President Trump to Withdraw US Signature from UN Arms Trade Treaty
Official portrait of President Donald J. Trump, Friday, October 6, 2017. (Official White House photo by Shealah Craighead)
President Trump plans to remove the US’s signature from the UN Arms Trade Treaty. The last president caused our signature to end up on the treaty. However, the Senate was not able to ratify it. Plenty of resistance from the Republicans.
Next up, the President is requesting that the Senate end the ratification process. From Fox News:
“Under my administration we will never surrender American sovereignty to anyone, we will never allow foreign bureaucrats to trample on your Second Amendment freedom and that is why my administration will never ratify the U.N. trade treaty,” Trump told an audience at the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting in Indianapolis.
“I am officially announcing today that the United States will be revoking the effect of America’s signature from this badly misguided treaty, we’re taking our signature back,” he said.
Former President Barack Obama signed the treaty in 2013 and sent the treaty to the Senate for ratification. Onstage Friday, Trump signed a notice to the Senate asking it to stop the ratification process and return the treaty to the White House, “where I will dispose of it.”
The NRA argued that the call for a national record keeping, and for the sharing of this record internationally, would allow the world to “butt in” on an issue that should be decided by Americans.
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Loving all this WIN!
I don’t know. It will get tiresome at some point —- like maybe when the United States Code is the size it was back in 1919.
And the tax code the size it was in 1819.
Our cheer is USA USA USA USA USA USA
NOT un un un un un un
We need to get out of that cesspool too!
This will not please the gun grabbing fascists that are in the Democrat party.
Which is a nice bonus.
Bonus? Nah, it’s the intent!
Yeah, it’s a feature, not a bug.
“Where I will dispose of it.”
That’s the most eloquently succinct and appropriate prose I’ve ever come across regarding the UN.
Is there a First Canary? If so I know just the place for the treaty.
Even more so than Jean Claude van Damme in fiction:
Another one bites the dust. What’s next?
Next? Judge Dipshit declares Trump’s move unconstitutional. Because. Seriously. Reasons.
With the plethora of (D) candidates for POTUS coming out for gun control, Trump is laying the battle lines out clearly and precisely.
They are playing into his hands, IMHO.
He’ll show them the way to the cliff and let them march right off of it!
LOL…”I will dispose of it”…Triggering the Left even more…Hah…!!!
For all those countries crying about this, they have had since 2013 to rewrite this treaty to ensure it would not infringe on Americans’ Second Amendment rights. They have not done so which tells me it was a back door way to disarm us
So glad the Constitution is written such that while the President can negotiate these treaties, it takes both Houses of Congress to make them law.
Remember this is the same jackass that good the atf to reclassify a piece of plastic as a machine gun after a decade of it being legal. To turn owners into felons and to surrender property without pay.
Clown world. Keep praising him and keep losing the 2nd amendment.
Anothre\\er pitcher of WIN, OOOOOHHH, so sweet…
In spite of DJT’s misstep on bump stocks, this is a good thing.
Directing the DOJ to write a regulation banning bump stocks is a precedent that will be followed by the next Democrat president to do something similar.
I hear nothing any more about gun smiths who thread a barrel having to pay thousands to register with the international treaty in arms.
So we are moving in the right direction.