The UN Small Arms treaty is a red herring issue: The folks who start this stuff are counting on the fact that many gunowners will react to threats to their Second Amendment rights, real or imagined, without first vetting them.
No UN treaty trumps the US Constitution. The SCOTUS ruled so in 1957. Read Reid Vs. Covert:
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/htm...4_0001_ZO.html
It is the policy of the UN not to interfere with the rights of gunowners in member countries. It says so in the proposed Treaty outline:
http://www.disarm.emb-japan.go.jp/st...t/N0958107.pdf
Read the last two paragraphs on the first page.
Quote:
Acknowledging also the right of States to regulate internal transfers of arms and national ownership, including through national constitutional protections on private ownership, exclusively within their territory…