By Dave Workman
Editor-in-Chief
The National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action has warned U.S. gun owners that negotiations over the United Nations’ Global Framework for Through-Life Conventional Ammunition Management have concluded, and it is not good news.
According to the NRA-ILA announcement, which has been republished by the Buckeye Firearms Association and AmmoLand News, “the framework ostensibly focuses on improving the safety and security of ammunition under government control.”
“However,” the NRA-ILA noted, “as was proven last week, it is yet another tool of anti-firearm nations and governmentally funded NGO’s to erode the sovereign rights of nations — particularly the United States — under the banner of ‘international consensus,’ despite its inability to obtain it even at such a preliminary stage of the process.”
UN gun controls efforts dating back several years were a catalyst for the creation of the International Association for the Protection of Civilian Arms Rights (IAPCAR), an organization Second Amendment Foundation founder and Executive Vice President Alan Gottlieb and Julianne Versnel were directly involved in founding.
According to the NRA-ILA narrative, “at the 11th hour, while final negotiations were concluding on the meeting’s report, the Mexican delegation attempted to insert language calling for ammunition marking requirements that were simply “in line with” with the framework’s objectives, and not in strict adherence to its already agreed to language.
“Though superficially innocuous, this phrase was a deliberate attempt at a gateway to extend the framework’s influence to the civilian ammunition market,” the NRA-ILA report said. “In practice, that would mean international marking, tracing, and recordkeeping obligations imposed on not just every round of ammunition produced, but on every civilian shooter, hunter, and sportsman in America.”
According to the report, the U.S. delegation “worked tirelessly to ensure that the final report excluded this and similar overreaching provisions.”
Even Russia disassociated itself from the framework “both politically and legally,” NRA-ILA said.
“Another troubling aspect of the Framework’s early negotiations,” NRA-ILA reported, “has been the quiet but persistent influence of ideologically driven actors masquerading as neutral advisors to the Secretariat. It was impossible for anyone in the room to ignore the steady presence of familiar anti-firearm activists embedded within the Secretariat. These individuals, many of whom have built careers lobbying against civilian gun ownership, used their advisory role to steer discussions toward ever-expanding obligations into the civilian realm—despite the clear boundaries established in the framework’s mandate.”
Translation: Gun control is a global threat, not just a domestic problem involving social do-gooders. Standing in their way is the Second Amendment, say gun rights advocates who are now waging court battles across the legal landscape.
