Chuck Baldwin: Obama Positioning for Backdoor Gun Control by circumventing the House of Representatives
By Chuck Baldwin
April 24, 2009
NewsWithViews.com
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" 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."
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I find this unlawful that he can basically circumvent the House and now with Specter's defection he could really go after the 2nd Amendment. I personally believe any treaty that violates the Constitution is illegal. Does anyone know the SCOTUS stances on treaties that contradict the Constitution?
Any type of gun control
Any type of gun control legislation or "back door" treaty/legislation, would be the tipping point in this day and age!!!! The American people are wound so tight right now it would not take much for things to errupt.They have to be smart enough to sense this, then again maybe they do sense it and are just so arrogant they think the American people would never rise up against them.I'm sure, in a not so distant future, we will see.
P.S. -Anyone try to buy any ammo lately?!?!?!?
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Congress has to ratify treaties
Unless he calls it an economic undestanding like the SPP stuff
Just the Senate
Only the Senate has to ratify treaties. The House is not part of the process at all. With Specter's defection that makes even more likely to happen.
That shouldn't be difficult....
..but before anyone looses their brains, the USSC has ruled several times that Treaties are not Law, unless leglislation is written and passed internally to co-inside with the treaty. The Constitution (cough, cough) is the Supreme Law of the land and can not be amended by treaty.