USA – -(Ammoland.com)-Though then, Secretary of State John Kerry signed the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) on behalf of the United States on September 25, 2013, the Obama Administration waited until December 9, 2016, to transmit the treaty to the Senate.
The strength of the opposition to the treaty and the fact that the Administration only acted when it had less than six weeks left in office make clear that the ATT has no chance of receiving the advice and consent of the Senate.
Therefore, like a number of other treaties, it will await action by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC) when the next Administration enters office.
The ATT is not in the interest of the United States. The process by which it was negotiated violated the Obama Administration’s own red lines, and it will be used by left-wing organizations in highly selective campaigns against U.S. arms sales to allies such as Israel.[1] It will do nothing to improve arms export controls in the U.S. or anywhere else in the world, and other nations are already using it as a pretext to demand tighter controls on firearms inside the United States.
The incoming Administration and the Senate should make it clear that the U.S. will not become a party to the ATT.
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A Simple Plan in 2017 for the Arms Trade Treaty: Return to Sender by AmmoLand Shooting Sports News on Scribd
About Ted R. Bromund, Ph.D.:
Ted R. Bromund studies and writes on British foreign and security policies and Anglo-American relations as senior research fellow in The Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom. He also explains why America must defend and advance its unique leadership role in the world. Visit: https://blog.heritage.org/author/tbromund/ to read more.
Better yet, make the twisted gun into real guns and give them to Israel
While we are at it: defund the UN.
kick it out of the U.S.
sell the twisted barrel gun for scrap and make sure it is melted.
We do not need third world countries telling us what to do and voting against us at every chance they have.
Obummer and Traitor kerry broke the law when they signed this piece of paper. It means NOTHING to the Sovereign Country of America. NO individual, group or organization can tell America what it CAN or CANNOT do within the borders of America. A bill needs to be passed that restates the FACT that if a new idea comes along that disagrees with the Constitution, that idea is null and void from the day it was first thought about. kerry and obummer are both TRAITORS to the American People and to America. They should be residing in a prison awaiting final… Read more »