International & United Nations Gun Control
NRA has been engaged at the United Nations and elsewhere internationally in response to overreaching small arms initiatives for two decades. During this time, we have been actively opposing transnational efforts that would limit Americans’ Second Amendment freedoms. NRA has been a recognized Non-Governmental Organization at the United Nations since 1996. Our status as an NGO allows us to closely monitor the internal UN debate over firearm issues and report back to our members.
The most pressing international threat to U.S. gun owners is the UN Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). Among its most egregious provisions, the treaty encourages national recordkeeping requirements for “end users” of covered arms (including firearms), and suggests that national governments share such records. Further, the ATT compels countries to make arms import and export decisions based upon a trading partner’s willingness to abide by the treaty’s requirements, which could isolate the United States from legitimate trade in arms or force it to adopt restrictions detrimental to Second Amendment rights. During the drafting phase, NRA vigorously advocated for civilian firearm ownership be removed from the treaty’s scope. Those recommendations were ignored, meaning U.S. firearms policy could become the rest of the world’s business and subject to its approval, on pain of trade restrictions if it doesn’t meet “international norms.”
Secretary of State John Kerry signed the ATT on behalf of the U.S. on September 25, 2013. NRA continues to work with its Senate allies to prevent ratification or implementation of the treaty in the U.S.
Friday, May 29, 2015
Following recent announcements made by South African Airways and Emirates' cargo divisions to establish an embargo on select ...
Friday, May 29, 2015
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Friday, May 22, 2015
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The Office of U.S. Representative Mike Kelly
Monday, May 18, 2015
Today the House of Representatives passed H.R. 1735, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2016, ...
Friday, April 24, 2015
This week, the NRA claimed victory for beating back an Obama administration policy that would have essentially stopped ...
Thursday, April 23, 2015
The National Rifle Association today claimed victory for beating back an Obama administration policy that would have essentially ...
Friday, April 17, 2015
For weeks, we have been reporting on how a long-dormant State Department rule change is suddenly being enforced to the ...
The U.S. House of Representatives
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
U.S. Representative Mike Kelly (R-PA) issued the following statement today regarding four letters he authored and submitted to ...
Friday, March 6, 2015
On Monday, a group of 12 freshman Senators expressed their opposition to ratification of the United Nations Arms ...
Friday, February 20, 2015
Before anyone gets the wrong idea, the editors of the Washington Post still support background checks on private ...