ORIGINAL: Pawildman
Asfar as my gun rights go, I'm just downright scared about the intentions of our liberal-minded legislators in this country, let alone what some whacko foreign government thinks they are going to tell us what we can and cannot do along these lines. "MY cold,dead fingers................"
This just in, from the national Shootiong Sports Foundation...............
U.N. Small Arms Conference Fails
U.S. STANDS FIRM, REJECTS FUTURE MEETINGS . . . Over the past five years, the world has spent well over $100 million on numerous United Nations Small Arms and Light Weapons Programme of Action-related meetings. Though some view these international meetings as a route toward backdoor global gun control, no one can argue there has been little bang for the buck. The United States clearly said enough is enough, and objected to wasting hundreds of millions more dollars on an ongoing bureaucratic debate.
The U.N. Small Arms Review Conference concluded Friday with nations failing to agree, a major setback for anti-gun organizations and welcome news for supporters of the Second Amendment. The U.S. rejected any future meetings and clearly showed that, while it supports worthwhile efforts at curbing illicit small arms trade, it will not support ineffective regulations negatively affecting its freedoms. "There are tragedies around the world on scales that demand international action," said Rick Patterson, managing director of the Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers Institute (SAAMI), which represented the firearms industry at the conference. "Had the conference maintained a focus on fully automatic military weapons they may have been able to implement an effective global strategy. Issues related to sporting firearms and private ownership are too complex for global strategies." Read news reports about the conference from the Associated Press and Canadian press as well as scholar and author John R. Lott Jr. Daily roundups from the conference are also available from the U.N.