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by JALLEN
Thu Mar 21, 2013 3:50 pm
Forum: Gun and/or Self-Defense Related Political Issues
Topic: UN reopens talks on NRA-opposed arms trade treaty
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Re: UN reopens talks on NRA-opposed arms trade treaty

From today's IBD:

Kerry Commits U.S. To U.N. Arms Trade Treaty Gun Grab

U.S. Rights: As the world body meets this week to hammer out an agreement to restrict international arms trade, our Secretary of State commits us to pushing a treaty that may also restrict our Second Amendment rights.

Last Friday, the day of the week when unpopular or controversial announcements are traditionally made, Secretary of State John Kerry announced U.S. support for the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), a final version of which is being hammered out in New York beginning this week.

Certainly the ATT is controversial. Touted as a means of getting a handle on an international arms trade valued at $60 billion a year, its stated purpose is to keep illicit weapons out of the hands of terrorists, insurgent fighters and organized crime at an international level.

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by JALLEN
Tue Mar 19, 2013 12:26 pm
Forum: Gun and/or Self-Defense Related Political Issues
Topic: UN reopens talks on NRA-opposed arms trade treaty
Replies: 10
Views: 1127

Re: UN reopens talks on NRA-opposed arms trade treaty

Maybe.

Or maybe Glock and the rest open up manufacturing facilities here, if it makes financial sense. If it doesn't for them, or they guess wrong, thousands of small manufacturers will stuff their garages and workshops with machines and start making parts, then entire guns. I know some who do that already. Can you say "LaRue", or "JP" the first two that come to mind.

If it is a big enough problem, it will be a big enough opportunity. The best opportunities come thoroughly disguised as unsolvable problems.

This is not to say the treaty is a good or desirable idea, of course.

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