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OAS treaty threatens Second Amendment
April 17, 2009 | Tagged anti-Second Amendment, Foreign Influence | 1 Comment
I believe that The Organization of American States(OAS) treaty, the Inter-American Convention Against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Ammunition, Explosives, and other related materials, known as CIFTA, poses a real danger to the rights of American Citizens recognized by the Second Amendment. CIFTA has a number of provisions that could be interpreted by a gun-hostile Obama Administration to allow them to impose crippling restrictions on reloaders and gun owners.
As I read CIFTA, the U.S. Government would be pressured to outlaw ammunition reloading without a license. A license could be required for the manufacture of grips, slings, sights, bipods, and recoil pads, which could be classified as “related materials,” which may be attached to a gun.
Under CIFTA, I believe the government, under the guise of “ensuring security” of affected items “in transit,” could set up highway inspection checkpoints and require permits for any movement of guns, ammunition or components, and grips, slings, sights, bipods and recoil pads. Gun registration would be a real possibility with regard to the convention objective of “ensuring security.”
A good discussion of CIFTA can be found here. There are news reports that the NRA “participated” in the OAS discussions of CIFTA. The NRA denies participation in development of the treaty, but probably had some influence on U.S. negotiators.
Please contact your U.S. Senators and urge them to vigorously oppose ratification of this treaty. With Justice Ginsberg and other Liberals talking about the desirability of having international laws and norms affect American policy, we don’t need this sort of foreign influence in our domestic discussions of our natural rights to armed self-defense against crime, tyranny, and genocide.
Def Mech
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this is a great article, with a lot of great info.. thanks for the link..