Trump withdraws from UN Arms Trade Treaty; vows foreign bureaucrats won't trample on Second Amendment

President Donald Trump[1] speaking to the National Rifle Association[2], a group that made a multimillion investment in his campaign, declared his administration will not ratify the UN Arms Trade Treaty -- a treaty supported by the Obama administration that is aimed at regulating the international arms industry."The United Nations will soon receive a formal notice that America is rejecting this treaty," Trump said in a speech at the NRA convention in Indianapolis. The treaty was not supported by the NRA."We will never allow foreign bureaucrats to trample on your Second Amendment," Trump said to applause and acknowledged the "happy faces from the NRA over there."Trump signed a document before the crowd, which he said was a "message asking the Senate to discontinue the treaty ratification process and return the now-rejected treaty right back to me in the Oval Office, where I will dispose of it." The move, however, is mostly symbolic. The Obama administration submitted the treaty to the Senate, but it was never ratified after facing opposition. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has not signaled how lawmakers will move forward with the president's request.Immediately, gun control advocates spoke out against the president's decision to back away from the treaty, which seeks to make it more difficult to sell weapons to countries that are under arms embargoes, often because of conflict."The Arms Trade Treaty is designed to keep guns out of war-stricken countries and prevent dangerous situations from descending even further into chaos. It is a treaty supported by our allies, but in opposing it, the president instead chose to stand with countries such as North Korea and Syria," said Kris Brown, the president of Brady, an organization aimed at preventing gun violence.As he took the stage, it appeared that a phone was thrown at but did not strike the

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