Thursday, April 16, 2009

Inter-American Convention Against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Ammunition, Explosives, and Other Related Materials...”

...better known as CIFTA was signed by that paragon of pro-gun sentiment Bill Clinton but never ratified by the Senate. Now President Obama, with the sure and certain knowledge that he can't get any gun control legislation through the Congress is pushing for CIFTA's ratification. Obama doesn't have the courage for a straight on fight. He is a sneak and pushes to eradicate our second amendment rights from the flank. It's gun control from the edges. This bud needs to be nipped right fracking now.

Apparently much of what CIFTA would require in already in effect here in the US but it requires the implementation of more. There are provisions that require licensing. There are others that could be interpreted as prohibiting reloading ammunition. You build guns at home? No more. If the Congress failed to implement the required provisions there are other provisions that would allow President Obama to implement them by fiat. That scares me enough but putting our rights under the authority of any government outside our own is utterly unacceptable. So we gotta stop this now. Write your Senators. If your's are bought and sold by the gun haters write someone else's. Hell it can't hurt. It will take 2/3s of the Senate to ratify this treaty. That's 67 Senators. It's failed before. We can kill it again. Some Senators might tell you how innocuous this treaty is and how it's just symbolic. Tell them bullshit and that they will be held accountable for their votes. Tell 'em hell no and tell 'em now.
UPDATE: I sent letters to my Senators asking them to oppose this trash. What the hell are you waiting for?

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