We came four votes away from the U.S. Senate giving our Constitutional rights over to the United Nations. In a 53-46 vote, the Senate narrowly passed a measure that will stop the United States from entering into the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty.
The Statement of Purpose from the Bill reads:
“To uphold Second Amendment rights and prevent the United States from entering into the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty.” The U.N. Small Arms Treaty, which has been championed by the Obama Administration, Would have effectively placed a global ban on the import and export of small firearms. The ban would have affected all private gun owners in the U.S. And had language that would have implemented an international gun registry on all private guns and ammo. Astonishingly, 46 out of our 100 United States Senators were willing to give away our Constitutional rights to a foreign power.
Here are the 46 senators who voted to give your rights to the U.N.
Baldwin (D-WI)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bennett (D-CO)
Blumenthal (D-CT)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Coons (D-DE)
Cowan (D-MA)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Franken (D-MN)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Harkin (D-IA)
Hirono (D-HI)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kaine (D-VA)
King (I-ME)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Merkley (D-OR)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murphy (D-CT)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schatz (D-HI)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Udall (D-CO)
Udall (D-NM)
Warner (D-VA)
Warren (D-MA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)
Folks: This needs to go viral. These Senators voted to let the UN take OUR guns. They need to lose their next election. We have been betrayed. 46 Senators Voted to Give your 2nd Amendment Constitutional Rights to the U.N.
America! winding down from a highly wasteful, consumptive, degenerative way of life. Maybe we have had our day. Now its time for the third worlds to come out of their poverty and to have a little bit of life. Good day!
A while back I wrote how I felt about this; however, my comment was up for about 30 to 40 minutes, then removed. Apparently, my thoughts were to close to the truth, go figure!
wrong. it takes a 2/3 majority to ratify any treaty! look it up
Don’t believe skills for they have been proven untruthful. Go to the source to verify.
First our jobs are given away overseas and now they want our guns. We soon won’t be able to pay anything or be able to defend what we have left. Isn’t it still true in a Communist country your property belongs to the government.
Get a grip people. This is a false internet story from 2010. Never happened. http://www.snopes.com/politics/guns/untreaty.asp People will believe anything on the internet.
This is totally false, read this first before making judgements: http://www.snopes.com/politics/guns/untreaty.asp. What the UN wants is to BAN the ILLEGAL SALES OF WEAPONS BETWEEN COUNTRIES NOT BAN YOUR SECOND AMENDMENT LIKE MANY WANT YOU TO BELIEVE. Be informed first find out on your own before pointing fingers!!!!
If its already illegal isn’t it already banned?
so Jose, did you actually read the article or just the snopes article? because here’s the actual treaty from the UN’s page, https://treaties.un.org/doc/Treaties/2013/04/20130410%2012-01%20PM/Ch_XXVI_08.pdf#page=21
Exactly correct, most countries HATE illegal gun sales to terrorists and drug-runners by AMERICAN manufacturers. PLUS- The US COnstitution forbids any treaty from dissolving or eliminating any constitutional rights…
vote them OUT!
For those who think that this could never happen.. Just remember that Obozo said if you like your health care plan, your Doctor, etc you can keep it.. “Period end of Story” And we are now to believe that if you like your gun if you like your Constitutional right to bear arms you can keep it? Get real! Obozo and his minions are nothing more than IDIOTS who do not reverence the Constitution, nor do they fear the people any longer as they buy votes off with stimulus, welfare, and unlimited unemployment benefits.. the people are afraid if they go against this monster he will cut off the slop at the trough
Not an Obama fan by any stretch of the imagination, but this article is wrong. Maybe not in the vote, but in the information they are giving you. The ATT is for illicit arms trades, especially those aimed at countries/organizations with major human rights violations. The ATT will have no affect on our gun rights.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/guns/untreaty.asp
seems like something was left out in this.. there is no way this went down this way…. Some how I got this site that people live in a bubble and only see one side to things.. chow.
Those who deny without, first, checking are the problem. Why don’t you check?
Trailers!!!
Ok (Duh -D) look who voted for (Dum -D) wake up America !
Why don’t you just stop arguing with each other! You all look like fools goin back an forth about the same thing. We ALL KNOW the government is full of shit, the question is what are we going to do about it?
Screw the u.n. and all of their agendas…
Ah yes that is our wonderful government. A bunch of idiots!
