Also, a treaty is equivalent to statute and does not supersede our constitutional guarantees.

NRA-ILA :: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the UN Arms Trade Treaty.

Contrary to a widely circulated e-mail, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has not signed any UN small arms treaty. She could not have done so, in fact, because no such treaty has yet been negotiated. As we noted in the item below from last November, the UN Arms Trade Treaty will be drafted between now and 2012, and even if signed would not take effect in the U.S. until it was ratified by the Senate.