REFERENCE TITLE: arms trade treaty; urging Congress

State of Arizona Senate Fifty-second Legislature Second Regular Session 2016

SCM 1013

Introduced by Senator Griffin

 

A CONCURRENT MEMORIAL

 

urging the United States Congress to continue to take action to prevent the United States from entering into the United nations Arms Trade Treaty or other similar treaties.

 

 

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To the Congress of the United States of America:

Your memorialist respectfully represents:

Whereas, United Nations (UN) Security Council Resolution 2117, which was adopted on September 26, 2013, "[c]alls for Member States to support weapons collection, disarmament, demobilization and reintegration of ex‑combatants, as well as physical security and stockpile management programmes by United Nations peacekeeping operations where so mandated"; and

Whereas, the UN Arms Trade Treaty strives to place a global ban on the import and export of small firearms, affecting all private gun owners in the United States, and to implement an international gun registry on all private guns and ammunition; and

Whereas, Senator James Inhofe introduced an amendment to the budget in 2013 that would prevent the United States from entering into the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty "[t]o uphold Second Amendment rights and prevent the United States from entering into the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty," which passed on a 53-46 vote.

Wherefore your memorialist, the Senate of the State of Arizona, the House of Representatives concurring, prays:

1.  That the United States Congress continue to take action to prevent the United States from entering into the UN Arms Trade Treaty or other similar treaties that would interfere with the Second Amendment rights of United States citizens.

2.  That the Secretary of State of the State of Arizona transmit copies of this Memorial to the President of the United States, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, the President of the United States Senate and each Member of Congress from the State of Arizona.