WHY GUN CONTROL ?...

Highball

Why Gun Control?DO YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY PUBLIC OFFICIALSARE VOTING TO TAKE AWAY YOUR FIREARMS?If you want to know why, go to your local library, no matter where you live in the United States. Tell the librarian to show you where the United States Code books are shelved. There are 25 books in the set. They are reddish-brown in color. They are printed by the Government Printing Office in Washington, DC. These hard-covered books are printed every 8-10 years. They are updated with annual soft-back supplements each year until a new hard-cover issue comes out. At the present time the 1988 hardbacks are on library shelves. OPEN VOLUME 9. The page numbers are in the center near the middle binding. The section numbers are along the edges. TURN TO PAGE 651. Here you will find Public Law 87-297 which calls for the United States to eliminate its armed forces. This law was signed for the United States in 1961. John F. Kennedy signed it and every president since has worked to enact its provisions. The government knows you will not approve which is why they want to take away your firearms. (This is Title 22 USC section 2551) TURN TO PAGE 652. Here you will find the definition of what the government means by "disarmament." The disarmament calls for the elimination of our armed forces. It also calls for the elimination of weapons of all kinds. (This is Title 22 USC 2552 (a)). TURN TO PAGE 654. Here you will find it stated as item (a) "control, reduction and elimination of armed forces..." and as Item (d) "...Elimination of armed forces...". What you need to know is that your armed forces are being eliminated from national control which, in turn, wipes out our sovereignty as a nation. In two stages, we will have no more army, no more navy, no more air force. In the third stage, we shall have a "zero" military. Before Stage I closes, all citizen owned guns will be banned. (This is Title 22 USC Section 2571 (a). Public Law 87-297 is further explained in the State Department Document, called Publication 7277. Your librarian can also furnish you a copy. Ask the librarian to get you a copy of "The Blue Print for the Peace Race." It is a 35 page booklet printed by the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency as Publication No. 4 - General Series 3 - Released May, 1962. Publication No. 4 is the unabridged version of State Department Document 7277. Both of these booklets explain how our military is to be reduced to 2.1 million men. China and the Soviets are to be reduced to that level also. At this point, we are at Stage I at which time we are to transfer (on a permanent basis) one-half of our armed forces to be merged with the Russian and Chinese armies. In Stage II the remaining one-half of our armed forces is then turned over to this same Security Council of the United Nations. The person in charge of the merged armies must, by agreement, always be a Russian. The world's smaller nations turn 100% of their armies over to the same under-secretary of the Security, Council in Stage II. President George Bush and Admiral Wm. J. Crowe [have refered] to this process as being "in transition." TURN TO PAGE 655. On this page in Volume 9 of the United States Code, read "Policy Formation." The directives there (written in 1963 to pacify objectors) are supposedly to restrain anyone fromdisarmament, reducing or limiting our armaments, or taking guns away from the people unless it is pursuant to the treaty-making power of the president, or if it is authorized by further legislation by the Congress. (This is title 22, Section 2573.) Every couple of years the House of Representatives votes to appropriate funds for this on-going program. Since P.L. 87-297 was first passed into law in 1961, there have been 18 updates to it - all bad - with no deletions of these issues I lay before you now. The Congress knows that the plan includes the policing of the United States by foreign troops. (The world army they are forming.) The Congress is allowing our military bases to beclosed down, except for those which will be used by the world army. You will find that plan in Publication 7277 and in "The Blueprint for the Peace Race." If the president and Congress can promote a "Constitutional Convention" you will find yourself with two new constitutions(communist in structure) which in one states in Article VIII, Section 12: "No person shall bear arms or possess lethal weapons except the police and members of the armed forces...." TheCongress has praised these documents and is on record in Senatehearings seeking ways to install these constitutions. Ask yourlibrarian for "Revision of the United Nations Charter - Hearings Before a Subcommittee (Foreign Relations) Feb. 2-20, 1950 U.S.Government Printing Office." Nothing has changed since. Theyare still viable. End of Second Amendment Committee written materialThe ultimate goal to be reached in Stage III of the disarmament process is to "proceed to a point where no state [nation] would have the military power to challenge the progressively strengthened U.N. Peace Force..." Anyone who doubts the truthfulness of what has been presented here is free to go to the library and go through the steps which have been outlined above. While you are at it, look up PublicLaw 101-216. State Department Publication 7277 is available in electronic form as file PUB_7277.ZIP on at least the following bulletin boards: Paul Revere - San Jose (408) 947-7800 or (408) 279-0872The Rising Storm (408) 739-8693If in future years your children or grandchildren ask why you allowed their freedom to slip through your fingers, no one who has read this material will be able to say; "if only I had known." Now that you have read this, you know. The questionis; what are you going to do about it? Material printed above was taken from the following website, and I suggest you give it a quick read.Go to: http://www.kobres.com/disarm.html

TLynn

You know that's pretty damn scary Highball.

