The UN's Assault on Gun Rights

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Friday Digest

The UN's Assault on Gun Rights

July 13, 2012

"The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic." --Joseph Story

The United Nations is now considering its Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), a document that threatens Second Amendment rights of American citizens.

The treaty must clear many hurdles before that threat comes to fruition, but we must remain aware and active in opposing it.

In 2009, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution to hold a conference to draft the ATT.

That conference began July 2 -- ironically, just as we celebrated our Independence from tyranny.

Details will be crafted throughout July, but the push is well underway to regulate the trade of weapons around the globe. Some nations say the treaty shouldn't regulate domestic arms sales, but others -- notably, Mexico -- say that not even individual rights should excuse "products traded without controls.

" Mexico has long blamed American guns for its own drug war, a con in which the Obama administration has been complicit.

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