Urgent Action required

[John25]

From the NRA website:-



Proposed United Nations Arms Trade Treaty


A Conference to discuss the text of a proposed United Nations Conventional Arms Trade Treaty will begin on 18th March. The Treaty is intended to control the legitimate trade in military arms of all sorts from warships to small arms. The draft Treaty originally contained exemptions for sporting arms and antiques, but these do not appear in the latest draft. While the Treaty should not affect the possesion or movement of firearms in Britain or the EU, it could make it far more difficult for hunters or target shooters to take their personal firearms outside the EU. The additional bureaucracy would also make more expensive the international trade in sporting firearms, already tightly controlled, thus putting up the cost of our sport.

In order to support moves to re-instate exceptions in favour of the legitimate shooter and collector and the civilian gun trade, please send an email as soon as possible and definitley by the 26th March to the Arms Trade Treaty Desk Officer at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office. The address is: Richard.Hilder@fco.gov.uk

Your message should request that:

1) Civilian firearms should be excepted from the proposed Arms Trade Treaty.
2) All temporary exports and re-imports of firearms, where no change of ownership occurs should be excepted from the proposed Treaty.
3)Antique firearms, as defined in the UN Vienna Firearms Protocol, should be excepted from the Treaty.



http://www.nra.org.uk/common/asp/conten ... RA&id=1247

[waterford103]

He's not there to answer his emails cc to jessica.hand@fco.gov

[John25]

I have emailed both, thanks



My email:-

Dear Mr. Hilder,

I would like to add my concerns over the possible consequences for our sport and the livelihoods of many UK Citizens

In particular I would ask you to consider that the following should be excepted:

1. antique firearms as already defined in the Vienna protocol.
2. civilian firearms
3. Any and all temporary exports, imports and re-imports.
4. Component parts and spares for sporting firearms


Inclusion of the above categories would impose hardship and loss of income on legitimate businessmen, it would exacerbate the difficulties of overseas touring teams, if not curtail them altogether; the UK has an excellent record in the shooting sports.

Further restrictions on component parts would place extra strains on the UK gun trade, and render many very expensive and irreplaceable competition firearms useless in the event of a breakage.

Yours sincerely

John Gardener

[David-mauser]

Done and done.

Dave

[David-mauser]

He's not there to answer his emails cc to jessica.hand@fco.gov

Yep sure enough I got this

"I will be in New York for the ATT negotiation and will therefore have limited access to email during this time. Please contact Jessica Hand in my absence.

Kind regards,

Richard"

So send it direct to jessica.hand@fco.gov

[whoowhoop]

Done

[IainWR]

Anyone got a link to the draft treaty?

[whoowhoop]

send it direct to jessica.hand@fco.gov.uk

.uk was missing- wondered why it bounced back sign01

[whoowhoop]

https://www.un.org/disarmament/ATT/

https://www.un.org/disarmament/ATT/docs ... nce%29.pdf

[Blackstuff]

Already done from the UKPSA thread, good job putting it on here