Originally posted by GtoRA2
The UN had tried something like that years ago.
It appears to me that the UN is still pushing for firearms controls.
A quote from the NZ minister of police:
"There has also been work undertaken by the United Nations on developing common principles for combating the illicit manufacturing of and trafficking in firearms, their parts, components and ammunition in a transnational context. If New Zealand is to be a party to this type of multilateral undertaking, then there will need to be amendments to the Arms Act 1983.
The licensing process in the Arms Act provides a strong basis for firearm control, by requiring that all firearm owners be licensed to own and use firearms. This will remain the cornerstone of firearm control. Other controls, such as firearm registration, have the potential to be useful adjuncts to firearm licensing"
That UN protocol he's referring too requires that firearms are able to be traced in an attempt to prevent illegal trafficking in guns from one country to another.
I don't know if that protocol has been ratified, or what view other country's goverments have on it, but somehow the government and the anti-gun lobby here have interpreted its meaning to be that the UN wants registration of all firearms in NZ so they can be "traced"
Maybe domestic registration of firearms is the UN's true intent and they are just being subversive about how they try and inpliment it. I can't see how a gun can be traced without some form of registration.
Either way it's a crock.
A useful site on gun control with an international flavour (pdf files, acrobat reader is needed)
http://www.wfsa.net/Statistics_&_Research_Documents.htmExcel