Free N TX

Kinda makes you rethink who and why Kennedy was assinated, doesn't it! It seems that maybe some of the right people found out about this and decided to take action. Could it be they were of the notion that if the prez was eliminated then they could get someone to reverse the actions of the president, or possibly he was going to renig on the deal and was taken out before he could do anything about it???? Definately a very scary thought. Especially since no one has said anything about it publicly (to my knowledge anyway), or tried to find a way to reverse it.Question: Since the Soviet Union has been dissolved....who, and from which Soviet state, would, be the chosen Russian leader of the army?? After all just about all of the Russian states are fighting amoungst themselves for power and leadership over each other..... How are we going to be able to stop this from happening????????

beachmaster73

Every night you guys go to bed thank God that Condolezza Rice sits at the right hand of the President. She know more about the Soviet Union and Russia's weapons than any other person in our country. She was a voice in the wilderness during the Klinton era and largely dismissed by them. That she now sits as the National Security Advisor to President Bush tells me that he at least has his head screwed on correctly and has the best person in the country as National Security Advisor. In my view she isn't going to permit anyone to get an advantage on the US....and if someone tries she will be loud and clear in her warnings to the President and all of her fellow Americans. Beach

opentop

Alright, wait just a minute. Is it really necessary to spread such misinformation?I just read US Code, Title 22, Sub Chapters I through 5. Sub Chapter II has been repealed by the way.Title 22 is entirely about Foreign Relations and Intercourse, and DOES NOT MENTION privately owned firearms owned by American Citizens.Title 22, Chapter 35, Sub Chapter I, Sec 2551 regards working toward "a world which is free from the scourge of war and the dangers and burdens of armaments; in which the use of force has been SUBORDINATED to the rule of law". It discusses the "preparation" of the US via the Sec. of State and the President for "participation" in international negotiations for arms control, non proliferation and disarmament.Sec. 2552 is definitions for the above and does not mention privately owned firearms NOR the complete "elimination" of US Armed Forces.Sec. 2571 regards RESEARCH into the possibilities of the EVENTUAL POSSIBILITY of the eliminiation of the NEED for armed forces.HERE IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PART:Sec. 2573 EXPLICITLY STATES; "NO action shall be taken pursuant to this chapter or ANY OTHER ACT that would obligate the United States to reduce or limit the Armed Forces or armaments of the United States in a militarily significant manner, except pursuant to the treaty-making power of the President set forth in Article II, Section 2, Clause 2 of the Constitution or unless authorized by the enactment of further affirmative legislation by the Congress of the United States".Title 22 was written and passed to give the Administrative branch the authority to engage in Arms Control discussions and treaty negotiations with foreign countries and also to more specifically lay out to what extent any US Administration's powers to do so would be. As you can see in Section 2573, the authors of this law were wise enough to include a section which would limit an administration's ability to "give away the store" so to speak. BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, I have read this whole section of the code mentioned by highball, and I REPEAT, THERE IS NO MENTION of eliminating the private ownership of legally obtained firearms, or any other civil gun control concepts. We really do not need "conspiracy theories", they are never productive. Seek the facts, speak the truth! That is the American way!

JudgeColt

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

Highball

I have here in my hands a little booklet entitled " Freedom From War' The United States Program For General and Complete Disarmament in a Peaceful World...Dept.of State Publication 7277 Released Sept.1961 I quote at random....The over-all goal of the U.S. is...a world which has achieved general and complete disarmament under effective international control;and a world in which adjustment to change takes place in accordance with the principles of the United Nations... The disbanding of all national armed forces and the prohibition of their reestabishment in any form whatsoever... The elimination from national arsenals of all armaments... States would maintain only those forces,non-nuclear ,,,,,for the purposes of internal order.. THE MANUFACTURE of armaments would be prohibited except for those of agreed types and quantities to be used by the U.N. Peace Force and those required to maintain internal order.All other armaments would be destroyed.. I admit that I am no deep researcher into fedgov.publications.So I looked at their own shortform..the above booklet.You prove its wrong..I change my mind. I intend to e-mail Opentop's post to the website I got the info from..We shall see. ONE more thing,Opentop...I think from reading your posts,you are more then qualified to read and understand the Constitution....What makes you qualified to read and understand the tortured,twisted,sewer of legelese that passes for laws today ? I am not being a smarta**...I think that is how they pull huge chuncks of freedom from us....[This message has been edited by Highball (edited 09-27-2001).]

