Gun-rights group
to protest U.N.

The New York chapter of a nationwide pro-gun group is planning to stage a protest against a United-Nations-sponsored small-arms conference, to voice its opposition to what the group's leaders describe as an effort to circumvent Americans' right to keep and bear arms.

The state chapter of the Tyranny Response Team, in a statement released Monday, said it will stage a rally tomorrow at the U.N. headquarters building in Manhattan.

"At stake is the intent of the United Nations to regulate 500 million civil arms worldwide, over half of which are in the United States," the statement said.

Robert Teesdale, national director for TRT, told WorldNetDaily the most egregious thing about the U.N. small-arms conference "is the unforgivably arrogant belief that [U.N. officials] have any right whatsoever to propose global regulations that infringe upon the sovereign rights of American citizens."

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The U.N. is not "and never will be our master," Teesdale said.

The TRT chief said he believes the U.N. is trying to force gun bans or at least more restrictive gun control on Americans because, he says, the global organization "cannot dictate to … an armed, free people."

"The United Nations has moved far beyond its original purpose of preventing war," Teesdale said. Rather, the organization "has now … demonstrated that it wishes to reserve war-making capability to governments alone. It has demonstrated that it considers the billions of struggling humans across the world to be little more than chattels of tyrants [who are] forbidden to keep and bear arms, and thus be the masters of their own destiny."

Teesdale told WND he expected anywhere from "several hundred to several thousand" people to show up at the TRT-sponsored rally.

"I do know that American patriots are chartering buses all across the nation" to come to New York for the protest, he said, "and that the general consensus … is that showing up for this one is mandatory."

Teesdale said the message his group wanted to send to the U.N. was simple.

"Americans are not subject to your authority. We will not be disarmed. Don't tread on us."

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