[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1488 Introduced in Senate (IS)]








109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1488

   To withhold funding from the United Nations if the United Nations 
      abridges the rights provided by the Second Amendment to the 
                 Constitution, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 26, 2005

Mr. Vitter (for himself, Mr. Coburn, Mr. Inhofe, Mr. Crapo, Mr. Thune, 
   Mr. Lott, Mr. Bunning, Mr. Burns, and Mr. Ensign) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                           Foreign Relations

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                                 A BILL


 
   To withhold funding from the United Nations if the United Nations 
      abridges the rights provided by the Second Amendment to the 
                 Constitution, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Second Amendment Protection Act of 
2005''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress makes the following findings:
            (1) The United States is steadfast in its commitment to the 
        Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, 
        which provides that the right of the people to keep and bear 
        arms shall not be infringed.
            (2) The United Nations Program of Action to Prevent, Combat 
        and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons 
        in All Its Aspects calls for actions that could abridge the 
        Second Amendment rights of individuals in the United States, 
        including through the establishment of--
                    (A) a comprehensive program for worldwide gun 
                control;
                    (B) an international tracking certificate which 
                would be used to ensure United Nations monitoring 
                control over the export, import, transit, stocking, and 
                storage of legal small arms and light weapons;
                    (C) worldwide record keeping, for an indefinite 
                amount of time, on the manufacture, holding, and 
                transfer of small arms and light weapons; and
                    (D) national registries and tracking lists of all 
                legal firearms.
            (3) The United Nations has encouraged member states of the 
        United Nations to integrate measures to control ammunition with 
        regard to small arms, contrary to the rights guaranteed to 
        citizens of the United States under the Second Amendment, and 
        some member states have expressed a desire to tax international 
        arms sales and for a total ban on certain types of firearms.

SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS.

    It is the sense of Congress that the United States should not 
provide financial support to international entities that abridge the 
constitutionally protected rights of law-abiding citizens of the United 
States to keep and bear arms.

SEC. 4. LIMITATION ON UNITED NATIONS FUNDING.

    (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
United States may not provide any funding to the United Nations for a 
fiscal year unless, prior to the last day of the preceding fiscal year, 
the President makes the certification described in this subsection (b).
    (b) Certification.--The certification referred to in subsection (a) 
is a certification submitted to Congress by the President that states 
that the United Nations has not taken action to restrict, attempt to 
restrict, or otherwise adversely infringe upon the rights of 
individuals in the United States to possess a firearm or ammunition, 
including the imposition of a tax that will interfere with the right to 
own a firearm or ammunition.
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