BREAKING: John Kerry Has Signed the UN Arms Treaty, What Does This Mean For You?

September 25 2013
by GSL Staff
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The treaty will not take effect until at least 50 member nations sign and ratify it.

Let’s make sure when discussing this to stay on topic. You can actually read the whole thing by clicking here to download a PDF.

UN soldiers will not be confiscating any guns under this treaty as it’s currently written. However, that doesn’t mean it isn’t a bad treaty. If ratified, this will certainly affect the price and availability of foreign made guns. That alone, in an already stretched market is bad enough.

The treaty also encourages member nations to track all gun sales, possibly leading to some sort of de facto gun registry depending on how such a requirement is implemented.

One particularly troubling part of the treaty is the process for amending it. Amending the treaty only requires a 3/4 majority vote of member nations. This means that US gun rights could be in the hands of other nations who take part in the treaty in the future, making the treaty a slippery slope.

Here is the amendment language straight from the Treaty:

3. The States Parties shall make every effort to achieve consensus on each
majority vote of the States Parties present and voting at the meeting of the
Conference of States Parties. For the purposes of this Article, States Parties present
and voting means States Parties present and casting an affirmative or negative vote.
The Depositary shall communicate any adopted amendment to all States Parties.

4. An amendment adopted in accordance with paragraph 3 shall enter into force
for each State Party that has deposited its instrument of acceptance for that
amendment, ninety days following the date of deposit with the Depositary of the
instruments of acceptance by a majority of the number of States Parties at the time
remaining State Party ninety days following the date of deposit of its instrument of
acceptance for that amendment

Personally I don’t want my future gun rights to be in the hands of a 3/4 majority of foreign nations.

Hopefully this has shed some light on the remaining process and the treaty itself.

Sources: Fox News

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