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Global gun grab update.


In early July, the UN convened the first (take a deep breath) Biennial Meeting of States to Consider the Implementation of the Program of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms small arms, firearms designed primarily to be carried and fired by one person and, generally, held in the hands, as distinguished from heavy arms, or artillery. Early Small Arms


The first small arms came into general use at the end of the 14th cent.
 and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects. This preposterously titled meeting was a follow-up to the 2001 UN conference on small arms, which created a framework for civilian disarmament worldwide in the name of controlling so-called illicit weapons.

As documented in the 2000 UN propaganda film Armed to the Teeth: The World-Wide Plague of Small Arms, the UN considers all civilian-owned firearms to be illicit by definition. In his millennium report We the Peoples, Secretary-General Kofi Annan Kofi Atta Annan (born April 8, 1938) is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1 1997 to January 1 2007, serving two five-year terms. He was the co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2001.  declared: "Controlling the proliferation of illicit weapons is a necessary first step toward the non-proliferation of small arms. These weapons must be brought under the control of states, and states must be held responsible for their transfer." According to according to
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Secretary Shinzo Abe
Internal Affairs Heizo Takenaka
Justice Seiken Sugiura
Foreign Affairs Taro Aso
Finance Sadakazu Tanigaki
Education Kenji Kosaka
Health Jiro Kawasaki
, who chaired the most recent UN small arms conference, more than 90 nations had complied with UN demands by passing new "gun control" laws designed to disarm their civilian populations.

The primary target of the UN small arms agenda, of course, is the American gun-owning population. Former Congressman Bob Barr
For the Major League Baseball player, see Bob Barr (baseball).


Robert L. (Bob) Barr, Jr. (born November 5, 1948) is an attorney and a former member of the United States House of Representatives from Georgia.
, who attended the conference as a delegate on behalf of the State Department, commented on the July 16th edition of MSNBC's Scarborough Country program: "I listened to day after day after day of tirades by member nations and the UN bureaucrats.... And their agenda truly is--and they make no bones about it--to begin a process of an internationally binding system of regulating and registering firearms and eventually to outlawing all civilian use of firearms and possession of firearms Ask a Lawyer

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 in all member nations."

Addressing New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 Democrat Congressman Anthony Weiner, who appeared on the program to defend the UN's agenda, Barr observed: "The [UN] documents make clear that they ... are trying to take away guns from you and your constituents."
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Title Annotation:gun control; Insider Report
Publication:The New American
Geographic Code:00WOR
Date:Aug 11, 2003
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