opentop

Well, I won't say it doesn't exist, because I suppose it could, but a search of the Department Of State document archive, the National Archive and Records Administration, Freedom Of Information Act Electronic Reading Room, U.S. Government Printing Office records and the University Of Illinois Government Depository Library reveals no document or publication by the U.S. State Dept. called "publication 7277", "document 7277" or "Freedom From War". Further, there has never been U.S. Government office called the "Office Of Public Services", which is often sited as a "source" for this mysterious document of dubious origin. The true origin of the so called "State Department Publication 7277 - Freedom From War" document is more likely in the imagination of one John F. McManus who writes for the "The New American" which is a publication of the John Birch Society. A greater bunch of nuts and wackos I've never heard of, by the way. One big reason I doubt the veracity of "document 7277" is that the U.S. Department Of State has never numbered it's documents in such a manner. State Department documents are named by the part of U.S. Code which governs them, such as Title 22, which part it regards, such as 121 which is the United States Munitions List and it's sub-directory such as 1 - General Information: The United State Munitions List, 2 - Interpretations of the U.S. Munitions List and the Missle Technology Control Regime Anex, etc. As an example I present State Department document 22.121.9 Firearms:Title 22 - Foreign RelationsChapter I - Department Of StatePart 121 - The United States Munitions ListSection 121.9 - Firearms(a) Category I includes revolvers, pistols, rifles, carbines, fully automatic rifles, submachine guns, machine pistols and machine guns to .50caliber inclusive. It includes combat shotguns. IT EXCLUDES shotguns with barrels over 18", BB and pelet guns and muzzle loading (black powder) firearms.NO WHERE IN THE DOCUMENT does it discuss gun control, arms control or disarmament or any other ACTION. It is simply a list of U.S. State Department definitions and covers everything from military aircraft (121.1), military explosives (121.12) through the missle technology control regime anex (121.16 which is a document that lays out definitions of items relating to efforts to curb the international proliferation of weapons of mass destruction). A further reason I doubt the so called "document 7277" as having orginated at the State Department is this idea that it supposedly covers the end of production, sales and distribution of all armaments including firearms. The duties and the structure of the DOS is laid out in Title 22 of U.S Code. It is strictly limited to policy implementation of United States Foreign Policy and has no jurisdiction whatever within the U.S. As I mentioned earlier. Title 22, Chapter 35, Sub-chapter III, Section 2571, outlines international disarmament and arms control objectives as regards negotiation with other nations or the implemention of actions in concert with the international community via the UN, such as those taken by UN Resolutions 1060, 1115, 1134, 1137, 1154, 1194 and 1205 imposed against Iraq as regards UNSCOM inspection and destruction of Iraq's programs to develope weapons of mass destruction. One final note: What makes me qualified to read and understand....? Maybe the fact that I have a Masters Degree in Historiography, which is the principles, theories and methodology of historical research and presentation.

