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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. 

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 

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.

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Second Amendment 

5 Protection Act of 2005’’. 

6 SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 

7 Congress makes the following findings: 
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1 (1) The United States is steadfast in its com2 mitment to the Second Amendment to the Constitu3 tion of the United States, which provides that the 

4 right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not 

5 be infringed. 

6 (2) The United Nations Program of Action to 

7 Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in 

8 Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects 

9 calls for actions that could abridge the Second 

10 Amendment rights of individuals in the United 

11 States, including through the establishment of— 

12 (A) a comprehensive program for world13 wide gun control; 

14 (B) an international tracking certificate 

15 which would be used to ensure United Nations 

16 monitoring control over the export, import, 

17 transit, stocking, and storage of legal small 

18 arms and light weapons; 

19 (C) worldwide record keeping, for an in20 definite amount of time, on the manufacture, 

21 holding, and transfer of small arms and light 

22 weapons; and 

23 (D) national registries and tracking lists of 

24 all legal firearms. 
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1 (3) The United Nations has encouraged mem2 ber states of the United Nations to integrate meas3 ures to control ammunition with regard to small 

4 arms, contrary to the rights guaranteed to citizens 

5 of the United States under the Second Amendment, 

6 and some member states have expressed a desire to 

7 tax international arms sales and for a total ban on 

8 certain types of firearms. 

9 SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 

10 It is the sense of Congress that the United States 

11 should not provide financial support to international enti12 ties that abridge the constitutionally protected rights of 

13 law-abiding citizens of the United States to keep and bear 

14 arms. 

15 SEC. 4. LIMITATION ON UNITED NATIONS FUNDING. 

16 (a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other provi17 sion of law, the United States may not provide any fund18 ing to the United Nations for a fiscal year unless, prior 

19 to the last day of the preceding fiscal year, the President 

20 makes the certification described in this subsection (b). 

21 (b) CERTIFICATION.—The certification referred to in 

22 subsection (a) is a certification submitted to Congress by 

23 the President that states that the United Nations has not 

24 taken action to restrict, attempt to restrict, or otherwise 

25 adversely infringe upon the rights of individuals in the 
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1 United States to possess a firearm or ammunition, includ2 ing the imposition of a tax that will interfere with the right 

3 to own a firearm or ammunition.

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