Try and take my guns and I’ll take it as a threat and shoot u..they bleed just like we do
Also another senator is trying to give one million illegal aliens pardon and make them citizens
I just got a post this morning that said, 46 senators voted too give our second amendment up to the UN . You tell me if the goverment thinks we are fools
Hitler did take away the guns in his country in 1935. Go back and check your history
Four votes more and we would have lost our second amendment
Amazing to me, how that a whole generation of people can apparently lose all common sense. i blame the educational system that we have, that has been used for years as a political platform for leftist reform. I believe we can do better parents with the choices we make in educating our children away from the basic landmarks that our forefathers have set. “REMOVE NOT THE ANCIENT LANDMARK, WHICH THY FATHERS HAVE SET” Prov. 22:28
Le Strat, Lets not mistake “liberty” with “freedom”. Liberty is what Navy sailors got when they docked their ship at a foreign port during a cruise. They were under orders, and under the command of their Captain or highest commanding officer, and required that officer’s permission, or LIBERTY, to go ashore and have fun. They did not have the freedom to do so, they were at liberty to do so. I have freedom to own a firearm, guaranteed by the Constitution, I do not need permission to exorcise it. Aside from that I agree with you that ANY legislation that takes away from that freedom is treasonous. Our current president has been the most dangerous in history, as he has been making law that usurps our freedom, law that directly takes our right to choose for ourselves away. Like claiming that if we have no health insurance we will be fined 3% of our income. Who is he to punish me for that CHOICE!?? Who is he to make law that directly affects MY FEDERAL INCOME TAX WITHHOLDINGS IN ANY WAY!!?? The government has no business dabbling in these kinds of things.
“who is he to impose a federally mandated income tax law that affects my federally mandated income tax law?!” Funny.
Yep! The most dangerous president in history found and killed the guy who was the LEADER of the most dangerous terrorist organization that had declared war and Jihad on all Americans! They guy who saved the US auto industry(according to SU auto Industry CEO’s), the guy who demanded reforming of the FRAUDULENT banking and financial industries! The guy who REFUSED to torture and kidnap people, like conservatives have twice RE-AUTHORIZED! YOU could be kidnapped and held without legal representation, and FOUND by using AL-AMERICAN WIRETAPS that conservatives voted to LEGALIZE!
Oh yeah, conservatives APPOINTED by the LAST president turned “Corporations into people”, and “MONEY = Free speech”, LEGALIZING bribing and BUYING every elected official in the country!
Conservatives keep voting to go BACK to 45,000 Americans DYING each year from a lack of healthcare, over a MILLION dead since they stopped universal healthcare in ’93.
Yep! Obama is the most dangerous President, because he got WMD inspectors into IRAN without firing a shot!
Solar is now 50% cheaper from the demand that Obama’s Green Stimulus created. Energy supply is MUCH more and use is much less! and WITH MUCH LESS POLLUTION, which sickens and kills thousands of Americans each year!
NO WORLD WAR III,..CLeaner and water! DAMN YOU OBAMA!
The Founding Fathers are rolling in their graves.
FORGET VOTING THEM OUT. WE NEED TO ORGANIZE AND IMPOSE A CITIZENS’ ARREST.
TYPICAL REPUBLICAN FEAR-MONGERING, I dont see anywhere this would have effected gun owners, the bill is to stop guns from crossing international borders…. thats a good thing… the people it would most likely impact are the people who are having ak 47s smuggled into their country in a militant civil war, this ban would save lives of children in war torn countries. If the bill stops one bullet from one rifle from killing one 8 year old, why are people against it?
It’s funny, because Bozo the clown there in DC is known to have been shipping weapons TO said terrorist groups in said war torn countries- Where locals rape little boys and fornicate with their livestock.
Matthew Smith, you sir are very wrong. First, some of the finest firearms we can purchase here in the US are imported from different countries. Second, do you really think it would affect “smuggled” weapons? Drugs are illegal and they are “smuggled” into this country everyday.
Smith you are in the perfect world,which ddoesnt exhist.it would have affected everyone in the U.S..wake up!Obama is out to destroy America,believe it!
Does anyone here *honestly* believe that United States Senators made a conscious decision to take away your rights under the Second Amendment? If that were true, would there be any possible positive endgame for doing so? Or, for that matter, any legal precedent? Approach this with logic, not emotion. Read the entire bill, not just the alarmist portions that have been served up like so much red meat. If we decide not to consume partisan rhetoric (like this), the corporate purveyors of such tripe will soon be out of work. Choose to think. It’s not that hard.
