[url]www.un.org/Depts/dda/CAB/smallarms/facts.htm[/url]

SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT

UN CONFERENCE ON THE ILLICIT TRADE IN SMALL ARMS AND LIGHT WEAPONS
in All Its Aspects, New York, 9-20 July 2001

The focus of the United Nations Conference is on illicit trade in small arms, not the legal trade, manufacture or ownership of weapons.

Assault rifles and other small arms and light weapons have become the weapons of choice in many internal conflicts waged around the world. They are weapons manufactured to military specifications for use as lethal instruments of war. These weapons often end up in the possession of organized crime syndicates, drugs traffickers, and warlords who promote strife for personal gain. Because these weapons are light and easy to use, they are put in the hands of 300,000 child soldiers.
The Conference is about finding ways to curb and eliminate illicit trafficking in such weapons. The Conference is not about outlawing the legal manufacture or trade of these weapons, nor their legal, private ownership.


[url]www.unog.ch/UNIDIR/discus-1.htm[/url]
Removing military weapons from civilian hands

A draft discussion paper circulated for comment

Christophe Carle and Patricia Lewis
UNIDIR Geneva August 2000

Such weapons distort societies, they make it increasingly difficult for a society to rebuild itself following a period of bloody conflict, [b]they make it harder for the State to regain the legitimate monopoly of force[/b], they enhance the capabilities of criminals, thus compromising the effectiveness of police forces and [b]encouraging law-abiding civilians to arm themselves for protection[/b], they lower the threshold for violence and [b]they are very easy for children to obtain and use[/b].

Give me money.

Not locked yet!

[b]The Conference is about finding ways to curb and eliminate illicit trafficking in such weapons. The Conference is not about outlawing the legal manufacture or trade of these weapons, nor their legal, private ownership.[/b]

Yea they are. this is about global dissarmament,
period. "GUNS DO NOT BELONG IN THE HANDS OF CITIZENS". so they think. BTW, any guns adopted
by the military are made to military specs. look
at the M24, are they going to outlaw all rem700's?

Yea , Yea .... same crap Hitler and all other
totalitarians and human slave owners spout to
convince good , but naive , citizens to give up
their freedoms .

dP

hungh

the UN has its priorities all fuc%ed up. i dont think they really know what they are doing, literally.

"they enhance the capabilities of criminals, thus compromising the effectiveness of police forces and [b]encouraging law-abiding civilians to arm themselves for protection,"

there, they just said that they want a helpless society. the UN thinks civilians have no right to defend themselves.

Ya'll need to give the UN a break.  They would be able to do so much more if we would just pay them our back dues.  They are sort of like FEMA, the FBI's HRT, etc...ya know...here to HELP us!  What is wrong with you people?!?!?

"The arms [b][i]permitted[/b][/i] (emphasis added) for civilian use should be subject to controls at all points in the chain, from production and/or acquisition up to the time they are sold to an individual. From then on they should remain subject to monitoring and control by the United Nations controlling body.”
--1993 United Nations Disarmament Commission Working Paper

Can there be any doubt?

FMCDH
Semper Fidelis
Jarhead out.

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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and thus clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
--H.L. Mencken

I hope Boland is the first in line to turn his guns in to the UN that he loves so much.

Peacekeepers will get to keep their guns.

HUH?  What exactly does that mean?

Ok I'm a peacekeeper. Sign me up for a GE minigun.[BD]

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