opentop

Now, while this will be totally boring to read, here in it's entirety is Title 22 of the United States Code:United States Code Title 22 - Foreign Relation & Intercourse Chapter 35 - Arms Control & Disarmament Subchapter I - General ProvisionsSec. 2551. Congressional Statement of PurposeAn ultimate goal of the United States is a world which is free from the scourge of war and the dangers and burdens of armaments; in which the use of force has been subordinated to the rule of law; and in which international adjustments to a changing world are achieved peacefully. It is the purpose of this chapter to provide impetus toward this goal by addressing the problem of reduction and control of armaments looking toward ultimate world disarmament. The Secretary of State must have the capacity to provide the essential scientific, economic, political, military, psychological, and technological information upon which realistic arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament policy must be based. The Secretary shall have the authority, under the direction of the President, to carry out the following primary functions: (1) The preparation for and management of United States participation in international negotiations and implementation fora in the arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament field. (2) The conduct, support, and coordination of research for arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament policy formulation. (3) The preparation for, operation of, or direction of, United States participation in such control systems as may become part of United States arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament activities. (4) The dissemination and coordination of public information concerning arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament. Sec. 2552. DefinitionsAs used in this chapter - (a) The terms ''arms control'' and ''disarmament'' mean the identification, verification, inspection, limitation, control, reduction, or elimination, of armed forces and armaments of all kinds under international agreement including the necessary steps taken under such an agreement to establish an effective system of international control, or to create and strengthen international organizations for the maintenance of peace. (b) The term ''Government agency'' means any executive department, commission, agency, independent establishment, corporation wholly or partly owned by the United States which is an instrumentality of the United States, or any board, bureau, division, service, office, officer, authority, administration, or other establishment in the executive branch of Government. Subchapter II - Special Representatives & Visiting ScholarsSec.(s) 2561 to 2566 RepealedSec. 2567 Presidential Special RepresentativesThe President may appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, Special Representatives of the President for arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament matters. Each Presidential Special Representative shall hold the rank of ambassador. Presidential Special Representatives appointed under this section shall perform their duties and exercise their powers under the direction of the President and the Secretary of State. The Department of State shall be the Government agency responsible for providing administrative support, including funding, staff, and office space, to all Presidential Special Representatives. Sec. 2568 Program for visiting scholars A program for visiting scholars in the fields of arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament shall be established by the Secretary of State in order to obtain the services of scholars from the faculties of recognized institutions of higher learning. The purpose of the program will be to give specialists in the physical sciences and other disciplines relevant to the Department of State's activities an opportunity for active participation in the arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament activities of the Department of State and to gain for the Department of State the perspective and expertise such persons can offer. Each fellow in the program shall be appointed for a term of one year, except that such term may be extended for a 1-year period.Subchapter III - FunctionsThe Secretary of State is authorized and directed to exercise his powers in this subchapter in such manner as to ensure the acquisition of a fund of theoretical and practical knowledge concerning disarmament and nonproliferation. To this end, the Secretary of State is authorized and directed, under the direction of the President, (1) to ensure the conduct of research, development, and other studies in the fields of arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament; (2) to make arrangements (including contracts, agreements, and grants) for the conduct of research, development, and other studies in the fields of arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament by private or public institutions or persons; and (3) to coordinate the research, development, and other studies conducted in the fields of arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament by or for other Government agencies. In carrying out his responsibilities under this chapter, the Secretary of State shall, to the maximum extent feasible, make full use of available facilities, Government and private. The authority of the Secretary under this chapter with respect to research, development, and other studies concerning arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament shall be limited to participation in the following: (a) Control, reduction and elimination of armed forces and armaments the detection, identification, inspection, monitoring, limitation, reduction, control, and elimination of armed forces and armaments, including thermonuclear, nuclear, missile, conventional, bacteriological, chemical, and radiological weapons: (b) Weapon detection and identification tests the techniques and systems of detecting, identifying, inspecting, and monitoring of tests of nuclear, thermonuclear, and other weapons; (c) Analysis of national budgets and economic indicators the analysis of national budgets, levels of industrial production, and economic indicators to determine the amounts spent by various countries for armaments [1] and of all aspects of anti-satellite activities; (d) Space, earth's surface and underwater regions the control, reduction, and elimination of armed forces and armaments in space, in areas on and beneath the earth's surface, and in underwater regions; (e) Structure and operation of international control the structure and operation of international control and other organizations useful for arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament; (f) Training of control system personnel the training of scientists, technicians, and other personnel for manning the control systems which may be created by international arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament agreements; (g) Danger of war from accident, miscalculation, or surprise attack the reduction and elimination of the danger of war resulting from accident, miscalculation, or possible surprise attack, including (but not limited to) improvements in the methods of communications between nations; (h) Economic and political consequences of disarmament the economic and political consequences of arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament, including the problems of readjustment arising in industry and the reallocation of national resources; (i) Disarmament implications of foreign and national security policies of United States the arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament implications of foreign and national security policies of the United States with a view to a better understanding of the significance of such policies for the achievement of arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament; (j) National security and foreign policy implications of disarmament the national security and foreign policy implications of arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament proposals with a view to a better understanding of the effect of such proposals upon national security and foreign policy; (k) Methods for maintenance of peace and security during stages of disarmament methods for the maintenance of peace and security during different stages of arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament; (l) War