YES YOU MORON! That’s EXACTLY what they did! If they did not read and UNDERSTAND the WHOLE damn thing, along with all it’s ramifications, then they had NO BUSINESS voting for it! Very, very simple concept! If your rights are sold out from under you by intent, or by ignorant neglect, the end result is the same, so go peddle your BS somwhere else Comrade!
I’m gonna guess you did not read and UNDERSTAND the whole damn thing….otherwise you would know that the treaty very specifically says that it DOES NOT take away a country’s right to handle their own conventional weapons inside their own borders according to their own laws and constitution. The treaty has exactly ZERO to do with taking away your rights under the second amendment.
OB signed on to the treaty. The senate got near to ratifying. The “end-game” would be that the UN would need no further permission to limit Second Amendment gun rights, if, in its opinion, the proliferation of rogue guns in the world was exacerbated by the USA gun policy. The treaty surrenders control of US gun policy to the UN. This treaty – as all treaties do – preempts the US Constitution.
Yes, I believe that Charles Schumer, Diane Feinstein, and BO were aware of and in concert with the nefarious intent of this treaty.
You guys don’t get it. Registration is the first step to confiscation! Check your history books. And garbage foreign firearms???? I’d say Glocks, most AK’s, Berettas, and many other foreign firearms are by no means garbage and have set the standard for reliability. Do you honestly thing Feinstein (D- CA) is going to “promote sales of American guns in America”??? That discredits anything you guys said. She said, and I quote, “turn them ALL in Mr. and Mrs. America.” They are traitors and should be treated as such. “Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
This isn’t taking anyone’s right to anything away. It creates an international trade ban, and registry safeguard similar to the ones already in place. If anything it promotes those inclined to purchase weapons, to purchase from within the good ol’ USA.
I’ll be the first one to tell you I’m very ANTI 2nd amendment. I have no issue with people who want to own a firearm for hunting, or personal protection, but I cannot find any legitimate or logical reason for owning a “collection” or any kind of automatic or semi-automatic weapons by regular citizens.
That having been said, I dont see the wording of this legislation as removing any of the rights currently afforded to citizens. The only difference affecting anyone’s day to day would be the lack of foreign small firearms.
Because, as we all know, if you make guns illegal then all the gun crime would stop just like along drugs illegal stopped all the drugs for coming in. Nobody cares if you are “anti second amendment” having guns (as many as I want) is none of your damn business!!! You don’t like guns then don’t buy any but trust me, getting rid of guns isn’t going to save any lives because then the only people that will have them will be the bad guys.
Your conclusion is in the wrong direction. The UN could stop US gun manufacture.
Gun registry is the precursor of confiscation. Read “Innocents Betrayed” to understand why I want to own a gun. And NO, it’s not about hunting.
Are you STUPID? I’m thinking that’s a yes… do you collect anything? Do you have interests? Some people’s interests are GUNS. And what the hell matter does it make to you if someone wants a collection of guns? Go fuck yourself and your ‘anti 2nd amendment rights’ logic. You’re oblivious.
As much as I disagree with those 46 senators, this legislation would take away guns from exactly 0 Americans. Honestly if you knew anything about American law you would know this. The government cannot charge you for something you did while it was legal. That’s why people that bought alcohol on the last day before prohibition weren’t arrested. This legislation would stop the importation of foreign guns. Although you would have less variety, the legislation would have promoted sale of American guns in America.
Finally, this is why conservatives are losing the 2nd amendment. Instead of focusing on reasonable gun reforms (i.e. universal background checks which 90% or so Americans agree on), they use language like “take our guns away” which makes them sound unintelligent and just generally unreasonable.
Listen, stop with your lies. Get your facts straight. What poll in history contacted 90% of the people? None, so you and the rest of the Anti-American control freaks need to stop lying to make your ridiculous points. You don’t want a firearm don’t buy one but you have no place telling me I can not. You want to support the Communist with there UN crap move there!
Every good or bad deed has got to start somewhere! The bad people in our government work daily with ideas to gain more power for themselves and less for the American people. They put out those ideas to see if they can get people to accept them.
There is an agenda that no patriotic American would knowingly buy into. Every year they try for 100% of an idea and maybe gain 10%. The next year they do it again and gain another 10%. This is how Communism creeps in a little at a time. The 2nd amendment says that American gun ownership SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED! Look around and you will see this infringement taking place around the US in various ways. So, if our government is so trustworthy and lawful, why are there so many groups formed and so much money invested to stop them from this infringement?
