House resolution calls on Obama to reject UN arms trade treaty
Several dozen members of the House have introduced a resolution
that calls on President Obama not to sign the United Nations's
Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). It also demands that if Obama does sign
it, the government should not spend any time or money on
implementation until the Senate approves it.  The resolution,
whose main sponsor is Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.), argues that the
ATT does not recognize the right of American citizens to keep
and bear arms, and thus threatens to undermine the Second
Amendment of the Constitution. The ATT aims to regulate
international trade in conventional arms.  "There is
considerable cause for alarm regarding the UN's renewed efforts
to forge an Arms Trade Treaty that could trample the
constitutional rights of Americans, and could seriously
compromise our national security and the security of our allies,
whom we will be less able to arm and less quick to defend due to
the restrictions placed on us by the ATT," Kelly said