(Letter to the Editor - Photo Illustration - MetroCreativeConnection)

Just back from Geneva, Switzerland, for the United Nations 11th annual conference of state parties, Dudley Brown, the president of the National Association for Gun Rights (NAGR) sat through a representative of communist China attacking Americans for refusing to roll over and ratify the U.N. Small Arms Trade Treaty.

When his turn to speak came, Dudley Brown replied “Countries that make vocal opponents disappear have little room to lecture us on human rights.”

NAGR staff has uncovered a massive money laundering scheme, in which the U.S. State Department is secretly funding the U.N.’s SATT implementation, spending hundreds of millions of dollars each year to do so.

Pursuant to federal laws, on the books since 2013, no taxpayer money may be used to implement the treaty, without senate ratification, which has not stopped State Department gun grabbers from getting around the First Amendment by funding non-governmental organizations to “combat digital disinformation” to implement a massive money-laundering scheme to force the UNSATT “down our throats.”

These bureaucrats are using the International Committee of the Red Cross, among other NGOs, pouring hundreds of millions of dollars yearly into an organization, which brags about continuing “to promote the ratification and implementation of the arms trade treaty in bilateral dialogue with several states.” Thus, the “deep state” is secretly scheming with U.N. bureaucrats and NGOs to flout U.S. law and Donald Trump’s presidency.

The good news is Congress has begun work on Trump’s next “Big Beautiful Bill,” setting the federal government’s tax and spending policies for the next fiscal year, giving us the chance to end the State Department’s funding of any organization which supports implementation of the UNSATT, including the Red Cross.

Every country ratifying the UNSATT, including the U.S., would be required to establish a “national control system,” in other words, gun registration — the first step toward outright gun confiscation.

All firearms manufacturers seeking to export their firearms would be required to receive permission from the U.N. and report on how they believe the guns they sell would be used. After all, the U.N. knows guns possessed by the “wrong” people would pose a threat to them imposing their one-world socialist government around the globe.

All treaty countries must allow their firearm manufacturers to be sued for crimes committed with their products.

Everyone should contact their representatives in Washington and demand no funding for NGOs, who support ratification of the UNSATT, period.

Steve Wolverton

Parkersburg