s decent into the loss of our freedom, LANDS, rights, what we will eat, everything is in AGENDA 21.
Now, @ the website NewsWithViews there’s even a DVD about it, or go to YouTube and just type in AGENDA 21, and there it all will come up. While your at it, you can take a look at the YouTube about WHO is way up high on the top of ‘Elites’ running the US: ‘The Committee of 300′ ‘Council of 13′ ‘Rothschild=Rockefeller’.
It all adds up to ONE THING——>>> AGENDA 21 for the World. As 178 countries in 1992 all agreed to Implement this Depopulation and Control of humans in PREFERENCE of Animals and Nature. They ALL believe in one thing:
DEEP ECOLOGY
Have you ever gone to say, YouTube and READ the ‘Georgia Guidestones’? You know those wierd stones some freak put up? Well, they were put there as a warning to the humans in the US as to the ‘Elites’ preference towards “Re-Wilding” of Nature.
Do you realize that the UN has a website that has a Interactive Mapping System of AGENDA 21 that was created by the University of Idaho in 2009?
LOOK AT THAT MAP! Over, 90% of the Western US is already GONE to the United States Government, and Land Locked, and put into what the UN calls, “protected areas”, “riparian”, “restoration” “heritage” “wildlands” “wetlands”, it goes on and on.
Do you know that the US Government has allowed the UN to put up a placard sign at the LINCOLN MEMORIAL and where the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE was signed, it’s part of the TAKE it from the US Heritage plan, all part of AGENDA 21! Please, learn of Agenda 21 by the UN.
Yes, they ARE taking and taking, and using the EPA, the Nature Conservancy, the Sierra Club, on and on to TAKE AWAY our Freedom.
The Committee of 300 knows there has been One thing and 1 thing only keeping them from taking away the United States rights completely and totally away: GUNS people GUNS.
They get the GUNS, they take the US!
I keep hearing on the news channels from repoters and politicians (repulicans and democrats)that violence is not the way, we will vote them out. I somewhat agree, violence should not be the first act but rather the last and final act. Have we forgotten our own revolution? When the king would not listen to reason or listen to anything at all, what was the final act? Violence. And look at the great nation that came from it. Have we forgotten the wars that have been fought to liberate these very same countries of the U.N. from the dictators that was inslaving them. What if we had said then, that violence was not the answer.
They keep pushing and pushing, and soon enough they will have pushed too far, and we patriots will rise again, against our choosing, then you will see the nastiest, bloodiest war this world has ever seen.
Then they can pry my cold, dead hands from my gun.
If you give up your guns, you should be considered a traitor to this country. Many have died so that you can own and bear arms, beside there are more of us Stand-up Citizens than communists in this Country, at least till now. We the people have been to busy to pay attention to the Communist Royalty that we have created, but we are starting to wake up, People of America lets run the Red Coats out again be it at the voting booth, or at the point of a Gun. We did it once, and as God is my witness, we will “tar and feather” them and get rid of them again….Blessed Be
With a LOT of looking, finally got to the bottem of this-
Most websites have cut and pasted the same story from here.
The UN’s fucos is really on international small arms trade. About how one country is selling/giving/transporting small arms from one country to another, and about a country tracking who has what inside their country.
Read these sources:
http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2009a/10/130573.htm
Here you get the official word straight from Hillary’s mouth.
Basically- ‘to have responsible arms exporters in place to ensure that weaponry is transferred for legitimate purposes.’ But of course, WHO will decide what is legitimate for whom?
http://www.undispatch.com/node/9553
UN Dispatch. Global News and Views
“Nine years ago, member states proposed setting in motion a treaty process that would make it more difficult for guerrilla movements, insurgents and irresponsible governments from easily obtaining small arms. The Bush administration, though, opposed the treaty process. This was problematic for the cause, as it were, because the United States is among the world’s largest exporter of small arms. Any treaty without the United States on board would not be very effective.
The Obama administration does not share the previous administration’s view of the utility of a small arms trade treaty.”
” this treaty process is all about restricting the international transfer of small arms”
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=17276
U.N. coming for your guns
Private groups, governments team up to restrict use, ownership of firearms.
“American gun owners and advocacy groups .. are suddenly finding that when it comes to firearms legislation, they had better pay attention to what’s happening not only in Congress and their state legislatures, but at the United Nations”
“On Sept. 24, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, of Ghana, called on members of the Security Council to “tackle one of the key challenges in preventing conflict in the next century” — the proliferation and “easy availability” of small arms and light weapons, which Annan identified as the “primary tools of violence” in conflicts throughout the world.