prevention factors the scientific, economic, political, legal, social, psychological, military, and technological factors related to the prevention of war with a view to a better understanding of how the basic structure of a lasting peace may be established; and (m) Other related problems such related problems as the Secretary of State may determine to be in need of research, development, or study in order to carry out the provisions of this chapter. Sec. 2572. Patents; availability to general public; protection of background rights All research within the United States contracted for, sponsored, cosponsored, or authorized under authority of this chapter, shall be provided for in such manner that all information as to uses, products, processes, patents, and other developments resulting from such research developed by Government expenditure will (with such exceptions and limitations, if any, as the Secretary of State may find to be necessary in the public interest) be available to the general public. This section shall not be so construed as to deprive the owner of any background patent relating thereto of such rights as he may have thereunder. Sec. 2573. Policy Formulation The Secretary of State shall prepare for the President, and the heads of such other Government agencies as the President may determine, recommendations and advice concerning United States arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament policy. (b) Prohibition No action shall be taken pursuant to this chapter or any other Act that would obligate the United States to reduce or limit the Armed Forces or armaments of the United States in a militarily significant manner, except pursuant to the treaty-making power of the President set forth in Article II, Section 2, Clause 2 of the Constitution or unless authorized by the enactment of further affirmative legislation by the Congress of the United States. (c) Statutory construction Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed to authorize any policy or action by any Government agency which would interfere with, restrict, or prohibit the acquisition, possession, or use of firearms by an individual for the lawful purpose of personal defense, sport, recreation, education, or training. Sec. 2574. Negotiation management(a) Responsibilities The Secretary of State, under the direction of the President, shall have primary responsibility for the preparation, conduct, and management of United States participation in all international negotiations and implementation fora in the field of arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament. In furtherance of these responsibilities, Special Representatives of the President appointed pursuant to section 2567 of this title, shall, as directed by the President, serve as United States Government representatives to international organizations, conferences, and activities relating to the field of nonproliferation, such as the preparations for and conduct of the review relating to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. (b) Authority The Secretary of State is authorized - (1) to formulate plans and make preparations for the establishment, operation, and funding of inspections and control systems which may become part of the United States arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament activities; and (2) as authorized by law, to put into effect, direct, or otherwise assume United States responsibility for such systems. Sec. 2575. RepealedSec. 2576. Arms control informationIn order to assist the Secretary of State in the performance of his duties with respect to arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament policy and negotiations, any Government agency preparing any legislative or budgetary proposal for - (1) any program of research, development, testing, engineering, construction, deployment, or modernization with respect to nuclear armaments, nuclear implements of war, military facilities or military vehicles designed or intended primarily for the delivery of nuclear weapons, (2) any program of research, development, testing, engineering, construction, deployment, or modernization with respect to armaments, ammunition, implements of war, or military facilities, having - (A) an estimated total program cost in excess of $250,000,000, or (B) an estimated annual program cost in excess of $50,000,000, or (3) any other program involving technology with potential military application or weapons systems which such Government agency or the Secretary of State believes may have a significant impact on arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament policy or negotiations, shall, on a continuing basis, provide the Secretary of State with full and timely access to detailed information with respect to the nature, scope, and purpose of such proposal. Sec. 2577. Verification of compliance(a) In general In order to ensure that arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament agreements can be verified, the Secretary of State shall report to Congress, on a timely basis, or upon request by an appropriate committee of the Congress - (1) in the case of any arms control, nonproliferation, or disarmament agreement that has been concluded by the United States, the determination of the Secretary of State as to the degree to which the components of such agreement can be verified; (2) in the case of any arms control, nonproliferation, or disarmament agreement that has entered into force, any significant degradation or alteration in the capacity of the United States to verify compliance of the components of such agreement; (3) the amount and percentage of research funds expended by the Department of State for the purpose of analyzing issues relating to arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament verification; and (4) the number of professional personnel assigned to arms control verification on a full-time basis by each Government agency. (b) Assessments upon request Upon the request of the chairman or ranking minority member of the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate or the Committee on International Relations of the House of Representatives, in case of an arms control, nonproliferation, or disarmament proposal presented to a foreign country by the United States or presented to the United States by a foreign country, the Secretary of State shall submit a report to the Committee on the degree to which elements of the proposal are capable of being verified. (c) Standard for verification of compliance In making determinations under paragraphs (1) and (2) of subsection (a) of this section, the Secretary of State shall assume that all measures of concealment not expressly prohibited could be employed and that standard practices could be altered so as to impede verification. (d) Rule of construction Except as otherwise provided for by law, nothing in this section may be construed as requiring the disclosure of sensitive information relating to intelligence sources or methods or persons employed in the verification of compliance with arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament agreements. Sec. 2577a. Arms control verificationa) Establishment of working group The President should establish a working group - (1) to examine verification approaches to a strategic arms reduction agreement and other arms control agreements; and (2) to assess the relevance for such agreements of the verification provisions of the Treaty Between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (signed at Washington, December 8, 1987). (b) Information and data base (1) The Agency shall allocate sufficient resources to develop and maintain a comprehensive information and data base on verification concepts, research, technologies, and systems. The Agency shall collect, maintain, analyze, and disseminate information pertaining to arms control verification and monitoring, including information regarding - (A) all current United States bilateral and multilateral arms treaties; and (B) proposed, prospective, and potential bilateral or multilateral arms treaties in the areas of nuclear, conventional, chemical, and space weapons. (2) The Agency shall seek to improve United States verification and monitoring activities through the monitoring and support of relevant research and analysis. (3) The Agency shall provide detailed information on the activities pursuant to this section in its annual report to the