President Biden did not announce the U.S. is signing a treaty to create a global gun control registry. Here are the facts on a range of false claims.
President Joe Biden addresses the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday.President Joe Biden just announced that he is adding the U.S. as a signatory to the United Nations “Small Arms Treaty,” which would “establish an international gun control registry” in which other countries can “track the ‘end user’ of every rifle, shotgun, and handgun sold in the world.”, regulates the international trade of a range of weapons, but does not track domestic gun sales.
Experts note that the treaty was written to explicitly make clear it has no bearing on domestic gun rights or sales. The treaty’s preamble, for example, states that the agreement is “Reaffirming the sovereign right of any State to regulate and control conventional arms exclusively within its territory, pursuant to its own legal or constitutional system.” The U.N. has “no gun control registry in terms of private ownership, whatsoever,” Erickson said. Erickson said the U.S.
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