By Dave Workman
Senior Editor
The Second Amendment Foundation has launched what it calls a “national media campaign and petition effort,” complete with an advertisement that will appear on Fox News and Blaze networks, and be broadcast on national talk radio, in an effort to stop a possible executive order by President Barack Obama to implement the United Nations Small Arms treaty.
SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan Gottlieb, in a press statement released Friday morning, threatened legal action if the president attempts to go around the U.S. Senate to implement the treaty. Several members of the Senate have made it clear that the treaty will not be ratified because of concerns that it could infringe on the Second Amendment.
“We’re going to gather millions of petitions and deliver them to Washington,” Gottlieb said. “We’re going to tell the Obama administration to keep its hands off of our gun rights or be sued.”
He acknowledged that “Nobody threatens to sue the President of the United States on a whim.”
However, Gottlieb noted that recent history has clearly demonstrated that the president is willing to take action that is not popular, nor has much traction, on Capitol Hill.
“He has used a lawless executive order to grant amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants,” Gottlieb observed, “without Congressional authorization, and now many people are worried that he plans to bypass Congress again, before the end of this year, with the U.N. treaty, which takes effect on Dec. 24.”
In addition to the television and radio spot, SAF has opened a toll-free telephone line at 1-800-782-8685, which allows people to participate in the petition effort. The advertisement may also be seen on YouTube. The intention is to educate the public “so people understand the threat that an Obama executive order poses to the Constitution.”
“SAF will not allow the Obama administration to attack our constitutional rights without a fight,” Gottlieb warned. “If Barack Obama takes executive action, we will file a lawsuit to stop him, and hold him accountable.
“If the president acts on the U.N. Arms Trade treaty,” he added, “it would be the worst kind of Christmas present he could ever give to the American people.
“Nobody elected Barack Obama as emperor,” the veteran gun rights advocate stated, “but his actions lately suggests he believes otherwise. If he has forgotten there are three branches of government, we intend to refresh his memory.”
