David A. Keene - Shall Not Be Infringed: The New Assaults on Your Second Amendment

Praise for Shall Not Be Infringed

If youre wondering whether this years candidates support or oppose your Second Amendment rights, this book, Shall Not Be Infringed , is a book youll want to read!

Dick Cheney , former Vice President of the United States

This timely book highlights the critical importance of electing officeholders who will protect our Second Amendment freedoms. Keene and Mason tell a troubling story about how the Obama State Department, led by Hillary Clinton, helped advance an UN effort to restrict the rights of law-abiding gun owners. As the book reveals, Hillary Clinton herself was personally involved in the effort. It is essential that we elect a president this fall who respects the Second Amendment and who will work to reverse the harm Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have done to our constitutional rights.

Senator Orrin Hatch

The current assault on gun rights threatens our most basic rights as citizensand our most sacred foundational principles. This book lays bare the dangers of the movement to disarm us and whats required to defeat it. Its a must-read for every American.

Monica Crowley, PhD, editor and columnist for the Washington Times and political and foreign affairs analyst for Fox News

In Shall Not Be Infringed , David Keene and Tom Mason have broken the code on the gun-grabbers plot to make our Constitutions Second Amendment irrelevant. For all who want to protect our precious civil liberties, this book is a mandatory must read!

Lt. Col Oliver North , USMC (Ret.), NRA Board Member, and bestselling author of Heroes Proved

Shall Not be Infringed is warning to all of us that all of us must be freedom fighters in the defense of our storied and essential Second Amendment. I am proud to call David my friend and fellow warrior.

Thomas Millner , CEO of Cabelas

Chilling! David Keene and Tom Mason have fought on the front lines in the gun rights battlesin the US and around the world. Their clear description of how we arrived at the point where a major presidential nominee openly calls for banning guns in this country should be a clarion call for anyone who values the Constitution and the American way of life.

Tom Gresham, Host of Gun Talk Radio

Shall Not Infringed by Dave Keene and Tom Mason, a remarkable work by two of the most knowledgeable Second Amendment warriors I know, is must reading.

Stephen Hornady, President of Hornady Ammunition

Most recently in Germany, which has stringent anti-gun laws, a misguided young man illegally obtained an automatic weapon and killed many innocent people at a local McDonalds. We might as well outlaw automobiles if we want to curb violent death by restricting the instrument rather than the irresponsible actions of irresponsible people. Good moral people without guns are at the mercy of immoral people who will obtain them illegally. The Second Amendment protects good citizenscrippling it will leave them defenseless. We need to personally read this book to our kids who are being brainwashed by propaganda.

Pat Boone , singer/songwriter

Do we really need another book on the threat to the Second Amendment and the rights of Americas gun-owners? Read Shall Not Be Infringed and your answer will be a resounding yes! Co-authors Tom Mason and David Keene have given us a timely, lucid, well-argued, and highly readable discussion of the threats foreign and domestic to our liberty. Fortunately, the Second Amendment is the only self-enforcing right in the Bill of Rights. Perennial gun-grabbers would be wise to keep that in mind.

Thomas Moore , author and consultant to the firearms industry

David Keenes book, Shall Not be Infringed , is an essential read when advocates of our Second Amendment are under daily assault and America is one Supreme Court Justice away from reversing its affirmation that the Second Amendment is an individual right. In 2006, then-President George W. Bush asked me to serve on the Special United Nations Conference on Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons led by John Bolton. We stopped a radical Draft Program of Action that would have sublimated the will and sovereignty of the America people to an un-elected band of NGOs and allied governmentuntil our own American government let it happen. Our adversaries so miserably fail to recognize our God-given right of self-defense. One of our most important civil rights hangs in the balance. Backers of global gun control claim that civilian firearms are a genocidal threat. Yet in 1994 Rwanda, 800,000 innocents were killed or maimed by pangas (machetes), spears, and axes. An armed citizenry would have prevented this international atrocity, and all-too-many others.

Roy Innis , National Chairman, Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)

History is often a collection of turning points where key individuals stood against the tyranny of the massesbe they media or othersand those champions made all the difference. With most in the mainstream press in a full-on assault of gun rights following the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, David Keene was one man who prevailed against the medias intellectual house of cards. For those who not only cherish the Second Amendmentbut the rest of our constitution as wellDavid Keene was the right man at the right time and we owe him a great debt.

Chris Dorsey , Founding Partner, Dorsey Pictures

Copyright 2016 by David A. Keene and Thomas L. Mason

Foreword copyright 2016 by John Bolton

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Cover design by Tom Lau

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Print ISBN: 978-1-5107-1995-8

Ebook ISBN: 978-1-5107-1996-5

Printed in the United States of America

To Donna, to whom I owe everything and whom I adore. She organizes my life, encourages me when I need encouragement, prods me to always do better, puts up with my bullheadedness, and makes my life more meaningful. Without her, this book would never have been written or published.

David Keene

To William Gunner Bill Montgomerya scholar, a gentleman, and the nicest pirate one could ever know.

Tom Mason

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART I: The Arms Trade Treaty:
Trouble on the Home Front

PART II: The Arms Trade Treaty:
Interference From Abroad

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

First, we thank gun owners worldwide and, particularly, the members of the National Rifle Association (NRA) who have supported our work on behalf of the Second Amendment. NRA members, including those who make up our families, have provided lifelong inspiration and are a lot of fun around the fire pit, at a gun range, or in a duck blind. Our experiences of the last decades would not have been possible had our NRA family, for whatever reason, not provided us the opportunity to play a small role in the fight to preserve the freedoms passed down to us by those who came before. For this we shall be forever grateful.