teedubbya wrote:Has anyone actually read the treaty or is it better to rely on the spin from either side?
I'm amazed at how often folks go on what others tell them something means rather than reading it them selves and using their own noggin.
The NRA has it's own political agenda and will misrepresent things to leverage that agenda as will the anti gun crowd. The feed off each other.
As for any source advocating ghost guns you miss the point if you think not copying that part or editing if out now is the issue. The point is any source advocating that in the first place lacks credibility whether you copy or edit it out or not.
Go read the treaty and tell us what it says.
A "ghost gun" is one which contains no serial number. Since home manufacturing of a firearm without a serial number is COMPLETELY legal, what credibility is that source lacking?
As far as the treaty is concerned, I skimmed through it reading and re-reading certain parts. For the most part this is a treaty aimed at control the international trade in arms. I seriously doubt the UN's endgame is to add a layer of gun control in the US.
But, it would without a doubt lead to a national registry.There are provisions in the treaty which would force creation of some sort of national database, though limited only to arms covered by the treaty, but would more likely than not be argued that it would be expanded to include all lawfully owned firearms since in theory they could all be exported. In a defacto way it would subject lawful gun owners to being registered in a UN database. It also provides for those lawful gun owners information to be shared with all treaty signees.
Article 2, 1. (h) Small arms and light weapons
Article 5, 2. Each State Party shall establish and maintain a national control system,
including a national control list, in order to implement the provisions of this Treaty.
Article 5, 4. Each State Party, pursuant to its national laws, shall provide its national
control list to the Secretariat, which shall make it available to other States Parties.
States Parties are encouraged to make their control lists publicly available.
Article 5, 5. Each State Party shall take measures necessary to implement the provisions of
this Treaty and shall designate competent national authorities in order to have an effective and transparent national control system regulating the transfer of conventional arms covered under Article 2 (1) and of items covered under Article 3 and Article 4.
For those interested, here is a link to the treaty. Read it for yourself and see what you think.
https://unoda-web.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/English7.pdf