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22 Feb 2019
The UN Arms Trade Treaty prohibits civilian ownership of firearms.

Also, the UN treaty they couldn't get last year is set, and we've covered it. We've written articles at Infowars.com on it in detail. The UN treaty says no civilian ownership of firearms. And that's not just my interpretation. That's Forbes and Reuters. Nope. And because it says states can have guns, governments, but not individuals.

22 Feb 2019
The Arms Trade Treaty addresses international illegal weapons trafficking, not civilian gun ownership.

Alex is way off on this UN treaty he's going on about here. The treaty that he has to be talking about is the Arms Trade Treaty, which wasn't actually passed until December 2014, but had been in the works since 2001. 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.