From the far-right (Breitbart): Obama Seeks Ratification of UN Arms Trade Treaty Before Leaving

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With only months left before before leaving office, President Obama is committed to securing ratification of the United Nation’s Arms Trade Treaty (ATT).

In 2013 the NRA warned: “This treaty threatens individual firearm ownership with an invasive registration scheme [and is full of regulations and requirements that are] blatant attacks on the constitutional rights of every law-abiding American.” The treaty does this, in part, by “[urging] record keeping of end users, directing importing countries to provide information to an exporting country regarding arms transfers, including ‘end use or end user documentation’ for a ‘minimum of ten years.'”

Yet even with all the evidence and warnings that an international registry would certainly follow any U.S. agreement to comport with the treaty, and even though Republicans in the Senate had already made clear the treaty would not be ratified, Secretary of State John Kerry signed it on September 25, 2013. The goal appeared to be put everything in place so a future, Democrat-dominated Senate could revisit the ATT, ratify it, and get the U.S. on the road to international gun control.

And on September 11, The Daily Signal reported that Obama is still committed to ratification of the treaty before he leaves office, if he can find a way to secure it.

http://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2016/09/13/ratification-arms-trade-treaty-still-obamas-wish-list/

Of course, conservatives oppose practically all international agreements - the Convention of Rights for Persons with Disabilities, the Convention of Rights of the Child, the Law of the Sea Treaty, etc., etc., etc.. The Arms Trade Treaty is just one more affront to national sovereignty, like all the other international agreements, in their eyes.

I could not find any non-right wing, conspiratorial source that had anything about Obama's 'secret plan' to ratify the Arms Trade Treaty which he would have to do in a republican-dominated senate. The RW press still has to keep the base stirred up, I suppose.