Congress. Sec. 2578. Negotiating recordsa) Preparation of records The Secretary of State shall establish and maintain records for each arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament agreement to which the United States is a party and which was under negotiation or in force on or after January 1, 1990, which shall include classified and unclassified materials such as instructions and guidance, position papers, reporting cables and memoranda of conversation, working papers, draft texts of the agreement, diplomatic notes, notes verbal, and other internal and external correspondence. (b) Negotiating and implementation records In particular, the Secretary of State shall establish and maintain a negotiating and implementation record for each such agreement, which shall be comprehensive and detailed, and shall document all communications between the parties with respect to such agreement. Such records shall be maintained both in hard copy and magnetic media. Sec. 2579. Comprehensive compilation of arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament studiesPursuant to his responsibilities under section 2571 of this title, and in order to enhance Congressional and public understanding of arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament issues, the Director shall provide to the Congress not later than June 30 of each year a report setting forth - (1) a comprehensive list of studies relating to arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament issues concluded during the previous calendar year by government agencies or for government agencies by private or public institutions or persons; and (2) a brief description of each such study. This report shall be unclassified, with a classified addendum if necessary. Subchapter IV - Additional General ProvisionsSec. 2581. General Authority of Secretary of StateIn addition to any authorities otherwise available, the Secretary of State in the performance of functions under this chapter is authorized to - (a) Utilization of other Federal agencies; transfers of supplies, equipment, and surplus property utilize or employ the services, personnel, equipment, or facilities of any other Government agency, with the consent of the agency concerned, to perform such functions on behalf of the Department of State as may appear desirable. Any Government agency is authorized, not withstanding any other provision of law, to transfer to or to receive from the Secretary of State, without reimbursement, supplies and equipment other than administrative supplies or equipment. Transfer or receipt of excess property shall be in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended (40 U.S.C. 471 et seq.); (b) Employment of personnel appoint and fix the compensation of employees possessing specialized technical expertise without regard to the provisions of title 5 governing appointments in the competitive service and the provisions of chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of such title relating to classification and General Schedule pay rates, if the Secretary of State ensures that - (1) any employee who is appointed under this subsection is not paid at a rate - (A) in excess of the rate payable for positions of equivalent difficulty or responsibility, or (B) exceeding the maximum rate payable for grade 15 of the General Schedule; and (2) the number of employees appointed under this subsection shall not exceed 10 percent of the Department of State's full-time-equivalent positions allocated to carry out the purpose of this chapter. [1] (c) Detail of other agency personnel without prejudice to status or advancement enter into agreements with other Government agencies, including the military departments through the Secretary of Defense, under which officers or employees of such agencies may be detailed to the Department of State for the performance of service pursuant to this chapter without prejudice to the status or advancement of such officers or employees within their own agencies; (d) Experts and consultants; stenographic reporting services; compensation and travel expenses; limitation on period of employment; renewal of employment contracts procure services of experts and consultants or organizations thereof, including stenographic reporting services, as authorized by section 3109 of title 5 and to pay in connection therewith travel expenses of individuals, including transportation and per diem in lieu of subsistence while away from their homes or regular places of business, as authorized by section 5703 of such title: Provided, That no such individual shall be employed for more than 130 days in any fiscal year unless the President certifies that employment of such individual in excess of such number of days is necessary in the national interest: And provided further, That such contracts may be renewed annually; (e) Employment of outstanding personnel employ individuals of outstanding ability without compensation in accordance with the provisions of section 2160(b) of the Appendix to title 50 and regulations issued thereunder; (f) Establishment of scientific and policy advisory board; compensation and expenses establish a scientific and policy advisory board to advise with and make recommendations to the Secretary of State on United States arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament policy and activities. A majority of the board shall be composed of individuals who have a demonstrated knowledge and technical expertise with respect to arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament matters and who have distinguished themselves in any of the fields of physics, chemistry, mathematics, biology, or engineering, including weapons engineering. The members of the board may receive the compensation and reimbursement for expenses specified for consultants by subsection (d) of this section; (g) Oaths and sworn statements administer oaths and take sworn statements in the course of an investigation made pursuant to the Secretary of State's responsibilities under this chapter; (h) Delegation of functions delegate, as appropriate, to the Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security or other officers of the Department of State, any authority conferred upon the Secretary of State by the provisions of this chapter; and (i) Rules and regulations make, promulgate, issue, rescind, and amend such rules and regulations as may be necessary or desirable to the exercise of any authority conferred upon the Secretary of State by the provisions of this chapter. Sec. 2584. Dual compensation exemption Members of advisory boards and consultants may serve as such without regard to any Federal law limiting the reemployment of retired officers or employees or governing the simultaneous receipt of compensation and retired pay or annuities, subject to section 5532 [1] of title 5. This section shall apply only to individuals carrying out activities related to arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament. Sec.(s) 2585 to 2593 RepealedSec. 2593a. Annual report to Congress(a) In general Not later than January 31 of each year, the President shall submit to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and to the chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate a report prepared by the Secretary of State with the concurrence of the Director of Central Intelligence and in consultation with the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Energy, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on the status of United States policy and actions with respect to arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament. Such report shall include - (1) a detailed statement concerning the arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament objectives of the executive branch of Government for the forthcoming year; (2) a detailed assessment of the status of any ongoing arms control, nonproliferation, or disarmament negotiations, including a comprehensive description of negotiations or other activities during the preceding year and an appraisal of the status and prospects for the forthcoming year; (3) a detailed assessment of adherence of the United States to obligations undertaken in arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament agreements, including information on the policies and organization of each relevant agency or department of the United States to ensure adherence to such obligations, a description of