Arms Treaty Dead (for now)…

Posted on by March 6, 2013
Finally!  Looks like the US contingent did it in!


UN Arms Treaty Dead

By James S. Robbins – The Washington Times
July 27, 2012, 06:53PM

Talks over the UN Arms Trade Treaty fell apart today, effectively killing the agreement. The Arms Trade Treaty Legal Blog reports that the process seemed to be moving to completion when the United States requested an extension to the time to negotiate the agreement. This opened the door to other countries to begin registering objections, and it soon became clear that reaching agreement within the allowed timeframe would be impossible. The proposed treaty, which raised considerable domestic opposition from gun rights advocates in the United States, died before it had a chance to become a threat. As a delegate from China observed, “C’est la vie et la vie c’est ça.”

The UN may take up the matter at a later date, but for now it is on indefinite hiatus. 

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Arms Treaty Dead (for now)… — 17 Comments

  1. Good news there. Iran – a major player in writing this thing?? Really????? Glad to see it dead, now we just need to keep piling dirt on the casket!

  4. Whew! Dodged a bullet there!

    (Why yes, I AM fond of truly lame puns, thankyouverymuch.)

    Good news.

  5. Good news. 🙂

    I won’t repeat what the husband had to say about the heifer pushing for it so strongly…

  6. Come on snigs1spot, I’d love to hear what billy boy had to say about his favorite sow,err, cow,err,heifer!

  10. The treaty is by no means dead.They asked for a delay and it will remain dormant until after the election.Then Obama can resume polishing that particular turd.

  12. Did you see the bit about the “high-capacity” magazine ban in the cyber-security bill?

    Tim D

  13. The treaty got shelved because it didn’t have provisions for the Chinese to continue ignoring existing treaties in order to sell weapons to whoever they damned well please.

    Which is anyone with cash, apparently.

    Show up at Norinco with $100k, and they will stuff a few containers full of light artillery for you, and post a guard on them until they leave China.

  14. @Kristopher: Wonder if we could get a couple containers of ‘Chinese fireworks’ into the US if we labeled the shipment as ‘campaign contributions for Obama’?

  15. Anon- True, dammit… Just means one more reason NOT to re-elect him!

    ADM- True

    Tim- I did, working on that post now… thx

    Kris- True!!!

    Scott- LOL…

  16. Unfortunately, crap like this doesn’t go away. They, the UN, just stuffs it back into some closet until all the hollering dies down. Then they’ll dig it out and send it forth again.