The NRA lawyers have explained in the following article, exactly why the UN Arms Trade Treaty is so dangerous, in light of mainstream media poo-pooing concerns that the treaty wouldn't affect internal USA gun laws (in their delusions).
https://www.nraila.org/articles/2019050 ... gun-owners
The treaty urges record keeping of end users, directing importing countries to provide information to an exporting country regarding arms transfers, including “end use or end user documentation” for a “minimum of ten years.” Each country is to “take measures, pursuant to its national laws, to regulate brokering taking place under its jurisdiction for conventional arms.” Data kept on the end users of imported firearms is a de-facto registry of law-abiding firearms owners, which is a violation of federal law. Even worse, the ATT could be construed to require such a registry to be made available to foreign governments...
...The vagueness of the treaty and its ease of being “amended” is best exemplified by actions that took place at a conference on the treaty last year. At that conference, proponents of the treaty “welcome[ed]” several living documents into the ATT. While seemingly innocuous on its face, this change incorporated the International Small Arms Control Standards (ISACS) into the ATT...
...Purporting to set the standards for “National Regulation of Civilian Access to Small Arms and Light Weapons,” Module 3.30 creates a means to almost entirely limit civilian access to small arms under the guise of International Humanitarian Law, International Human Rights Law, and Gender Based Violence. Highlights include, but are not limited to; a ban on civilian possession of “military” style arms – no automatic weapons or magazines with over a 10 round capacity, ballistic recordings, different risk classifications on types of firearms (i.e. calibers over .45 are an intolerable risk to public safety and semi-auto handguns and rifles are high risk), licensing and registration of all firearms, training and storage restrictions, waiting periods, 20-year record retention requirements of sellers, age limits and requiring a demonstrated need to possess a firearm, with self-defense not being one of them.
...Instead, the treaty included language in its preamble that treaty parties be “mindful of the legitimate trade and lawful ownership, and use of certain conventional arms for recreational, cultural, historical, and sporting activities, where such trade, ownership and use are permitted or protected by law.” A careful read will show that the use of arms for individual and collective defense is notably missing from this statement, and the statement creates no limitation and is really only an aspirational provision.
In reality, the ATT with the UN adding in the Small Arms Treaty provisions (which they've already done) would implement the entire radical gun-control agenda over all nations which sign on to the treaty.
1. no automatic weapon ownership by civilians
2. max 10 round magazines
3. no civilian ownership of calibers over .45
4. complete national and international registration of all firearms
5. licensing for civilian ownership of firearms
6. strict training and storage requirements
7. elimination of self-defense as a reason to allow a civilian to own a gun
etc.
The above is what Obama signed the USA onto, and we are fortunate that McConnell and the senate Republicans held the line and refused to bring the treaty up for a vote. If Trump had not 'unsigned' the treaty, then if the senate flipped to Democrat in the future, then the D's would salivate at passing this radical gun-control scheme over every State in the USA by international treaty.
You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time...and those are pretty good odds.
Brett Maverick, gambler on TV (also used by Progressive leaders everywhere)