@parados,
parados wrote:Really? And where is this treaty. Please give us the text to prove snopes wrong.
You mean proposed treaty. As you well know, the proposed measures have not yet made it into law.
In any case, were you hoping I'd somehow forgotten all the links that I've provided you over and over in the past?
Such hope is in vain. See. I remember just fine.
(And
look out for the text I just highlighted in red if you are still eager to read part of an actual proposed treaty.)
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A snippet from a 1999 UN report:
Quote:"States should work towards the introduction of appropriate national legislation, administrative regulations and licensing requirements that define conditions under which firearms can be acquired, used and traded by private persons.
In particular, they should consider the prohibition of unrestricted trade and
private ownership of small arms and light weapons specifically designed for military purposes, such as automatic guns (e.g., assault rifles and machine guns)."
http://disarmament.un.org/cab/smallarms/presskit/sheet21.htm
The rough draft from what would later become the UN's first small arms treaty:
A fine young diplomat by the name of John Bolton gave the following speech at the convention:
http://www.un.int/usa/01_104.htm
The speech can be loosely translated as "You boys go take out those parts about civilian ownership or you'll find Uncle Sam's boot in your @ss."
(The parts about civilian gun ownership were taken out, and the diplomats of the world engaged in copious whining about how domestic US politics was preventing their global anti-freedom agenda.)
After Bolton torpedoed the UN's attempt to create a treaty that would ban civilian ownership of military weapons, some of the diplomats got together and created a regional treaty, the Nairobi Protocol.
One part of the Nairobi Protocol is:
