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Top 10 Areas for Congressional Action on the Arms Trade Treaty in 2016

Congress has played a vital role in placing the ATT on this road to irrelevance. It should help to ensure that the U.S. is not slowly pulled into compliance...

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Attend NRA Law Symposium on Protecting the Right to Bear Arms: History and Challenges

On November 5, the Heritage Foundation, the Georgetown Center on the Constitution, and the Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy will host a one-day Law Symposium on Protecting the Right.....

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Congress Should Stop Implementation of the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty

The Obama Administration, without even transmitting the treaty to the Senate, has sought to implement it. Congress should hold hearings to reveal the extent U.S. policies have been shaped by ATT...

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After U.S. Signature, Dangers of U.N. Arms Trade Treaty Begin to Surface

Particularly worrying is the way the ATT is rapidly becoming part of wider UN conventional arms control initiatives – which, since the ATT is not an arms control treaty, is unwelcome...

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The Impending U.S. Signature of the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty

Secretary of State John Kerry welcomes it with open arms, noting that the U.S. look[ed] forward to signing it as soon as the process of conforming the official translations is completed...

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Syria: Would the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty Ban U.S. Aid to the Rebels

Proponents of the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty assert that the treaty prevents signatories from supporting not only the Syrian opposition but future rebellions against other totalitarian regimes...

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Arms Trade Treaty: Problems for USA with Substance & Process

The concept of the ATT is inherently flawed, and the U.S. should neither sign nor ratify the ATT. But the process by which it was adopted is even more damaging...

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Arms Trade Treaty in Review – Worst Of All Possible Outcomes

So now we have an undesirable treaty, one that will be expanded and elaborated on over time, and one that was adopted through a bad process. This is just about the worst of all possible worlds...

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The End of the Arms Trade Treaty Conference Is Not the End of the Treaty

Late on Thursday, the U.N. conference on the Arms Trade Treaty fell apart when Iran, North Korea, and Syria opposed the treaty...

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