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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.

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Report: UK Gun Owner Loses Licenses Over Social Media Presence

News  

Monday, April 29, 2019

Report: UK Gun Owner Loses Licenses Over Social Media Presence

In 2016, UK shooter and popular YouTube gun channel personality Callum Long-Collins told the BBC, “Being British and ...

President Trump Withdraws U.S. from United Nations Arms Trade Treaty

News  

Monday, April 29, 2019

President Trump Withdraws U.S. from United Nations Arms Trade Treaty

During his speech to the 2019 NRA-ILA Leadership Forum, President Trump announced that he would “unsign” the United Nations Arms ...

USA Today  

Monday, April 29, 2019

Trump reverses U.S. course on Arms Trade Treaty during speech at NRA in Indianapolis

President Donald Trump said Friday that he would pull out of the Arms Trade Treaty, a global 2014 pact ...

Fox 59  

Monday, April 29, 2019

IN Focus: Trump, Pence headline NRA convention in Indianapolis

President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence visited Indianapolis Friday to address the National Rifle Association. Both ...

News  

Friday, April 26, 2019

NRA Applauds President Trump's Announcement to Un-sign the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty

Chris W. Cox, executive director of the National Rifle Association's Institute for Legislative Action, issued the following statement ...

U.S. Politicians Cheer New Zealand Gun Confiscation

News  

Friday, March 22, 2019

U.S. Politicians Cheer New Zealand Gun Confiscation

American gun owners have once again been reminded that the ultimate goal of U.S. gun control advocates is ...

What to Make of Crime in England?

News  

Friday, February 22, 2019

What to Make of Crime in England?

Sometimes it’s hard to understand what things are really like “across the pond.” Anti-gun extremists in America reflexively ...

Eurasia Review  

Thursday, January 17, 2019

How Gun Control Became An Instrument Of Tyranny In Venezuela – OpEd

Is Venezuela paying the price for adopting gun control? The shocking nature of Venezuela’s economic collapse has been ...

The Washington Times  

Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Bolsonaro loosens gun laws in Brazil, world murder capital

Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday signed a decree making it easier for many Brazilians to own firearms, the first ...

Wall Street Journal.com  

Monday, January 7, 2019

EUROPE Gun Use Surges in Europe, Where Firearms Are Rare

When hundreds of women were sexually assaulted on New Year’s Eve in several German cities three years ago, ...

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