U.N has a controversial agreement that aims to regulate weapons around the world have created confusion and misinformation.
Informally as the 'Small Arms Treaty,' Comentatornya alleges that the proposed treaty by secretly trying to take guns from the hands of America and avoiding Amendment 2.
Meanwhile, a draft proposal obtained FoxNews.com work contains language and supporters who said the weapon could have some real impact on American weapons production........
Informally as the 'Small Arms Treaty,' Comentatornya alleges that the proposed treaty by secretly trying to take guns from the hands of America and avoiding Amendment 2.
Meanwhile, a draft proposal obtained FoxNews.com work contains language and supporters who said the weapon could have some real impact on American weapons production........
Last month a UN committee met in New York and signed on several provisions, including the creation of a new UN body to regulate international arms sales, and require countries to host the firearms manufacturers to set up compensation funds for victims of gun violence across the world.
Tom Mason, who represents the World Forum on the Future of Sport Shooting at UN conference, told FoxNews.com alarming provisions.
"No black helicopters. There is no confidentiality agreement that Hillary Clinton has signed," said Mason. "But on the other hand, the agreement is a significant threat to gun owners. I think the biggest threat may be the body that will manage the agreement," he added, referring to a new UN agency would create an agreement, to be called "Implementation Support Unit."
In the latest draft of the agreement, each country will be required to submit a report to the SPI describes "all activities carried out in order to achieve the implementation of this Agreement, including the ... domestic laws, regulations and administrative measures."
It also requires states to establish their own government agencies to trace guns that can be exported. "Parties shall take all necessary measures to control brokering activities occur within its territory ... to prevent the diversion of weapons black market or exported to an undesirable end-users," reads the draft.
Vague words leaves room for interpretation, and UN representatives to major U.S. weapons manufacturer who spoke on condition of anonymity told FoxNews.com told FoxNews.com that he believes it leaves room for SPI to declare the registration of all American made weapons to prevent illegal export .
"Does this mean it will apply some gun registration schemes internationally? It could happen here, under the agreement," said the representative of arms manufacturer.
Daniel Prins, chief of the Conventional Arms Branch of the UN Office for Disarmament Affairs (ODA) told FoxNews.com that no provision has been completed.
"All the issues remain on the table," said Prins.
Supporters of gun control others who attended the UN conference said that American gun owners do not have to worry about.
"People in the U.S. do not have to worry about it unless they sell international weapons," Colin Goddard, of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, told FoxNews.com. "Overall agreement is to prevent the country from selling weapons to other countries that have serious violations of human rights."
Goddard said that concerns about the possibility of a national registry of weapons is ridiculous because it just meant the agreement to limit arms sales between countries. "It does not include weapons that are stored internally," he said, adding that the SPI will remain efficient.
"They're just trying to set up a regulatory board ... All the other people worry about a big bureaucracy, and I can understand. But the committee is trying to keep it small and lean," said Goddard.
Representative arms manufacturer said his client did not purchase it. "It is clear that it would give a huge load of new administration."
A potential regulatory expensive mainly discussed at the conference last month would require gun makers to carve out a sequential search on every one of some 3 billion bullets are produced in the U.S. each year.
And that, he said, would make the weapon more expensive for everyone.
"Manufacturers need to pass on the cost to civilian customers." Another controversial part of the draft agreement set a compensation fund for victims of gun violence, which will transfer money from countries that export arms to countries that have suffered from gun violence.
"States should support the victims of all types of victims," Goddard said, noting that it is a big issue in the conference agreement in July. But it was included in the draft agreement as providing only voluntary for each country.
Goddard added that he did not believe that the fund would make it a final version of the agreement, partly because the U.S. delegation opposed the measure. The U.S. government delegation has opposed restrictions on civilian weapons in general.Canada has been doing the same.
The State Department did not respond to calls for comment.
But Versnel said that most countries support additional regulations on civilian weapons.
"Almost everyone is pushing for more," said Julianne Versnel, director of operations for the Second Amendment Foundation, who also attended the conference, FoxNews.com. "This is Europe, it's Africa, the Caribbean, South America. Mexico has been at the forefront."
Regardless of what other countries agree to rules, the agreement becomes law in the U.S. only if it gets two-thirds majority in the Senate.
And last month, more than 50 senators signed a letter to Secretary of State Clinton said they would not vote for any agreements that restrict civilian gun.
NRA believes that the agreement will not be passed in the U.S.
"The UN could pass if they want it," said NRA spokesman Andrew Arulanandam FoxNews.com.
"But for that to have any effect in the country, we need to pass the Senate with a vote of two-thirds - and obviously that will not happen in this making of the U.S. Senate, regardless of what governments do."
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