Saturday, June 5, 2010

Hillary Clinton and the United Nations ain't got our guns -- yet

In case you've seen the emails and other "news" items circulating on the Internet that Hillary Clinton and the United Nations are going to take all our guns away, here's the latest from the NRA-ILA.
We continue to receive numerous inquiries regarding UN international treaties, and their impact on our Second Amendment rights.  The latest rumor making its way around the Internet claims that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton actually signed a UN small arms treaty.
Contrary to this widely circulated e-mail, Hillary Clinton has not signed any small arms treaty.  She could not have done so, in fact, because no such treaty has yet been negotiated. 
As we noted in an update from last November, the UN Arms Trade Treaty will be drafted between now and 2012, and even if signed, would not take effect in the U.S. until it was ratified by the Senate. 
Please rest assured that, as we said in November, NRA will be actively involved in this process and will oppose any treaty that would attempt to impose limits on our Second Amendment rights.  In the meantime, we urge gun owners to follow this issue in NRA's magazines and NRA-ILA's Grassroots Alerts.  We also urge gun owners not to circulate misinformation on this issue.
As always, don't believe everything you hear, especially via the Internet, and not all of what you see. This is the age of Photoshop.

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