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Trump’s Deceptive Arms Trade Treaty Argument

Trump’s Deceptive Arms Trade Treaty Argument
May 1, 2019

In announcing that he will withdraw the U.S. from the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty, President Donald Trump falsely claimed that under the international agreement, the U.S. would allow “foreign bureaucrats to trample on your Second Amendment freedom.”

International Gun Ban Treaty?

December 5, 2009

Q: Has Obama found a “legal way around the Second Amendment”?
A: The administration’s agreement to talk about writing a United Nations treaty to regulate arms exports and imports is a far cry from banning possession of firearms, which Obama says he doesn’t want to do and the Supreme Court has said can’t be done anyway.