Hillary Clinton And The UN Arms Trade Treaty RumorIt should also be noted that it doesn't matter if the Secretary of State, US Ambassador to UN, or even the President of the United States "signs" a treaty, it isn't a legal document until the US Senate ratifies it.
Friday, May 28, 2010
We continue to receive numerous inquiries regarding UN international treaties, and their impact on our Second Amendment rights. The latest rumor making its way around the Internet claims that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton actually signed a UN small arms treaty.
Contrary to this widely circulated e-mail, Hillary Clinton has not signed any small arms treaty. She could not have done so, in fact, because no such treaty has yet been negotiated.
As we noted in an update from last November, the UN Arms Trade Treaty will be drafted between now and 2012, and even if signed, would not take effect in the U.S. until it was ratified by the Senate.
Please rest assured that, as we said in November, NRA will be actively involved in this process and will oppose any treaty that would attempt to impose limits on our Second Amendment rights. In the meantime, we urge gun owners to follow this issue in NRA's magazines and NRA-ILA's Grassroots Alerts. We also urge gun owners not to circulate misinformation on this issue.
Note that the first item noted in my previous post did not say "UN Small Arms treaty is signed", it said "His Imperial Majesty Wants To Barter Away the Bill of Rights."
Well, sort of.
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