Uh oh - the UN takes step 1 in the US...

[aardwolf]

I don't know any FFLs who have a storefront in Africa.

[Ashlar]

I don't know any FFLs who have a storefront in Africa.

Nope, but it was originally sold here.

[Fangs]

Anyone else see this as a convenient addition to the "90% of guns in Mexico are bought in the U.S." lie? Now they can say the U.S. is arming African nations too... how long before we have to stop selling guns to anyone in the U.S. in order to save the world from those evil guns?

[tacticool]

I don't think the UN should get the trace information. If the UN wants to give the firearm info to the State Department, they can check if there was an export license issued. If not, the feds can determine if they want to do a trace and possibly prosecute for illegal arms exports. But the UN shouldn't get the trace info, like I shouldn't get trace info if I find a firearm at a crime scene.

[Kevinf2349]

So the UN has't got enough to do trying to keep Greece afloat, solving the Middle East crisis, watching what Iran is doing, stopping the ethnic violence in the former USSR, and putting up with the French belly aching about just about anything. l

[mr surveyor]

the UN is ruled by a conglomeration of the lowest of human debris on the planet, in my opinion, and was NEVER a good idea..... the original "League of Nations", it's predecessor, was rejected, although it was the ultimate in new world order progressive thinking. We have been bilked out of trillions of dollars of US wealth by this "organization", and will continue to until we wake up. Allowing the UN to have any type of personal information concerning American citizens, whether firearms related, medical related or anything else, is an affront to US sovereignty..... I am amazed that there are still American citizens theat think the UN has anything good to offer our country.


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[sjfcontrol]

I am amazed that there are still American citizens theat think the UN has anything good to offer our country.

I am continually amazed at the shallowness of most (all?) liberal thinking.

[Pinkycatcher]

So the UN has't got enough to do trying to keep Greece afloat, solving the Middle East crisis, watching what Iran is doing, stopping the ethnic violence in the former USSR, and putting up with the French belly aching about just about anything. l

No the EU is trying to keep Greece afloat, to do so is requiring something the EU never wanted to do, inject money directly into a member state, they prefer to keep it in complex back deals regarding agriculture, or advancement (generally going to Eastern European countries and Ireland) but this time they're dealing with a fairly up-to-date economic country that's requiring tactics the EU never wanted to employ.

The more you know (and having just taken an economics of the EU class, it's not worth it, just to say the EU takes only 1% of Europe's GDP to run, but it's stupidly complex and has very little relative power compared to individual states, but what they want to do is turn the EU into basically the US, at least some people)