national security programs with a direct bearing on questions of adherence to such obligations and of steps being taken to ensure adherence, and a compilation of any substantive questions raised during the preceding year and any corrective action taken; (4) a detailed assessment of the adherence of other nations to obligations undertaken in all arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament agreements or commitments, including the Missile Technology Control Regime, to which the United States is a participating state, including information on actions taken by each nation with regard to the size, structure, and disposition of its military forces in order to comply with arms control, nonproliferation, or disarmament agreements or commitments, and shall include, in the case of each agreement or commitment about which compliance questions exist - (A) a description of each significant issue raised and efforts made and contemplated with the other participating state to seek resolution of the difficulty; (B) an assessment of damage, if any, to the United States security and other interests; and (C) recommendations as to any steps that should be considered to redress any damage to United States national security and to reduce compliance problems; (5) a discussion of any material noncompliance by foreign governments with their binding commitments to the United States with respect to the prevention of the spread of nuclear explosive devices (as defined in section 6305(4) of this title) by non-nuclear-weapon states (as defined in section 6305(5) of this title) or the acquisition by such states of unsafeguarded special nuclear material (as defined in section 6305(8) of this title), including - (A) a net assessment of the aggregate military significance of all such violations; (B) a statement of the compliance policy of the United States with respect to violations of those commitments; and (C) what actions, if any, the President has taken or proposes to take to bring any nation committing such a violation into compliance with those commitments; and (6) a specific identification, to the maximum extent practicable in unclassified form, of each and every question that exists with respect to compliance by other countries with arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament agreements with the United States. (b) Classification of report The report required by this section shall be submitted in unclassified form, with classified annexes, as appropriate. The portions of this report described in paragraphs (4) and (5) of subsection (a) of this section shall summarize in detail, at least in classified annexes, the information, analysis, and conclusions relevant to possible noncompliance by other nations that are provided by United States intelligence agencies. (c) Reporting consecutive noncompliance If the President in consecutive reports submitted to the Congress under this section reports that any designated nation is not in full compliance with its binding nonproliferation commitments to the United States, then the President shall include in the second such report an assessment of what actions are necessary to compensate for such violations. (d) Additional requirement Each report required by this section shall include a discussion of each significant issue described in subsection (a)(6) of this section that was contained in a previous report issued under this section during 1995, or after December 31, 1995, until the question or concern has been resolved and such resolution has been reported in detail to the appropriate committees of Congress (as defined in section 1102(1) of the Arms Control, Non-Proliferation, and Security Assistance Act of 1999Sec. 2593b. Public annual report on world military expenditures and arms transfersNot later than December 31 of each year, the Secretary of State shall publish an unclassified report on world military expenditures and arms transfers. Such report shall provide detailed, comprehensive, and statistical information regarding military expenditures, arms transfers, armed forces, and related economic data for each country of the world. In addition, such report shall include pertinent in-depth analyses as well as highlights with respect to arms transfers and proliferation trends and initiatives affecting such developments. Subchapter V - On-site Inspection ActivitiesSec. 2595. FindingsThe Congress finds that - (1) under this chapter, the Department of State is charged with the ''formulation and implementation of United States arms control and disarmament policy in a manner which will promote the national security''; (2) the On-Site Inspection Agency was established in 1988 pursuant to the INF Treaty to implement, on behalf of the United States, the inspection provisions of the INF Treaty; (3) on-site inspection activities under the INF Treaty include - (A) inspections in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, the Czech Republic, and Germany, (B) escort duties for teams visiting the United States and the Basing Countries, (C) establishment and operation of the Portal Monitoring Facility in Russia, and (D) support for the inspectors at the Portal Monitoring Facility in Utah; (4) the On-Site Inspection Agency has additional responsibilities to those specified in paragraph (3), including the monitoring of nuclear tests pursuant to the Threshold Test Ban Treaty and the Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty and the monitoring of the inspection provisions of such additional arms control agreements as the President may direct; (5) the personnel of the On-Site Inspection Agency include civilian technical experts, civilian support personnel, and members of the Armed Forces; and (6) the senior officials of the On-Site Inspection Agency include representatives from the Department of State. Sec. 2595a. Policy coordination concerning implementation of on-site inspection provisions(a) Interagency coordination OSIA should receive policy guidance which is formulated through an interagency mechanism established by the President. (b) Role of Secretary of Defense The Secretary of Defense should provide to OSIA appropriate policy guidance formulated through the interagency mechanism described in subsection (a) of this section and operational direction, consistent with section 113(b) of title 10. (c) Role of Secretary of State The Secretary of State should provide to the interagency mechanism described in subsection (a) of this section appropriate recommendations for policy guidance to OSIA consistent with sections 2551(3) and 2574(b) of this title. Sec. 2595b. RepealedSec. 2595b-1.Review of certain reprogramming notificationsnotification submitted to the Congress with respect to a proposed transfer, reprogramming, or reallocation of funds from or within the budget of OSIA shall also be submitted to the Committee on International Relations of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate, and shall be subject to review by those committees. Sec. 2595c. DefinitionsAs used in this subchapter - (1) the term ''INF Treaty'' means the Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (signed at Washington, December 8, 1987); (2) the term ''OSIA'' means the On-Site Inspection Agency established by the President, or such other agency as may be designated by the President to carry out the on-site inspection provisions of the INF Treaty; (3) the term ''Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty'' means the Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on Underground Nuclear Explosions for Peaceful Purposes (signed at Washington and Moscow, May 28, 1976); and (4) the term ''Threshold Test Ban Treaty'' means the Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Limitation of Underground Nuclear Weapons Tests (signed at Moscow, July 3, 1974). ___________________________________________There you go. Pretty boring stuff. But here is the key part which I reiterate in bold print, but you can scan back up if you don't believe I copied it right, it's in Sec. 2573. Policy Formulation, and is part (c), a "Statutory Construction", and I quote:"NOTHING CONTAINED IN THIS CHAPTER SHALL BE CONSTRUED TO AUTHORIZE ANY POLICY OR ACTION BY ANY GOVERNMENT AGENCY WHICH WOULD INTERFERE WITH, RESTRICT, OR PROHIBIT THE ACQUISITION, POSSESSION, OR USE OF FIREARMS BY AN INDIVIDUAL FOR THE LAWFUL PURPOSE OF PERSONAL DEFENSE, SPORT, RECREATION, EDUCATION, OR TRAINING."It doesn't get much more plain than that!

