basically its position against the arms trade treaty is that they're saying through project means through lies through deception that the treaty would actually end up disempowering americans and would take away their guns that is not what the arms trade treaty is about the arms trade treaty is really about the international transfer of weapons going outside of the united states it has nothing to do with domestic american gun control sure just track in regulating these guns as you said the most unregulated commodity in the world that alone or should be startling to anyone who's concerned about this issue but nano water you know most of the daily commodities we consume are regulated but not weapons weapons. you know previous treaties of em to stop the use of landmines cluster bombs other dirty weapons what are the weapons being banned why are they so dangerous and i know that your film actually focuses on the forty seven coalition a cough why is this particular weapons while they keep forty seven is the most ubiquitous weapon around the world so if you look at most conflict areas it's the w

people a year opponents are dismissive they say the treaty is not balanced in favor is the interest of arms exporting states. across not the arms trade treaty i'm joined by geoffrey ingersoll in new york he is a defense reporter with business insider in washington we have daryl kimball he is the executive director of the arms control association and in london we cross to quito maki she is an associate fellow at chatham house in an expert in conventional arms and disarmament and if you can jump in anytime you want jeffery in new york are you happy with this treaty because there it passed overwhelmingly with a lot of abstentions though important abstentions yeah there were a lot of abstentions but i really honestly think that regulating a seventy billion dollars business with several actors both government and private running arms through convoluted means some of them over the table some of them under the table is just ridiculous to do with twelve or fifteen page treaty i mean i think the idea. is laughable tell you the truth ok darrell. laughable treaty go ahead well this is this is an effective strong first step toward some common se

treaty. i do and i completely agree with what he just said i think it's a it's a landmark first step in controlling the trade in conventional arms i also wouldn't be too concerned about the number of the tensions. on the on the contrary i think it was actually maybe even good that we could pause the treaty in the general assembly as you may know as background the treaty was originally blocked in a conference in march when the three countries objected to it and it would have there it would have had to be adopted by consensus now. too many times i think in the history of the u.n. these sort of landmark. processes have been blocked just by less than a handful of countries and in that sense i thought it was really good that we could well insulated it's a very good policy with the landslide is to feel good thing but you know jeffrey does it make any difference. no it doesn't i mean look call it a good first step is like you know complimenting your mother in law's bad. it's not going to do anything and there's no enforcement mechanism it's going to take two years to put in place and then we're counting on the united states and russia

people a year opponents are dismissive they say the treaty is not balanced and favors the interests of arms exporting states. across not the arms trade treaty i'm joined by jeffrey cole in new york he is a defense reporter with business insider in washington we have daryl kimball he is the executive director of the arms control association and in london we cross to keep the marquis she is an associate fellow at chatham house in an expert in conventional arms and disarmament. i mean you can jump in anytime you want jeffery in new york are you happy with this treaty because there are it passed overwhelmingly with a lot of abstentions though important abstentions.

has passed the arms trade treaty to regulate the international conventional weapons business supporters of the treaty claim it is a positive first step to tame an industry because over a half a million people a year opponents are dismissive they say the treaty is not balanced in favor is the interest of all rooms exporting states. across that the arms trade treaty i'm joined by geoffrey ingersoll in new york he is a defense reporter with business insider.

people a year opponents are dismissive they say the treaty is not balanced and favors the interest of arms exporting states. across the uk the arms trade treaty i'm joined by geoffrey ingersoll in new york he is a defense reporter with business insider in washington with.

treaty to curb the trade and elicit small arms worldwide was a conspiracy to take away all individually held firearms across the world. you will love jim porter. this is a gold mine, i think. >> wow. director of communications at the coalition to stop gun violence. thank you. >> thank you. >>> more to come. big news from a little state about same sex marriage. later, the new george w. bush library remembers hurricane katrina. i'm serious. first, one more thing about the background vote check last month, republican senator kelly ayotte was not the only senator to be held in account for her vote. senator john mccain, who split with his party on this, voted for background checks, he had a town hall meeting, too, and a former aide to gabby giffords wounded in the same mass shooting in tucson that almost killed the congresswoman, she showed up directly to speak to senator mccain. >> i would like to thank you very much for your vote. >> that was pam simon, former aide to congresswoman gabby giffords and former family violence survivor. they were not made unanimously. [ lane ] are you growing