Since the process began to try to get this thing signed, it's been the focus of a ton of patriot propaganda, specifically that it was the world government signaling they were about to take everyone's guns. The problem is that that treaty doesn't do anything of the sort. The arms trade treaty, as the name might suggest, was about international illegal weapons trafficking. That's very clearly and specifically what it was talking about. Creating international agreements to put in place instruments to help clandestine or help limit clandestine black market arms trading, which I assume is something Alex might be into, or at least he should be, since it kind of gives legal, law-abiding gun owners a bad rap.

The treaty itself, this UN arms trade treaty, it goes so far out of its way to stress that individual states are not bound by this treaty to alter any of their domestic laws. I'm going to read to you from page one, where it specifically reaffirms, quote, the sovereign right of any state to regulate and control conventional arms exclusively within its territory, pursuant to its own legal and constitutional system.