We can no longer rely on congress making the right and lawful decisions. This gun control argument should be automatically thrown out the second it is brought up. Why, if the congress in acting lawfully, do they waste time discussing and voting on it? It’s madness!
you must be young…. do you think that Hitler just one day announced ” No more gun ownership” ?
Wrong.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/gun-makers-angry-over-ca-law-requiring-coded-ammo/
With SnW and Ruger refusing to sell in California with regulations like these its the beginning of the end for American Small Arms manufacturer. Oh keep in mind that law enforcement is exempt from stamping their ammunition. You know the people who use the most ammunition in the state.
You are a fool to believe that this is nothing to be concerned about. One little law here and one little regulation there and soon its almost impossible to get a gun. Wake up.
A lone voice of reason on an alarmist site, but even you are not entirely correct. This treaty wouldn’t “stop the importation of foreign guns”. The bill repeatedly states that it’s purpose is to prevent the ILLICIT trade of arms. Illicit = illegal. So, any foreign guns that are imported legally would not be effected.
So we need a law (bill) to stop illegal gun imports? There’s nothing on place to stop illegal guns from being imported?
We don’t need foreign interests determining what is legal in our system. Why would you agree to cede control of our country’s affairs to an institution which is obviously hostile to our interests?
Your an idiot. People had insurance policies before ACA, those policies bought privately through the open market were taken away from them via legislation. Once they control the “Market”, they can do whatever they wish
There are no honest elections, we need to RECALL these people NOW. Then try them for treason.
All democunts (yes, I see two ‘independents’) and the ‘who’s jew’ contingent, who are by the way the leaders of the anti-gun movement (why is that? he asks facetiously). Yes! They should all lose their seats, but better yet they should be tried for treason, found guilty, and shot or hung on state TV. They are enemies of the People and the People are the owners of this country. And the UN MUST be abolished from our shores, if not completely. It does not benefit us in any way.
Where exactly does this article actually give any proof that this is taking our guns away? All i see in the article is making an interantional gun registry similar to IAFIS for fingerprints. That isnt taking our guns away. Then the bill goes on to ban Import/Export of foreign firearms. All that does is keep foreign countries from getting American made firearms and it keeps garbage foreign firearms prone to failure off the american market. Seems pretty win/win to me and you know what the best part is? No where does it ever say that the government comes to confiscate your guns!
First off there is no one good reason ever to put our Constitution up for grabs under any circumstances. So the mirror fact that the treaty did make is a very bad situation for us.
Now if one reads and understands the Treaty it would have put control of our gun laws in the hands of a board with in the UN and they can at anytime decide to confiscate. Learn the history they have already done it around the world and the USA is one of the last standing.
Stop listening to main stream media, get educated and stand up for commonsense and right!
Ok…well, I read it, and I thought I understood it. But, you are apparently telling me I didn’t understand it. Because as I read it, it DOES NOT put control of our gun laws in the control of anyone but us. So, can you help me understand it better?
It says “Reaffirming the sovereign right of any State to regulate and control conventional arms exclusively within its territory, pursuant to its own legal or constitutional system,”
Can you please explain to me how that doesn’t say that countries get to keep control of their own gun laws?
Of course liberals like you don’t bother to know or just completely ignore the fine details. We would have to register ALL guns and ammo so there would be the ability to control how much a person could own. None of their business! Just another ploy to control and eventually eliminate our freedoms via proxy by some foreigner…NO THANKS
Amen Brother !!
Good catch. Most just blindly read. This is real ..just that the vote took place in March 2013. Here is the link to the roll call: http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=113&session=1&vote=00091
You sir are an intelligent young man… I have found over my many years that if the conservative side is totally against something .. they are nearly always right .. The liberals would give away our Country without firing a shot…
Except that the founding fathers were liberals. Or, in todays terms, libertarians.
This statement is riddled with personal opinion. To say that our founding fathers were liberals, implies that every one of them were liberals. That’s a generalized statement that would apply to 240 individuals who were viewed as founders of our nation.
Here are some facts: 29 of the original 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence had some kind of seminary or biblical degree. In 1782, 20,000 bibles were ordered from Holland, Scotland, and elsewhere because the U.S congressmen found that its teachings were so universal and had such great importance in its use. From the birth of our nation, the bible was taught in most primary schools as the main source of literature until 1962.
These facts are a far-cry from what is considered today as liberalism, assuming you are comparing their views to what would be today’s liberalism. Let it be dually noted that today’s liberalism is far from its original roots in its ideologies.