UN Conventional Weapons Treaty

[Ed W]

The UN just passed an historic treaty meant to regulate the international arms trade.  Predictably, some senators are incensed that this treaty would somehow infringe on our Second Amendment rights. Fox News is somewhat coy about the number of senators who oppose this treaty, since the Senate has to approve it by a two-thirds majority.

I predict the tin-foil-hats-and-black-helicopters brigade will have the vapors over this one, and I suspect that the Second Amendment rights the (R) senators are protecting are those of arms manufacturers.  Corporations are people, too, my friends. 

Here's what it's meant to regulate:

The treaty will not control the domestic use of weapons in any country, but it will require countries that ratify it to establish national regulations to control the transfer of conventional arms and components and to regulate arms brokers.

It covers battle tanks, armored combat vehicles, large-caliber artillery systems, combat aircraft, attack helicopters, warships, missiles and missile launchers, and small arms and light weapons.



http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/04/02/senators-vow-to-oppose-un-arms-trade-treaty/