USA to withdraw from Arms Treaty signed in 2013 by Obama

INDIANAPOLIS  (Sat, April 27, 2019) – While addressing the National Rifle Association (NRA) yesterday, the United States President Donald Trump stated that he was pulling the USA out of an international arms treaty signed in 2013 by the then US President Barack Obama.

The treaty which regulates the $70 billion business in conventional arms covers weapons exports, ranging from small firearms to tanks, but not domestic sales.

Trump told members of the gun lobby at an annual meeting he intends to revoke the status of the United States as a signatory to the Arms Trade Treaty, which was never ratified by the U.S. Senate.

He also announced that the United Nations (UN) would soon receive formal notice of the USA’s withdrawal from the treaty.