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I am convinced that part of this treaty will include a requirement to license firearms owners. Also that it will require all transactions to go through a licensed dealer. I have seen another version of the treaty that was to be a framework or recommended legislation that included such requirements.

It's funny how things get reported in other countries. You'd think two completly different events occured.


http://www.theage.com.au/world/obama-fl ... -aa8v.html

Obama floats ban on weapons
Anne Davies, Washington Correspondent
April 18, 2009
SALES of military-style assault weapons should be banned in the US, President Barack Obama said as he met Mexican President Felipe Calderon to discuss measures to curb violence among Mexican drug cartels.

and the many times debunked:

"We have a responsibility to act too," Mr Obama said on Thursday. "Some 90 per cent of the guns recovered in Mexico come from the United States." But he also said no one was under the illusion that the ban would be easy.

OK... I'm posting this in federal because we don't yet have an "international" section.

Obama said that he will push the U.S. Senate to ratify an inter-American arms trafficking treaty designed to curb the flow of guns and ammunition to drug cartels and other armed groups in the hemisphere.

See Article: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04 ... ce-mexico/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

My radar is going off. There must be more to this than just applying to arms trafficking. I smell registration.

But then a Chronicle article states: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6376969.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Obama said he still believed that the ban “made sense” but pointedly added: “None of us are under any illusion that reinstating that ban would be easy.” He said he would focus instead on using existing laws to stop the flow of weapons to Mexico from the thousands of U.S. gun stores along the border.

and again:

Obama announced he would ask the Senate to ratify an inter-American weapons treaty meant to take on the bloody drug trade by restricting arms trafficking.

Gee, I woulda thunk arms trafficking was already restricted and illegal arm trafficking, well was maybe already illegal. Go Figure. Why is my radar screaming aleart on this? Something about substituting registration for the AWB, maybe?