The ATT and the ABA: Part 4

The Arms Trade Treaty and the Second Amendment: Too Risky to Ratify, with John G. Malcolm, Heritage Foundation Foundry, March 18, 2013. "The U.S. is sensitive to allegations that it is failing to fulfill treaty commitments, and it rightly takes its treaty obligations seriously. Because the ATT is a process that is designed to evolve and grow, it is impossible to know where it will lead."

The ATT and the ABA: Part 3

The Arms Trade Treaty and the Second Amendment: The Dangers of Transnationalism, with John G. Malcolm, Heritage Foundation Foundry, March 16, 2013. "The ABA paper neglects another fundamental point. Though the ATT is a treaty, it is fundamentally a process, not an event. It envisages a secretariat (Article 12(1)) charged with assisting “effective implementation” of the treaty and (Article 21) regular conferences of nations party to the treaty that will 'consider and adopt recommendations regarding the implementation and operation of this Treaty.'"

The ATT and the ABA: Part 2

The Arms Trade Treaty and the Second Amendment: Encouraging Executive Actions, with John G. Malcolm, Heritage Foundation Foundry, March 14, 2013. "In the first part of the series, we noted our concerns with the implications of the treaty for the import of firearms and as they relate to the federal structure of the U.S. In this second part, we look at how the treaty’s requirements may invite further executive actions by the United States."

The ATT and the ABA

The Arms Trade Treaty and the Second Amendment: Answering the American Bar Association, with John Malcolm, Heritage Foundation Foundry, March 13, 2013. "On February 26, the American Bar Association’s Center for Human Rights issued a white paper on the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), which concludes that “the proposed ATT is consistent with the Second Amendment.” This conclusion neglects important facts about the treaty and the processes surrounding it, which we will explore in this four-part blog series."