As we reported last month, on April 2, the United Nations General Assembly voted 153-4 to pass the Arms Trade Treaty, with the United States voting in favor and several countries abstaining. The vote in the General Assembly pushed the treaty process forward after negotiations twice failed to deliver on the goal of developing the treaty by consensus. The Obama Administration is expected to sign the treaty soon after it is opened for signature on June 3.
According to a May 16 Amnesty International article, a senior US diplomat--Assistant Secretary of State Thomas Countryman--has confirmed the U.S. government will be quick to sign the new treaty. According to the article, Countryman said on Wednesday that the United States would sign the ATT "in the very near future."
If the deeply problematic treaty is signed, the fight will move to the U.S. Senate, where the Obama administration would need to find 67 senators to ratify the treaty.
Of course, anti-gun Amnesty International approves of the treaty and is advocating its signing and ratification. In addition, Amnesty International has gone so far as to claim that the treaty will not affect "domestic gun control regulations."
On the contrary, the ATT does indeed threaten the rights and privacy of American gun owners. Signatories will be encouraged to keep information on the "end users" of arms imported into their territory and supply such information to the exporting country. Exporting nations, nearly all of which have civilian firearm control regimes far harsher than the U.S., will be encouraged to take the firearm control laws of an importing country into account before approving a transfer of arms. And the treaty also encourages states to adopt domestic legislation to facilitate the treaty's onerous requirements.
A majority of senators have already made clear their opposition to ratifying the ATT. On March 23, 53 senators endorsed an amendment to the Senate Budget Resolution for Fiscal Year 2014, "establish[ing] a deficit neutral fund" to oppose United States entrance into the treaty. Additionally, Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kans.), along with 32 cosponsors, has put forth a concurrent resolution expressing the Senate's opposition to the ATT, as it "fails to expressly recognize the fundamental, individual right to keep and to bear arms and the individual right of personal self-defense... and thus risks infringing on freedoms protected by the Second Amendment."
Unfortunately, once a treaty has been signed, it normally remains available for the Senate to ratify in perpetuity, unless a later president withdraws from it. This means that American gun owners must remain vigilant in ensuring this treaty is never ratified. The NRA will continue to keep gun owners up to date on any movement toward ratification, and will work with our allies in the Senate to ensure the treaty remains unratified
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Second Letter from Senator John Stockton
The battle for the right to keep and bear arms in America continues to heat up. President Obama and Sen. Harry Reid are not happy that they didn't pass any gun control yet this year, but they have promised that they'll be back for more.
My name is Steve Stockman, Representative of Texas' 36th Congressional District.
I hope you realize that the only reason Obama has not been able to ban guns is because of you. Your activism — along with millions of concerned gun owners — is what's standing in the way of gun bans, a ban on magazines, the end of gun shows, and much more.
Please understand, the President feels that he MUST pass some form of gun control, because he knows if he doesn't he'll be viewed as weakened when he tries to pass the rest of his socialist agenda.
Senate Majority Leader Reid is meeting right now with wobbly Senators who he thinks he can win over. That's why it's so important to keep up the pressure!
I also want to say thank you for all of your hard work so far, and I can think of no better way to do that than to give away, completely FREE, the firearm that Obama most wants to ban — the Bushmaster AR-15 rifle.
You read that right. By clicking the link below, you can register to win a FREE rifle that is almost impossible to find at a gun store!Warm regards,
Steve Stockman
Member of CongressPS: Obama and the gun grabbers in Congress are relentless in their attack on the 2nd Amendment. Please continue your activism in defense of liberty, and don't forget to register to win a FREE Bushmaster AR-15.
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A Letter from Senator John Stockton
Dear patriot,
The United Nations’ so-called “Arms Trade Treaty” makes me sick!
I’m Congressman Steve Stockman, and this UN Gun Grab is the biggest threat to gun owners in decades.
It requires an international license to own a gun.
It requires registration of all guns worldwide.
It bans all transfers of semi-automatic firearms
It even requires the confiscation and destruction of any gun not approved by the UN.
Your gun.