Highball

A most impressive bit of research.I will have to modify my stance on the matter. If you have a bit more patience..as they disarm the worlds armys,and reduce and disarm our own military..do you truly think you will be allowed to retain your arms ? Does any part of the above alarm you at all ? Once again,let me caution you on one word used in the above..."LAWFUL purpose of personal defense,sport...ect.." Lawful is what ever they want to make it.....

opentop

highball - Please don't get me wrong. I am not some "my country, right or wrong" guy who marches merrily along to what ever big bother tells us is true. I totally agree that we all need to be aware of and vigilantly guard against our government or any other power that would try to subvert the true meaning of The Constitution. My only reason for all of the above is simply that, if I'm not going to stand for distortion of the truth by those that would seek to deny us our rights, I don't ethically see how I can stand by when people who are supposedly "on our side" distort the truth as well. On the surface of it the "goal of the United States is a world free from the scourge of war..." seems simple enought and pretty much like a good idea but I agree with you that all too often the goodie goodie extreme liberals take those ideals too far and all that ends up happening is that such lofty goals are used as a basis for depriving honest law abiding citizens of our rights in a rush to impose such things on a world that just is not ready for complete disarmament and peace. They are the people who take the word "lawful" and try to distill it down to some very limited meaning, when in fact "lawful" means anything that isn't against the law. The way I look at it, as long as I'm not breaking the law, I can have as many of any kind of gun I want. So, in that way, I'd agree that you're right. What we need to do is work to make sure people don't use the lofty ideals expressed in such laws to achieve ends that aren't what was really intended when the law was written. I just hate to see people on the side of the Second Amendment make the mistake of distorting the truth to achieve our goals of maintaining our rights. The reason is because if and when the anti-gun crowd comes across examples of our side spreading false information and propaganda, they use that to lump us altogether and make us look like fools much the same way we do when we find out that the head of the Million Mom March, who spent a great deal of time on the anti-gun cause, then goes out and kills an innocent person with a gun. That makes her a total hypocrite, obviously. But, similarly, when someone on the pro-gun rights side takes a simple document on international arms control and disarmament and distorts it to be something it's not, we all get lumped into the category of extreme right wing paranoids who will say anything in the fight for our rights. If we're going to hold out against the anti-gun crowd we have to be the ones that are the most honest, the least hypocritical, the most accurate and the most virtuous so that our just cause will truly be that, a just cause.

Highball

100% correct.I should have checked this out years ago.Truth is about the only weapon we have at the moment against those who seek to destroy America. One of the problems associated with the restoration of the Constitution is finding the facts involved. Part of the 'MSTIQUE' in the post above...the firearms portion was deleated in the 70's...reinstated by KLINTON IN 94'.this is according to other literature I have read.Once again,I never went to the source...the fedgov documents.I am not hardly qualified to interperate lawyer gobeldegook...after all,these are the same people who say that the Second means the national guard and army...ONLY...