-- Amendment would remove U.S. from U.N. jurisdiction

by Gun Owners of America

8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151

(703)321-8585, fax: 321-8408, http://www.gunowners.org

(Wednesday, June 4, 1997) -- Pro-gun Representative Ron Paul

(R-TX) is working to remove a tourniquet that is slowly being

drawn around gun owners' necks. GOA has learned from his office

that Rep. Paul plans to introduce -- either today or tomorrow --

an amendment that will pull the U.S. out of the U.N. His office

has asked GOA and its supporters to generate support for passing

this amendment.

Among the many benefits of withdrawing from the world

government would be that the U.N. would no longer have any

authority to enforce its gun control agenda -- an agenda which

has been quietly gathering momentum in the past couple of years.

Here is a brief synopsis of the problem and what Rep. Paul is

planning to doand he is being joined by others:

From the Horse's Mouth -- U.N. openly looking to register

private firearms globally

* The documents from the U.N.'s own webpage --

about disarming American civilians. For example, on December

22, 1995, the UN announced the launch of a study of small

arms. Among the countries involved in this study are the

Japanese, Canadian and Russian governments. (Also

participating was Stewart Allen, Chief of the Intelligence

Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.)

IF THIS IS PART OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER IT SCARES ME AND SHOULD BE STOPED.jb

* A few months later, the U.N. Commission on Crime Prevention

and Criminal Justice met in Vienna (May, 1996) to discuss

strategies for civilian disarmament among the member states.

In announcing this summit, U.N. bureaucrats set forth what

they perceived to be a major problem -- namely, that "small

arms are spreading throughout society with little

documentation, since they are frequently bought from private

individuals." Thus, one of the commission's objectives was to

study gun control laws around the world for "the development

of related strategies" among the member countries (like the

U.S.).

* Since most countries register gun owners, one would

undoubtedly expect that the "related strategies" would include

registering all guns so that the U.N. and the subordinate

governments (including the U.S.) will know where the guns are.

No more anonymous gun sales with "little documentation." No

more passing a gun down from father to son. No more selling a

gun to a friend at the office. Big Brother will track

everything pertaining to guns.

* Gun control illustrates one of the dangers of the U.S.

membership in the U.N. In May of 1994, the Clinton

administration agreed to participate in a discussion of ways

for the United Nations to control the manufacture of guns and

their sales to civilians. This was over a year before all of

the activities of the U.N. Commission on Crime Prevention and

Criminal Justice swung into motion with financial support from

Japan and bureaucrats on loan from our neighbor, Canada.

These other countries were not sneaking in the back door of

U.S. sovereignty -- our own government was hiding behind the