This is potentially good news:
Twelve Democratic senators have joined 45 Republicans in a fast growing movement to halt progress on an Obama-backed United Nations effort that could bring international gun control into the United States and slap America’s gun owners with severe restrictions.
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Montana Democratic Sen. Jon Tester’s office today provided Whispers with their letter, signed by 11 other Democrats, urging the president to press for significant changes in the treaty. Their major concern: that domestic manufacture, possession, and sales of firearms and ammo will be included, thereby giving an international authority the right to regulate arms sales already protected by the Second Amendment. They also said any move for an international gun registry would be a non-starter. [See editorial cartoons about the Democrats.]
A Republican letter circulated by Kansas Republican Sen. Jerry Moran has 45 signatures.
Ratification requires two-thirds of the Senate. So far 57 senators have said they would vote against the treaty, expected to be wrapped up next year.
With almost two-thirds opposed to the treaty, it isn’t going to make it through the Senate, but this is one of the ways the Left hopes to get around the Second Amendment. Treaties are the highest law of the land, possibly trumping the Constitution itself. I am glad to see this get thrown on the scrap heap.
Tags: gun control, Treaties, UN
