Donald Trump to withdraw US from Arms Trade Treaty

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US President Donald Trump has said he will withdraw his country from the international Arms Trade Treaty.

The agreement, signed by Barack Obama in 2013, aims to regulate the sale of weapons between countries.

The US National Rifle Association says the treaty amounts to international gun control, and is a threat to America's second amendment right to bear arms.

Speaking at the lobbying group's annual meeting, Mr Trump said he would ask the US Senate not to ratify the pact.

The US is the world's top arms exporter. Its weapons sales are 58% higher than those of Russia, the world's second largest exporter.

"We're taking our signature back," the president said at the meeting in Indianapolis, adding that the UN would soon receive formal notice of the US's withdrawal from the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT).

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48076262

[spanone]

1. trump is hell bent on destroying the good ole USA

[Ohiogal]

2. Of course, it's an Obama era agreement.

To the orange windbag, it must go. Does he even know what it says?

[FBaggins]

3. Why "withdraw" from a treaty that was never ratified?

[former9thward]

4. It was signed by President Obama.

Trump is withdrawing the signature and by Executive Order asking the Senate to return the unratified treaty to the White House.

[Opel_Justwax]

5. The Senate never ratified it so it never become the law of the land.

He just feeding more nonsense to the MAGA crowd.

[moondust]

6. World menace.

NRA/gun manufacturers + GOP/DJT

Blood money.

[Initech]

7. So does that mean that we forfeit the war on terror?

That treaty was to make sure that weapons of mass destruction don't get in the hands of terrorists. Now Trump wants to withdraw from that and give Saudi Arabia - a hostile foreign country - $110 billion in weapons? We might as well declare the war on terror dead. Our troops will have fought and died for pretty much nothing.