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<p>“Does this mean it’s going to impose some international gun registration scheme? That could happen here, under the treaty,” said the gun manufacturer representative.</p>
<p>Daniel Prins, chief of the Conventional Arms Branch for the U.N.’s Office for Disarmament Affairs (ODA) told FoxNews.com that no provisions have been finalized.</p>
<p>“All the issues remain on the table,” said Prins.</p>
<p>Other gun control supporters who attended the U.N. conference say that American gun owners have nothing to worry about.</p>
<p>“People within the U.S. should not be worried about it unless they sell arms internationally,” Collin Goddard, of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, told FoxNews.com. “The whole treaty is to prevent countries from selling guns to other countries that have gross violations of human rights.”</p>
<p>Goddard said that concerns about a possible national gun registry is ridiculous because the intent of the treaty was only to restrict arms sales between countries. “This does not cover weapons that are kept internally,” he said, adding that the ISU would be kept efficient.</p>
<p>“They are just trying to establish a regulatory board… Everyone’s worried about another big bureaucracy, and I can understand that. But the committee is trying to keep it small and lean,” said Goddard.</p>
<p>The gun manufacturer representative said his client doesn’t buy that. “It’s pretty clear that it’s going to impose major new administrative burdens.”</p>
<p>An especially costly potential regulation discussed at the conference last month would require gun makers to engrave sequential tracings on every one of some 3 billion bullets produced in the U.S. each year.</p>
<p>And that, he said, would make guns more expensive for everyone.</p>
<p>“Manufacturers would have to pass on the cost to civilian customers.” Another controversial part of the treaty draft establishes a compensation fund for victims of gun violence, which would transfer money from countries that export weapons to countries that had suffered gun violence.</p>
<p>“Countries should support victims of any kind of victimization,” Goddard said, noting that it was a big issue at the July treaty conference. But it is included in the draft treaty only as a voluntary provision for each country.</p>
<p>Goddard added that he did not believe that the fund would make it into the final version of the treaty, in part because the U.S. delegation opposed the measure. The U.S. government’s delegation has opposed restrictions on civilian weapons in general. Canada has done the same.</p>
<p>The State Department did not respond to calls for comment.</p>
<p>But Versnel said that the vast majority of countries support additional regulations on civilian weapons.</p>
<p>“Just about everybody is pushing for more,” Julianne Versnel, the director of operations for the Second Amendment Foundation, who also attended the conference, told FoxNews.com. “It's Europe, it's Africa, it's the Caribbean, it's South America. Mexico has been at the forefront.”</p>
<p>Regardless of what regulations other countries agree to, the treaty only becomes law in the U.S. if it gets a two-thirds majority in the Senate.</p>
<p>And last month, more than 50 senators signed on to a letter to Secretary of State Clinton saying that they will not vote for any treaty that restricts civilian arms.</p>
<p>The NRA is confident that the treaty will not be ratified in the U.S.</p>
<p>"The U.N. can pass it if they want it," NRA spokesman Andrew Arulanandam told FoxNews.com.</p>
<p>"But for it to have domestic effect, it needs to pass us senate by a two-thirds vote -- and clearly that will not happen in this make up of the U.S. senate, regardless of what the administration does."</p>