I'll remain skeptical and cautious as always, but I'm beginning to believe that it's finally sinking in to some that gun control is a losing issue (hell, even Kerry voted in favor of it)...
Roll call vote
No surprises here though...
NAYs ---10
Durbin (D-IL)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Harkin (D-IA)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Levin (D-MI)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Reed (D-RI)
Schumer (D-NY)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
And a number of no-shows/not voting presidential candidates...
Not Voting - 9
Biden (D-DE)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Clinton (D-NY)
Craig (R-ID)
Dodd (D-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
McCain (R-AZ)
Obama (D-IL)
Text of amendment...
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Senate Votes To Address U.N. Gun Ban Crusade
Friday, September 07, 2007
With the United Nations continuing its efforts to enact draconian, transnational gun control laws in countries around the world, yesterday the U.S. Senate passed the Foreign Operations appropriations bill, which included an amendment by Senator David Vitter (R-LA) that seeks to address the U.N.’s ongoing international gun ban efforts.
Senator VitterBy an overwhelming 81-10 vote, the Senate passed Sen. Vitter’s amendment to prevent any funding to foreign organizations that infringe upon the Second Amendment rights of lawful American citizens. Any organization that adopts a policy anathema to the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment would no longer be eligible for U.S. financial assistance—including the U.N.
The gun ban issue in the U.N. has been percolating for more than a decade, and while NRA has been successful to date in precluding the U.N. from enacting its anti-freedom agenda, the bureaucrats at Turtle Bay remain committed in their zeal to push for additional restrictions on the rights of free gun owners in the United States and around the globe.
Global registration and tracking of firearms would inevitably lead to the global disarmament of free citizens everywhere; something that we cannot and will not let happen. NRA will remain vigilant in monitoring the U.N.’s anti-gun actions and speaking out in the international community in support of Americans’ Second Amendment rights.
Roll call vote
No surprises here though...
NAYs ---10
Durbin (D-IL)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Harkin (D-IA)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Levin (D-MI)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Reed (D-RI)
Schumer (D-NY)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
And a number of no-shows/not voting presidential candidates...
Not Voting - 9
Biden (D-DE)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Clinton (D-NY)
Craig (R-ID)
Dodd (D-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
McCain (R-AZ)
Obama (D-IL)
Text of amendment...
SA 2774. Mr. VITTER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill H.R. 2764, making appropriations for the Department of State, foreign operations, and related programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2008, and for other purposes; as follows:
On page 410, between lines 15 and 16, insert the following:
RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS
Sec. 699B. None of the funds made available under this Act may be made available to any international organization, agency, or entity (including the United Nations) that requires the registration of, or taxes a gun owned by a citizen of the United States.
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