Right now anti-gun and global lobbyists are infesting the halls of the Capitol, twisting arms and offering favors in exchange for the U.S. ratifying this gun-grabbing atrocity.
Obama is 100% on board and using every corrupt tool in his arsenal to approve it.
When international forces threaten American sovereignty and freedom, real Americans fight back!
I know you’re a real American, fighting for the rights of every man.
I hope you will join me.
And we must fight the UN Gun Ban without fear and without mercy.
Courage is the thing that keeps us free.
Working with my friend Senator Rand Paul I’ve introduced legislation to overturn Obama’s anti-gun Executive Orders. (HR 410)
I’ve also introduced legislation to:
>> Repeal deadly, failed, “Gun Free School Zones.” (HR 35)
>> Protect veterans from having their guns confiscated simply because they talked to a counselor about their wartime experiences. (HR 577)
But this UN Gun Grab is an entirely different threat.
That’s why I introduced HR 575, The Second Amendment Protection Act, which states Congress must not approve any treaty that threatens the Second Amendment.
But it won’t pass unless Americans rise up and demand it.
That means putting together an aggressive grassroots campaign to alert patriots and blow the whistle on the UN Gun Grab.
You’d be stunned how many patriots have no idea this is happening.
Help me raise a grassroots army and stop the UN Gun Grab.
This UN Gun Grab is much worse than anything Clinton ever did.
I will fight it as hard as I can.
But I need you with me.
My Second Amendment Protection Act can stop the UN Gun Grab.
With courage and a unified patriot front, we can do this.
Warmest wishes,
CONGRESSMAN STEVE STOCKMAN
Constitutional Republican from Texas
P.S. The United Nations’ so-called “Arms Trade Treaty” is an atrocity!
That’s why I introduced HR 575, The Second Amendment Protection Act, which states Congress must not approve any treaty that threatens the Second Amendment.
But it won’t pass unless Americans rise up and demand it.
Help me alert patriots across the Republic and stuff this down Obama’s throat! I just need you to go here and chip in $10 or more to help me get it done
NRA News: watch all the videos to hear what they have to say
Saturday, May 18, 2013
Reinstated
As you all know the U.S. Secrete Service temporarily shut us down. Our lawyers advised them that our site is protected under the first amendment. How ever since Obama has been in the oval office our constitutional rights are being violated. Under the articles of the US Constitution We the people can over throw a tyranny government. Our legal staff advised them that they have no legal leg to stand on because we quote the constitution and that ass in the white house thinks he is Hitler. Well our government was given a big fuck you by our legal staff and had any and evidence suppressed. I will say this the sarge will never be quiet by these sheep loving liberal bastards.
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Friday, May 10, 2013
SB 1002 needs to be stopped
an anti-gun amendment was offered to the Illinois Senate, Senate Bill 1002, turning this bill into another vehicle for gun control. Sponsored by state Senator Antonio Munoz (D-1), this amendment seeks to ban the possession, purchase, manufacture, sale or delivery of all magazines in Illinois that can hold more than ten rounds of ammunition or that can be readily converted to do this. Further, Il...linois residents would have ninety days to surrender or dispose of any of these magazines they already possess.
No, although these have been offered as justification for its existence. Its sole purpose is to secure an individual's right for self-defense against government. "It" is the Second Amendment.
In order to understand the Second Amendment's constitutional purpose, one first must recognize the distinction between the "Constitution" and "Bill of Rights". The Constitution establishes a government of limited powers; thus it deals exclusively with power. Conversely, the Bill of Rights (Amendments 1 through 10) was adopted to secure individual rights against government's intrusion; thus it deals exclusively with individual rights.
In order to understand the Second Amendment's constitutional purpose, one first must recognize the distinction between the "Constitution" and "Bill of Rights". The Constitution establishes a government of limited powers; thus it deals exclusively with power. Conversely, the Bill of Rights (Amendments 1 through 10) was adopted to secure individual rights against government's intrusion; thus it deals exclusively with individual rights.
Declaration of Independents
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive o...f these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world
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