NRA Fundraises On False Claims About U.N. Arms Trade Treaty

[Lakhota]

The National Rifle Association is stoking the misguided fears of its members that the United Nations is coming to steal their guns through an international arms treaty in an attempt to raise funds needed to help block the treaty in the Senate.

In an email sent out on Wednesday to its supporters, the NRA ominously warned about the coming collusion between the United Nations and President Obama in the name of “trampling our Second Amendment freedoms.” The vehicle for this complete destruction of the Constitution? The recently passed United Nations Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), which opens for signature on June 3. Despite the fact that only North Korea, Syria, and Iran voted against the treaty, the right-wing in the United States has long opposed what it sees as a chance for the government to legally steal Americans’ handguns.

The NRA email went to great lengths to solidify this fear in the minds of its supporters, repeatedly referring to the ATT as the “global gun ban treaty,” or variations thereof. “We need to send a clear message to every Senator that they have only two choices: Side with us and stop the U.N. gun ban treaty … or start looking for a new job at election time,” the message tells its readers. Despite the dark tidings, the ATT actually doesn’t affect the Second Amendment, something that even Texas’ extremely conservative attorney general begrudgingly admitted.

Instead, the treaty seeks to limit the sale of arms — including attack helicopters, tanks, and other larger arms, as well as small arms and ammunition for these weapons — to regimes that use them to violate human rights. To achieve this, the treaty requires states set up a system for tracking exports of arms to other countries and reporting those statistics to the United Nations annually. The U.S. government already tracks the sale of weapons overseas, meaning very little will change in practice for American citizens.

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I see nothing scary about this treaty. It makes sense - and doesn't violate the 2nd Amendment.

 

[OKTexas]

Considering the lies your dear leader told to raise cash you should have no problems with the methods the NRA is using or any one else. Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

 

[tyroneweaver]

you sure are worried about what the nra does, aren't ya?

 

[Katzndogz]

If you don't like what the NRA does, don't vote for them.

 

[Missourian]

One provision requires participating countries to keep records of arms exports and imports, including the quantity, value, model/type, and “end users, as appropriate” for at least 10 years.

Gun record-keeping is a thorny issue in the U.S., where similar questions have stalled a debate over expanding background checks to include all private gun sales.

Second Amendment supporters worry that such records eventually will pave the way for a national firearms registry, currently prohibited by federal law.

Read more: Gun rights advocates fear U.N. treaty will lead to U.S. registry - Washington Times
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Your source is ThinkProgress...why do you delete that from the link?


http://thinkprogress.org/security/2013/05/31/2081511/nra-att-lies/?mobile=nc

Nevermind...I know why.

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[Dot Com]

the nra is a cash cow to take advantage of gullible clingers.

 

[jknowgood]

Tell me lakota, do you piss yourself when you see a toy gun?

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

The NRA email went to great lengths to solidify this fear in the minds of its supporters, repeatedly referring to the ATT as the “global gun ban treaty,” or variations thereof. “We need to send a clear message to every Senator that they have only two choices: Side with us and stop the U.N. gun ban treaty … or start looking for a new job at election time,” the message tells its readers.

This is one of the more reprehensible lies from the right.

 

[OriginalShroom]

Using Think Progress as a source is like using my grandmother's Monkey Ward....

Full of shit.

And if you are old enough to understand that referance..... LOL

 

[Missourian]

The NRA email went to great lengths to solidify this fear in the minds of its supporters, repeatedly referring to the ATT as the “global gun ban treaty,” or variations thereof. “We need to send a clear message to every Senator that they have only two choices: Side with us and stop the U.N. gun ban treaty … or start looking for a new job at election time,” the message tells its readers.

This is one of the more reprehensible lies from the right.

Stop being so gullible Clayton. ThinkProgress is full of crap.


You'll notice the article links to damn near every leftwing crapfest on the internet...but never links to the mailer text that they are quoting.

Use your head and ask the obvious question...why not?

Because they are absolute shitologists, the dirty diaper of leftist propaganda.

ThinkForYourself instead.

 

[Mad Scientist]

Check out all faux outrage here!

Panetta said that the UN Authority trumps Congress and you didn't get upset. Why are you upset about a UN Treaty that trumps the Constitution?

"Navy. A Global Force for Good".

Thank goodness Americans won't ask what that "Good" is and where it comes from.