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, November 1, 2013
Thanks to your efforts, Senators Max Baucus (D-Mont.), Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.), Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.), ...
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
A clear majority of senators now oppose the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty.Because two thirds of senators would ...
Friday, October 18, 2013
In October of 2009, at the U.N. General Assembly, the Obama administration reversed the positions of the two ...
Friday, September 27, 2013
Shortly before he was reelected, President Obama proclaimed to the rapturous cheers and applause of his supporters, "We ...
Friday, September 27, 2013
This week, Secretary of State John F. Kerry signed the United Nations' Arms Trade Treaty on behalf of ...
Friday, September 27, 2013
According to the treaty, the international sale of weapons would be linked to the human rights records of ...
Thursday, September 26, 2013
But detractors to the treaty see a threat to individual American freedoms hanging in the balance as well."The ...
Thursday, September 26, 2013
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, no stranger to suing the federal government since President Barack Obama took office, ...
Thursday, September 26, 2013
Prime Minister Stephen Harper continues to engage the United Nations on his own terms, refusing to sign a ...
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday signed a controversial U.N. treaty on arms regulation, riling U.S. lawmakers ...