Bob Barr: “I spent a little bit of time this week, and last week also, at the United Nations Conference on Small Arms, and I can…”

“I spent a little bit of time this week, and last week also, at the United Nations Conference on Small Arms, and I can assure the gentleman that his concern is not misplaced. I am very familiar not only with the debates that have been going on in the United Nations, having been privy to a number of closed-door sessions up there as a member of our delegation; but I also have read in great detail the documents that are, even as we speak this evening, being grafted and changed by the functionaries and the General Assembly members at the United Nations. The United Nations, through this effort which has been going on for several years and now culminates in this conference, looks to involve itself in a very substantial way in domestic U.S. policy in terms of furthering their goal of gun registration of lawful firearms, recordkeeping, and limitations on the manufacture, the possession, the transfer, and the export of firearms.”