Obama Positioning For Backdoor Gun Control

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Obama Positioning For Backdoor Gun Control

By Chuck Baldwin

April 24, 2009

This column is archived at

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On his recent trip to Central America , President Barack Obama did more than

cozy up to Marxist dictators; he also signed onto an international treaty

that could, in effect, be used as backdoor gun control. It appears that

Obama wants to use international treaties to do what congressional

legislation is not able to do: further restrict the right of the American

people to keep and bear arms.

 

Obama is using the oft-disproved contention that "90% of the guns recovered

in Mexico come from the United States " (it is more like 17%) as the stated

basis of his support for the international treaty he is promoting. The treaty

is formally known as the Inter-American Convention Against the Illicit

Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Ammunition, Explosives and

Other Related Materials(CIFTA) treaty. The Bill Clinton administration signed

the treaty back in 1997, but the U.S. Senate has never ratified the treaty.

Obama intends to change that.

 

To date, 33 nations in the western hemisphere have signed the treaty. The

U.S. is one of four nations that have yet to ratify it. According to one

senior Obama administration official, passing the treaty is a "high

priority" for the President.

 

If ratified, the treaty would require the United States to adopt "strict

licensing requirements, mark firearms when they are made and imported to

make them easier to trace, and establish a process for sharing information

between national law enforcement agencies investigating [gun] smuggling."

 

Senator John Kerry, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee promises to

"work for its [the CIFTA treaty's] approval by the Senate."

 

Should the Senate ratify CIFTA, Americans who reload ammunition would be

required to get a license from the government, and factory guns and

ammunition would be priced almost out of existence due to governmental

requirements to "mark" each one manufactured. Even the simple act of adding

an after-market piece of equipment to a firearm, such as a scope or bipod,

or reassembling a gun after cleaning it could fall into the category of

"illicit manufacturing" of firearms and require government license and

oversight.

 

In addition, CIFTA would authorize the U.S. federal government (and open the

door to international entities) to supervise and regulate virtually the

entire American firearms industry. Making matters worse is the fact that, as

a treaty, this Act does not have to be passed by both houses of Congress,

nor is it subject to judicial oversight. All Obama needs to do in order to

enact this unconstitutional and egregious form of gun control is convince a

Democratic-controll ed Senate to pass it.

 

Obviously, the United Nations, from its very inception, has been one of the

world's most ardent gun control proponents. As anyone who has ever driven by

the U.N. building in New York City knows, a huge statue of an American-made

revolver with its barrel twisted in the shape of a pretzel greets every

visitor. The CIFTA treaty is one of the U.N.'s pet projects in order to

achieve this long-held ambition.

 

Of course, Obama is a longtime liberal radical when it comes to the Second

Amendment. As a senator, he voted against the Second Amendment at every

opportunity. He has never seen a piece of gun control legislation that he

did not support. And as I have said before in this column, gun control is

high on the list of priorities for the newly elected President Barack Obama.

 

For Obama to intimate that 90% of the firearms used by Mexican drug cartels

come from the United States reveals either a truly dishonest and deceptive

mind or a totally misinformed and naïve one. Many studies have thoroughly

debunked the 90% myth, including one by William La Jeunesse and Maxim Lott

in a recent Fox News report. According to these researchers, the real number

is closer to 17%.

 

According to La Jeunesse and Lott, Mexican drug cartels, which control

billions of dollars, obtain the overwhelming majority of their guns from the

Black Market, Russian crime syndicates, South America , China , Guatemala , and

even from the Mexican army.

 

In fact, Mexico is a virtual arms bazaar: AK-47s from China ; fragmentation

grenades from South Korea ; shoulder-fired rocket launchers from Spain ,

Israel and former Soviet bloc dealers; assault weapons from China ; and

explosives from Korea --just to name a few sources.

 

In addition, according to Mexican Congressman Robert Badillo, more than

150,000 Mexican soldiers have deserted in just the last six years. The vast

majority of them took their weapons with them, including the standard issue

M-16 assault rifle made in Belgium .

 

And please do not forget that corruption within the Mexican government is

rampant. Many news sources have covered stories of how drug cartels bribe

Mexican officials. An article in the New York Times last year reported, "One

of Mexico 's most notorious drug cartels made huge cash payments to officials

in the Mexican attorney general's office in exchange for confidential

information on anti-drug operations . . . the cartel might have had an

informant inside the American embassy."

 

The Mexican drug cartels control a multi-billion dollar enterprise that has

more than enough resources to obtain planeloads of weapons from all over the

world. For Obama to assert that 90% of the Mexican drug cartels' firearms

come from the United States is a bald-faced lie! Again, either Obama is

stupid and naïve or he is deliberately lying to the American people in order

to "sell" the CIFTA treaty to the U.S. Senate. I think we all know that Mr.

Obama is anything but stupid and naïve.

 

Read more about the CIFTA treaty at

 

http://gunowners. org/a042109. htm

 

In addition to the CIFTA treaty, liberal Chicago Democrat Congressman Bobby

Rush has introduced H.R. 45 in the House of Representatives. This bill is

anything but subtle. It is an in-your-face gun control bill that would make

"Mr. Gun Control," the late Senator Howard Metzenbaum, shout Hallelujah.

 

H.R. 45 would require a federal license for all handguns and semiautomatics,

including the ones you already possess. It would require handgun and

semi-auto owners to be thumbprinted at a police station and sign a

certificate that the gun will not be kept in a place where it could be used

for the defense of the gun owner's family.

 

Read more about H.R. 45 at

 

http://gunowners. org/hr45ana. htm

 

In all likelihood, H.R. 45 is probably a long shot at passing both houses of

Congress, albeit gun owners should never take any proposed gun control bill

for granted. The CIFTA treaty, however, is much more dangerous due to its

subtlety and subterfuge, the less cumbersome process of passage, and the

fact that it makes U.S. gun owners subject to international gun control

laws.

 

All in all, freedom in America is on the Obama White House chopping block.

And this much is certain: if the American people do not retain the right to

keep and bear arms, every other freedom we hold dear will quickly disappear

as well. Moreover, if we do retain the right to keep and bear arms, it will

only be because enough of us--and our state and federal legislators- -resist

the tyrannical gun control machinations of Barack Obama. And that means

defeating the CIFTA treaty and H.R. 45.

 

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Dear (Senator or Congressman or Pres. Obama),

 

The second amendment to keep and bear arms is our Constitutional RIGHT. Do not subvert it by passing or encouraging the passing of HR 45 or by ratifying the treaty formally known as the Inter-American Convention Against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Ammunition, Explosives and Other Related Materials(CIFTA) treaty, which was signed by Bill Clinton in 1997 but never, thank God, ratified by the senate. They knew better. They realized citizens would be outraged.

DO NOT ratify this treaty, I beg you. PLEASE remember we operate under a Constitution that permits and encourages the rights of gun owners to keep and bear arms to PROTECT their family. Criminals have access to guns whenever they want them. It isn’t the home gun owner that is the problem. HR 45 flies in the face of that Amendment and CIFTA would so restrict gun ownership that even to clean a gun or make your own ammo would be under regulation by the government. This is outrageous.

 

“The Constitution of government, once changed from freedom, can never be restored. Liberty once lost is lost forever.†John Adams.

 

Do not subvert our constitution. Please protect our right to keep and bear arms.

 

Sincerely,