No treaty, UN or otherwise, trumps the Constitution. On the other hand, we have 3-4 Justices on the highest court in the land, and numerous judges in lower courts, who don't think that an individual Second Amendment right exists - and the outlines of that right in case law are still very, very narrow. That is the position of last hope, not the first line of defense.
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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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And as I have already explained 3 or 4 times now, that is a 2009 resolution from a handful of countries proposing what they think should be in the treaty. It isn't a guarantee and there is enough vagueness in that statement to allow significant gun restrictions.