David Keene: UN arms treaty an attempt to ‘end-run the Constitution’

United Nations debate over the international Arms Trade Treaty is set to resume in March amid a barrage of criticism.

David Keene, president of the National Rifle Association, described the treaty as a ploy by President Barack Obama to circumnavigate Congress, federal courts and state legislatures in an effort to enforce his firearm agenda, potentially violating the Second Amendment rights of U.S. citizens.

“The president and his people will tell your viewers [the treaty] does not affect the rights of the people of the U.S. It does,” Keene said in an interview with The Daily Caller’s Ginni Thomas. “It requires an international registry of firearms. It charges all signatory countries to set up a regime of firearms ownership and registration in their country consistent with the treaty.”

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