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In early July, the UN convened the first (take a deep breath) Biennial Meeting of States to Consider the Implementation of the Program of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects. This preposterously titled meeting was a follow-up to the 2001 UN conference on small arms, which created a framework for civilian disarmament worldwide in the name of controlling so-called illicit weapons.
As documented in the 2000 UN propaganda film Armed to the Teeth: The World-Wide Plague of Small Arms, the UN considers all civilian-owned firearms to be illicit by definition. In his millennium report We the Peoples, Secretary-General Kofi Annan declared: "Controlling the proliferation of illicit weapons is a necessary first step toward the non-proliferation of small arms. These weapons must be brought under the control of states, and states must be held responsible for their transfer." According to Kuniko Inoguchi, who chaired the most recent UN small arms conference, more than 90 nations ...