[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3125 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3125

   To protect the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 17, 2003

 Mr. Paul (for himself, Mr. Barrett of South Carolina, Mr. Bartlett of 
 Maryland, Mr. Duncan, Mr. Goode, Mr. Franks of Arizona, Mr. Sessions, 
    Mr. Feeney, Mr. Miller of Florida, Mr. Otter, and Mr. Norwood) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                        International Relations

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                                 A BILL


 
   To protect the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Right to Keep and Bear Arms Act of 
2003''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds that--
            (1) over the past decade, the United Nations has 
        demonstrated a consistent animus to the Second Amendment to the 
        United States Constitution and to the right to keep and bear 
        arms;
            (2) in June, 2003, the United Nations sponsored a ``Week of 
        Action Against Small Arms'';
            (3) French President Jacques Chirac and the socialist 
        president of Brazil, Luiz Lula da Silva, both advocate the 
        imposition of a United Nations tax on firearms for various 
        utopian purposes;
            (4) 2,000,000 largely unarmed people are killed yearly by 
        oppressive genocidal governments throughout the world; and
            (5) ironically, at the same time the United Nations was 
        working to prohibit Americans from exercising their Second 
        Amendment rights to defend themselves, the Bureau of Alcohol, 
        Tobacco and Firearms was called to investigate the illegal 
        possession of submachine guns by bodyguards to Secretary 
        General of the United Nations Kofi Annan.

SEC. 3. RESTRICTION ON FUNDS.

    No funds appropriated pursuant to any provision of law may be used 
for the promotion of any agreement, treaty, conference, document, or 
other action by the United Nations, or any instrumentality thereof, 
which advocates the taxation of firearms or any other measure which 
would constitute any abrogation of rights under the Second Amendment to 
the United States Constitution.

SEC. 4. SENSE OF CONGRESS.

    It is the sense of the Congress that proposals to tax or otherwise 
limit rights under the Second Amendment to the United States 
Constitution are reprehensible and deserving of condemnation.

SEC. 5. DEFINITION.

    For purposes of this Act, the term ``promotion'' means any action 
undertaken by any official of the United States Government to advance 
the adoption, by the United States or any other country, of any 
agreement or treaty referred to in section 3, or to support any 
conference, document, or other action referred to in section 3, 
including, but not limited to, signing any such written instrument by 
the United States.
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