To protect the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution.

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

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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