October 28, 2011, 06:08 AM
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Join Date: November 20, 2007
Location: South Western OK
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Frankly, I think you are way too optimistic about what this treaty will do. I don't expect the U. S. to ratify the treaty; but I'll bet you money right now that the final result would have restricted gun ownership here if implemented. It may not restrict it as much in the countries that do adopt it, since many of them are already much more restrictive.
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A vocal few have bought into the conspiracy hype that the dastardly blue hats are out to take our guns away. Some refuse to believe that a UN treaty does not trump the US Constitution.
http://74.6.117.48/search/srpcache?e...6RM7Rhorg7zQ--
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Acknowledging also the right of States to regulate internal transfers of arms and national ownership, including through national constitutional protections on private ownership, exclusively within their territory,
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Last edited by thallub; October 28, 2011 at 06:39 AM.
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