There seems little doubt that the next big gun rights battle will be on the global front, thanks to efforts by anti-gun governments to not only disarm their citizens, but also lobby at the United Nations to compel the U.S. government to ratchet down on our gun rights.
Well, good luck with that! There are an estimated 80-90 million gun owners in this country, and they own an estimated 200-250 million firearms. All of these guns that the gun control fanatics don’t want us to have; we’ve already got them.
Events over the past decade have emphasized the need to protect the individual’s rights to defend oneself and one’s family against grave threats, including crime, civil unrest and terrorism. IAPCAR is dedicated to preserving these human rights.
Into this fray has stepped a new organization with strong involvement from two Bellevue-based groups, the Second Amendment Foundation and Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. They are on the ground floor in the formation of the International Association for the Protection of Civilian Arms Rights (IAPCAR), with offices soon to be located in Washington, D.C. and Vienna, Austria.
A full report will appear in an upcoming issue of Gun Week, where I am senior editor.
SAF Executive Vice President Alan Gottlieb, who also chairs the CCRKBA, returned this week from an IAPCAR gathering in Nuremberg, Germany and will be back in Europe next month for another round of meetings. Already on board are firearms organizations and activists from Sweden, Norway, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, Italy and the United States. Joining soon will be groups from The Philippines, Switzerland, Belgium, Argentina, Finland, India, Israel, Greece, South Africa, and Australia.
While the disarmament agenda is ineffectual at suppressing the black market, it is capable of inflicting tremendous collateral damage on human rights. Perhaps in no nation is the devastation to society caused by restrictive firearm laws more evident than in Jamaica.12 The Jamaica of today is no longer an idyllic island paradise. Instead, it is a hellhole caught in the terminal stage of what some euphemistically call “gun control.†Much of the loss of human rights can be traced directly to the Gun Court Act of 1974, which imposed national gun prohibition."-From: 'Gun Ownership and Human Rights'
Work on this alliance has been quietly progressing for some time. IAPCAR sees its primary task as providing a counter to the established International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA), a virulently anti-gun group that has been actively lobbying the United Nations with an extremist gun control agenda. Hardly by coincidence, some of the world's most abusive regimes in terms of human rights are also those that have the strictest gun control agenda.
Gottlieb is visibly delighted to be part of this, especially since this is not merely a sport shooting group, but an organization devoted to self-defense, which IAPCAR notes is “a human right.†In many countries, and even here in the USA, a lot of gun prohibitionists disdain armed self-defense, which brings us around to the next item.