Annan praised the United Nations as a whole for playing “a leading role in putting the issue of small arms firmly on the international agenda.”
“Even in societies not beset by civil war, the easy availability of small arms has in many cases contributed to violence and political instability,” he said. “Controlling that easy availability is a prerequisite for a successful peace-building process.”
Talk is one thing, but the Security Council then unanimously adopted the “Report of the Group of Governmental Experts on Small Arms,” which had been released Aug. 19 to the General Assembly. The 26-member group’s various recommendations, two dozen in all, add up to a comprehensive program for worldwide gun control, and call for a total ban on private ownership of “assault rifles.” A few of the recommendations:
All small arms and light weapons which are not under legal civilian possession and which are not required for the purposes of national defense and internal security, should be collected and destroyed by States as expeditiously as possible.
All States should determine in their national laws and regulations which arms are permitted for civilian possession and the conditions under which they can be used.
All States should ensure that they have in place adequate laws, regulations and administrative procedures to exercise effective control over the legal possession of small arms and light weapons and over their transfer in order … to prevent illicit trafficking.
States are encouraged to integrate measures to control ammunition … into prevention and reduction measures relating to small arms and light weapons.
States should work towards … appropriate national legislation, regulations and licensing requirements that define conditions under which firearms can be acquired, used and traded by private persons. In particular, they should consider the prohibition of unrestricted trade and private ownership of small arms and light weapons specifically designed for military purposes, such as automatic guns (e.g., assault rifles and machine-guns).
And the United States gave assurances that the federal government has taken “a number of relevant national measures.” All United States citizens, wherever located, and any person subject to United States law, must now register in order to engage in arms brokering activities. …” That is, prior written approval from the State Department is required.
Contacted for comment, a State Department official who requested anonymity denied that the report spelled out gun control programs being imposed on this country via the United Nations, despite the fact that a State Department senior foreign affairs specialist, Herbert Calhoun, had served as a member of the group and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright — representing the United States on the Security Council — had endorsed the report.
“The United Nations will not dictate domestic gun control for any nation,” the official told WorldNetDaily. “They can make recommendations and nations can act on those recommendations as they see fit, but we will never have the United Nations telling countries what they should do.”
Questioned about specific recommendations, he replied, “Those are just recommendations — and surprisingly, a number of countries, including the U.S., take them up on those recommendations. In fact, we support all 24 of those recommendations.”
A newly-formed, globe-spanning coalition of national and international peace, disarmament, humanitarian and anti-gun groups called the International Action Network on Small Arms, is the kind of far-flung association that would have been all but impossible to organize and direct in the days before the Internet and e-mail.
“IANSA will act as a coordinator and facilitator for groups worldwide working to prevent the proliferation and misuse of small arms and light weapons. A small secretariat will be complemented in its role as an information warehouse and facilitator of ‘mini-campaigns” by heavy reliance on the web and e-mail. This format will help to harmonize the activities of a diverse group of organizations while allowing the flexibility necessary to address the components of this multi-faceted issue.”
Four months after its debut, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan spoke glowingly of the new organization for its role in directing public attention to the issue of firearms.
“The momentum for combating small arms proliferation has also come from civil society, which has been increasingly active on this issue,” Annan said in his Sept. 24 address to the Security Council. “The establishment early this year of the International Action Network on Small Arms has helped to sharpen public focus on small arms, which has helped us gain the public support necessary for success.”
“IANSA is a coalition of non-governmental organizations that was established to organize international efforts for controlling the global trade in firearms — that’s its main purpose,” said Michael Klare, one of its founders.
Organizers have developed a list of gun control measures IANSA supports, including:
Reducing the availability of weapons to civilians in all societies.
Providing resources to develop the capacity in national and local governments to achieve effective controls over small arms possession and use.
Promoting safe storage practices for small arms on the part of citizens and states.
Systematic collection and destruction of weapons that are illegally held by civilians.
Collection and verifiable destruction of surplus weapons as part of U.N. peacekeeping operations.
Promoting programs to encourage citizens to surrender illegal, unsafe or unwanted firearms.
Banning the advertisement and promotion of small arms to civilians.
According to the National Rifle Association’s Tom Mason: “Proposals are being floated of an international treaty banning civilian possession of military-style firearms — though it’s impossible to distinguish military from civilian; other proposals are calling for the destruction of all surplus military firearms, calling for the registration and regulation internationally of all manufacturing and shipping of firearms — there’s a whole series of very radical proposals.