Arms Trade Treaty
The Arms Trade Treaty is the first global accord to regulate nearly all conventional weapons, requiring states to consider multiple criteria in making arms transfer decisions. It entered into force on December 24, 2014, and today has 89 states parties and 44 signatories. The United States signed the treaty on September 25, 2013, but has not ratified it. Although states parties avoided discussing controversial arms sales at their most recent annual meeting in September, the treaty holds out the promise of being a means to promote more responsible arms trade.
The candidate is expected to support U.S. ratification of the Arms Trade Treaty.
Breaking with the Bush administration, Clinton supported negotiation of an arms trade treaty in 2009 as Secretary of State. While it is expected that she would support U.S. ratification of the Arms Trade Treaty, which was concluded after she left office, no public statement has yet been found confirming that.
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The candidate is expected to oppose the Arms Trade Treaty.
No public statement has been found specifically on the Arms Trade Treaty. Trump is likely to oppose the treaty given his stance on promoting the Second Amendment. Treaty opponents have incorrectly tied the Arms Trade Treaty to possible erosion of the Second Amendment.
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Hillary Clinton Quotes"The United States is committed to actively pursuing a strong and robust treaty that contains the highest possible, legally binding standards for the international transfer of conventional weapons. We look forward to this negotiation as the continuation of the process that began in the UN with the 2008 UN Group of Governmental Experts on the ATT and continued with the 2009 UN Open-Ended Working Group on ATT." |
Donald Trump Quotes2016 - Official Website
"The Second Amendment guarantees a fundamental right that belongs to all law-abiding Americans. The Constitution doesn’t create that right – it ensures that the government can’t take it away. Our Founding Fathers knew, and our Supreme Court has upheld, that the Second Amendment’s purpose is to guarantee our right to defend ourselves and our families. This is about self-defense, plain and simple." |