The Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, their Parts and Components and Ammunition was adopted by General Assembly resolution 55/255 of 31 May 2001. It entered into force on 3 July 2005. The objective of the Protocol, which is the first legally binding instrument on small arms that has been adopted at the global level, is to promote, facilitate and strengthen cooperation among States Parties in order to prevent, combat and eradicate the illicit manufacturing of and trafficking in firearms, their parts and components and ammunition. By ratifying the Protocol, States make a commitment to adopt a series of crime-control measures and implement in their domestic legal order three sets of normative provisions: the first one relates to the establishment of criminal offences related to illegal manufacturing of, and trafficking in, firearms on the basis of the Protocol requirements and definitions; the second to a system of government authorizations or licensing intending to ensure legitimate manufacturing of, and trafficking in, firearms; and the third one to the marking and tracing of firearms

So all firearms are required to have a unique identifying # on them, but adding a CA to that that would be a “huge cost?” Seriously? That’s why were not following a UN resolution?

Remember when Canada was a respected member of the UN?

Hey Zimmer, you don’t have my support to expand the war. Vote no.

You guys really want them to reopen the gun registry? Are you commenters for real? We just got rid of our “gun tracking” system – unless you live in Quebec, I hear they want to open their own registry. We already have strict gun laws and you want them to make some more? Zimmer gets one right and the comments go back to wanting guns to be tracked once again…

I’m sure the useless UN will tell Korea and Iran to put their own logos on all the atom bombs they have or will be producing. Now small arms manufactures and dealers around the world will be stamping maple leafs on their wares for which Canada will take the credit for.
Thanks Bob Zimmer for having the common sense to see the through the useless UN proposal.

The serial number is put on when the gun is manufactured. At that time, it will not in general be known who will buy the gun, so the stamp identifying Canada as the country into which the gun is imported will have to be added later, perhaps by a distributor rather than the manufacturer. I don’t know how much that will cost, but it is certainly an additional expense, one whose purpose I fail to see.

They must be trying to emulate Canada’s failed gun registry.
I wonder just which business entity is pushing this?
One right move Bob.

It’s fairly easy to understand . Its about transnational gun smuggling . If not adopted ,it will make canada an easy venue for smuggling guns through canada to other places for the purpose of crime or conflict . If we are not on board and most others are , where does that leave us ? This is part of the human trafficking resolution . Perhaps if you read the whole resolution , you might understand why it is necessary . I believe the onus is on the manufacturer . I guess I should have put the whole thing here but it’s kind of long . Who could be against stopping transnational gun smuggling ? Or human trafficking ? Yikes .

On April 6th, 1994, genocide began in Rwanda. It was the greatest slaughter of human beings since the Holocaust. The majority of the 800,000 or so who were killed died of machete wounds. Did you read that Ataloss? no guns, machetes. And where was the UN? I wouldn’t put to much stock in anything that the UN says.

I would suggest that the genocide in Cambodia (Killing Fields) was much greater than Rwanda. Somewhere between 1.5 to 3 Million dead. Pol Pot was actually referred to as the Hitler of Southeast Asia.

What the UN needs to do is concentrate on helping those Countries in need, and passing some legislation to stop polluting the Oceans. In fact they should set up a system to clean the Oceans. Not likely that will ever happen.

The criminals do not care about gun registry’s or safe handling or storage of guns. All these rules and regulations are designed to distract us and tax us and control all of us who are legal abiding citizens who happen to want to own a gun for a number of legal reasons. (Hunting, Collecting, Target Shooting, or for our own protection)

All of these efforts to control the masses do very little to affect the criminals. I support MP Bob Zimmer’s motion.

Ataloss please explain how guns can be smuggled en-masse or even singularly through Canada. Airplane – nope not a hope in hell, boat – CBSA already have that covered, shipping container – CBSA and Port Authority. Other places that have borders you can run across I could see, but why does Canada have to create a bunch of new laws that has no jurisdiction on other country’s borders? And for that matter where are these guns that are being smuggled going to be manufactured – if in Russia or China then I highly doubt they are going to ship the guns through Canada to Africa or South America, just ship them there directly is a whole lot easier than risk seizure at the CBSA.

Cross border only puts us smuggling to the US as we do not have any other border unless they are going to run dog sleds across the North Pole, and easier to get guns in the US anyway so doubt that is an issue.

What the UN wants is if they find some guns with a CA stamped on them they can blame Canada for smuggling guns, even if the gun never touched Canadian soil, and perhaps draw a country into cleaning up a conflict they were never involved with in the first place.

Gun smugglers are not going to follow any UN resolution or any laws for that matter, to mess with people they will start to stamp their guns with USA or UK to stir up some controversy and infighting in the UN.

So if you can please explain a scenario where “If not adopted ,it will make canada an easy venue for smuggling guns through canada to other places for the purpose of crime or conflict”

Thanks for the support. The markings would in most if not all cases be put on after the manufacturing process as we don’t manufacture most of CDN firearms which is where the cost comes in. Further this system would have it’s own record keeping and tracking making it the backdoor registry most of us don’t want.

Here is a link to an interview I did Friday that explains things fairly well. https://youtu.be/tmcpdBiXRXM

Thanks for the link Mr. Bob Zimmer MP , keep up the good work.