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Bang / Guns Title: Beware: The United Nations Is Taking Aim at Ammo Beware: The United Nations Is Taking Aim at Ammo The United Nations will have a busy year in 2018 on the firearms front. Thats not good news for anyone in the U.S. who buys firearms. When it comes to the U.N. and guns, the best form of action is always inaction. Worse, manufacturers and importers at this years SHOT Showthe Shooting, Hunting, and Outdoor Trade Show, organized by the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the trade association for the firearms industry, which ran from Jan. 23 to 26believe theyre starting to see the results of past U.N. anti-gun efforts. Bottom line: there are more problems for U.S. gun importers, while China gets a free pass on a critical issue. The first headline event for the U.N. in 2018 will be, in June, a Review Conference of the Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects. The program is usually (and mercifully) known as the PoA. Then, in August, will come the annual Conference of States Parties to the Arms Trade Treaty, the 2013 ATT, which nominally requires nations to impose new controls on international shipments of arms. The PoA, as even its defenders concede, is useless. But a review conference offers opportunities for mischief. At a normal PoA meeting, nations merely report on their implementation of the program. But at a review conference, nations can try to supplement it. The biennial report of the U.N. secretary-general on small arms and light weapons, issued in December, leaves little doubt about activists priority for 2018: to have ammunition included in the PoA, even though ammunition already has its own instrument, the harmless International Ammunition Technical Guidelines. The impracticality of focusing on a consumable commodity like ammunition, of which tens of billions of rounds are produced annually, will not deter the activists. The program is also likely to return to an obsession with marking and tracing modular firearmssuch as the AR type of firearm popular in the U.S.and with polymer (i.e. plastic) and 3-D printed firearms. These are, at best, niche issues, if they are issues at all. What the PoA is guaranteed not to do is to eliminate the exemption that allows China to leave its firearms unmarked in any meaningful way, thereby making them nearly impossible to trace. Getting rid of the Chinese exemption would be a genuinely useful step, but the program is not about doing useful things. The best the U.S. can do, therefore, is to try and ensure that it does nothing at all. The U.S. certainly cannot agree to any obligation to do the impossible by tracing every bullet the nation produces. The Arms Trade Treaty conference in August, fortunately, should be less fraught. The treaty is now, on its own terms, an obvious failurenations are not paying their dues or filing required reports. The only thing left for the U.S. to do is for President Donald Trump to unsign it, and leave those nations that wish to keep on pretending to take it seriously to pay for their meetings on their own. But just because the Arms Trade Treaty is accomplishing nothing useful doesnt mean the U.N.s efforts are having no impact on the U.S. The most disturbing thing I learned at the SHOT Show was that U.S. importers were having increasing difficultieswhich they linked directly to the United Nations. One firm that relies on imports of parts from India found that New Delhiacting under the guidance of the International Small Arms Control Standards, yet another mischievous U.N. initiativehad impounded an entire shipment worth millions of dollars, on the grounds that these parts had to be controlled under a technical definition that India did not understand and which those who did found close to meaningless. Other nations will no longer ship arms to the U.S.even to the U.S. government. Another firm that imports firearms from southeastern Europe now has only one reliable route off the continentfrom Slovenia to Austria to the German port of Hamburg. Many shipping firms departing from European ports will no longer take cargoes of armseven when all export and transit licenses are in orderand even proper licenses do not always prevent cargoes from being seized en route. These problems began to appear after the Arms Trade Treaty, which requires controls on the transit of arms, entered into force. Activists will no doubt celebrate these developments as victories. They should think again. As shipping by sea becomes harder, legitimate firms will be forced to turn to air freightwhich offers an easier route for the unscrupulous. If southeastern Europe does not sell its firearms to the U.S., those arms will find their way to conflicts in Africa or the Middle East. And as it becomes harder to import parts and components, U.S. manufacturers will source domesticallyas, indeed, they are already starting to do. The fact is that the U.N.s activities are inconveniencing only the legal trade and the most honest firms. Their effect on illicit trade is only to make smuggling more attractive. That isnt going to bother the activists, because while they complain about the illicit arms trade, they fundamentally regard all arms salesdomestic or internationalas illegitimate, whether legal or not. Thats just one more reason why the U.S. needs to be well-prepared to defend its interests during the U.N.s busy year in firearms. Originally published by Fox News Ted Bromund @Bromund Ted R. Bromund, Ph.D., is the Margaret Thatcher senior research fellow at The Heritage Foundation. Read his research. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top Page Up Full Thread Page Down Bottom/Latest
#1. To: 3-Dee (#0)
After a few Paultards read this article, maybe you Paultards can explain to Ba Ba Ba Bucky, why I've amassed thousands upon thousands of primers. Try making one, when they are outlawed or regulated at a cost the average can't afford. It's the ONLY component, that can't be manufactured or reused in the four component loading process 1) projectile... (molded via lead) 2) smokeless powder ... (can be made with a chemical process) 3) Shells/Brass ... (can be reused and resized) 4) primers ... you have none? You're fucked. lol I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
I don't understand why China gets any exemption at all. They are a vicious communist regime. I notice that there is some current exemption for "southeastern Europe". I'm not sure which country (or countries) that is and what kind of guns or ammo they're describing. Is this a reference to Austria and Glock? This article is so vague that I'm not sure why anyone should pay attention to it. Very sloppy and uninformative.
I feel much better just thinking of you on a rooftop somewhere when "the zombies" try to take over the States. Maybe it's because I'm watching Dredd on AMC right now, a cop movie where they just execute shitbirds on the spot.
Ah... such a warm and wonderful thought. Ok, I'm back in the depressive state of the ills that come along with due process. I like the way Mother Nature works. She takes the WEAK, the stupid and sometimes the innocent... but oh well, it's called life. Nobody gets out alive. I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
2) smokeless powder ... (can be made with a chemical process) 3) Shells/Brass ... (can be reused and resized) 4) primers ... you have none? You're fucked. lol " All true. Just be very careful how you store your powder & primers !!! A good friend of mine, retired State Trooper, few years ago died in a fire in his garage in his reloading shop. But you are correct, primers would be the most difficult component to " roll your own " I use to reload, still have equipment & components to reload numerous calibers and gauges. Getting older, and only work up very precise loads. For most shooting, I prefer to buy by the case. Stack it up, ready to go. Also safer to store, and much quicker to use / deploy. It also greatly simplify s logistics. Numerous sizes / types of primers. Sizes / types of bullets, powders, shot, etc is a lot to keep up with. Cases of factory ammo is much easier - Just open the case, fill the mags, open fire. If bunch of Obutthole ghetto apes ( potatoes ) converge, we are ready. Don't have to holler at wife & kids " Honey, you & the kids hold em off while I go crank out a few hundred rounds " If you run out before I get back, " Fix bayonets !" ;) Si vis pacem, para bellum Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. Never Pick A Fight With An Old Man He Will Just Shoot You He Can't Afford To Get Hurt "If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went." (Will Rogers)
All very well stated. As far as my powders, I store them in a cool dry place. I only stock one pound containers of each powder I use. I leave it out in the open... so if I ever have a fire, it just flashes over I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
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