Biden Administration to Implement Most Sweeping Gun Export Regulations in Decades
Source: Time/Bloomberg
April 26, 2024 1:00 AM EDT
To curb the use of U.S.-made civilian guns in crimes and human rights abuses abroad, the Biden administration will require exporters to better vet their customers and tighten sales to 36 countries deemed high-risk for illicit diversion of semiautomatic firearms, according to people briefed on the plan.
The new regulationsthe most sweeping in decadesalso cut the length of export licenses from four years to one and give the State Department greater authority to block sales. The Commerce Department on Friday is scheduled to release the 150-page regulation, which agency officials have outlined to advocacy groups and policymakers on Capitol Hill.
The plan resulted from the departments review of its support for the U.S. gun industrya process that began after a Bloomberg News investigation last year linked record civilian gun exports to higher rates of gun crime in countries including Guatemala, Brazil and Canada. A Commerce Department spokesman declined to comment on the new regulations when contacted on Thursday.
During the past decade, Republican and Democratic administrations alike pitched U.S.-made guns as a retail product in some of the most violence-prone countries in the world. The investigation documented how legally exported weapons had been used in crimes ranging from a 2022 massacre at a preschool in Thailand to the assassination last August of the leading presidential candidate in Ecuador. In late October, the Biden administration announced a 90-day freeze of many U.S. firearms exports so it could consider revising the regulations. The new measure is set to become public six months into the freeze.
Read more: https://time.com/6971292/biden-administration-gun-export-regulations/
sanatanadharma
(3,740 posts)The USSC will over rule this, claiming the whole world has a 2nd A right to buy our guns.
Keep in mind the 2nd amendment gives Americans the right to bear arms but does not give anyone the right to sell guns to other countries. It does not guarantee affordability of arms, nor availability.
"We are sorry, that gun is out of stock nationwide."
Irish_Dem
(47,518 posts)They must get off on it.
Like seeing pregnant women denied emergency life saving medical care.
melm00se
(4,997 posts)is:
"Congress has power...to regulate commerce with foreign nations", did Congress authorize/require vetting of exporters?
If this is not something that can be squeezed into/under existing law, guns or not, the Executive Branch does not have the ability to make laws or expand them beyond the scope of the enacted law.
But, because it's gunz there will be plenty who will claim the "ends justify the means".