Trump administration paves the way to boost US firearms exports

[left-of-center2012]

Firearms makers in the United States will be able within days to export as much as 20 percent more guns, including assault rifles and ammunition, under rules announced Friday by the administration of US President Donald Trump.

The change will officially move oversight of commercial firearm exports from the US Department of State to the US Department of Commerce, where export licences will be much easier to obtain.

US Democratic Senator Bob Menendez, ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was critical of the move, saying the administration "is choosing a path that puts the gun industry's profits ahead of the safety of families" and that the guns "are easily modified, diverted, and proliferated, and are the primary means of injury, death, and destruction in civil and military conflicts throughout the world".

Reuters News Agency first reported on the Trump administration's interest in the oversight shift in 2017. The action is part of a broader Trump administration overhaul of weapons export policy.

https://www.aljazeera.com/ajimpact/trump-administration-paves-boost-firearms-exports-200117203045145.html

[EX500rider]

1. I'd say it was up to individual countries to control their imports of firearms...

...because even if the US would not export, China, Russia etc certainly would.
So blocking US exports if the country can just turn to another supplier doesn't really accomplish much.

[Hoyt]

2. Keeps us from exporting lethal weapons and turning other countries into gun-humping cesspools.

Let someone else profit from gunz, intimidation, racism, and killing.

I guess our gun manufacturers will use these type marketing campaigns and enlist folks like this to promote their weapons:

[EX500rider]

3. It does not keep anything from happening as China and Russia will be glad to export to anybody.

It's just a feel good gesture that accomplishes nothing.
Unless you think China and Russia are picky about who they export to.

[Hoyt]

6. That's fine, let them be the ones to profit off gunz.

[EX500rider]

4. Any examples of US gun marketing using Zimmerman or the Confederate flag?

Or you just have a vivid imagination and don't get out much?

[Hoyt]

5. Here is George Zimmerman visiting Kel-Tec on a photo op. Do you own a Keltec?

https://abcnews.go.com/US/george-zimmerman-visits-florida-gun-maker-kel-tec/story?id=20047743

[EX500rider]

7. No, do you?

[Karadeniz]

8. And here I thought McDonalds all over the world was bad of us to do. Now this.