Hope springs eternal among gun-grabbing interests that the Obama administration somehow will get the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty through the Senate.
At the Second Conference of State Parties to the Arms Trade Treaty in August, the U.S. representative said America still wants to ratify the accord, signed by Secretary of State John Kerry in 2013, The Daily Signal reports. But the treaty, which critics say could provide the rationalization for a national gun registry, has met stiff opposition. AfterMr. Kerry signed it, 50 senators penned a letter to President Obama opposing the pact as being “vague and easily politicized.”
Since then nothing has changed.
Oh, Mexico’s secretary of foreign affairs told the U.N. gathering that “more than 70 percent” of the guns used to commit crimes in Mexico are tied to U.S. buyers or distributors. Even if so, that doesn’t warrant the treaty’s ratification when there are existing U.S. laws to address that specific complaint.
Namely, the Gun Control Act of 1968 along with the Arms Export Control Act of 1976 give the executive branch control over the shipment of weapons in and out of the U.S., notes Ted Bromund, a senior research fellow with The Heritage Foundation.
The U.N. Arms Trade Treaty remains today what it was three years ago — a nonstarter. And eventually, as Mr. Bromund points out, “The gun controllers will lose interest and find another toy.”
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