{"id":15743,"date":"2012-09-04T19:24:42","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T23:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=15743"},"modified":"2012-09-04T19:24:42","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T23:24:42","slug":"with-att-dead-un-starts-new-round-of-gun-control-negotiations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/15743\/with-att-dead-un-starts-new-round-of-gun-control-negotiations\/","title":{"rendered":"With ATT Dead, UN Starts New Round of Gun Control Negotiations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even though the United Nations\u2019 <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/42-constitution-and-legal\/1505-real-danger-of-the-uns-arms-trade-treaty-is-in-the-interpretation-not-the-text-\" target=\"_blank\">Arms Trade Treaty negotiations<\/a> broke down in July, gun control advocates are already promoting a new vehicle to infringe on civilian ownership of firearms.<\/p>\n<p>The new document being discussed at U.N. headquarters is called a \u201cProgramme of Action to Combat, and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects\u201d (or PoA for short).<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2012\/09\/04\/u-s-should-quit-u-n-s-programme-of-action\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ted Bromund<\/a> of the Heritage Foundation reports, so far the PoA isn\u2019t doing much better than the ATT:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The normal approach is to try to walk before you run. At the U.N., though, the response to the PoA\u2019s inability to walk is to recommend running. IANSA wants the PoA to expand to cover ammunition. Parker wants a PoA that would provide a broader framework for the ATT. And McLay believes it should consider further \u201cnormative development\u201d\u2014i.e., in future years it should discuss \u201cthe issues of civilian possession.\u201d Indeed, on Tuesday at the review conference, IANSA acknowledged that the PoA has served as the basis for \u201cgun control\u201d in many nations and encouraged others to follow along.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>IANSA stands for The International Action Network on Small Arms, and as Bromund notes, it is \u201cthe leading small-arms-control NGO\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For some reason, the United States is still involved in negotiations with groups like IANSA.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not often that regulators are so transparent about their ultimate goals.\u00a0 With the IANSA on record as using the PoA as a basis for gun control, it\u2019s past time for conservatives in Congress to demand that the U.S. pull out of negotiations immediately.\u00a0 Safeguarding the Second Amendment requires nothing less.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though the United Nations\u2019 Arms Trade Treaty negotiations broke down in July, gun control advocates are already promoting a new vehicle to infringe on civilian ownership of firearms. The new document being discussed at U.N. headquarters is called a \u201cProgramme of Action to Combat, and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3720,3160,300,220,3708,169],"class_list":["post-15743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-control","tag-gun","tag-regulation","tag-second-amendment","tag-ted-bromund","tag-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15743"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15749,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15743\/revisions\/15749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}