Negotiations on the UN Small Arms Treaty have stalled out. Hopefully people will stop yelling at me about it now.
Yes, there’s a chance that it’ll come up for another vote by the end of the year, but its momentum will be severely stalled. Even if it does cross the pond, there’s no way 2/3 of Congress would ever vote for it. No, the President cannot “get around it with an Executive Order.” Put simply, the guys in blue helmets aren’t going to come raining out of the sky like Slim Pickens to take our guns.
For all the existential crisis this seems to be causing, I’m unsure if anyone’s actually researched this for themselves. If it were to be enacted, the treaty would do nothing to affect commerce in arms within the United States. It would regulate international commerce. That means, like, from one country to a different country. Continued...