The bill would allow the import of firearms when similar products are domestically produced and available for sale in the United States. [More]
I wonder if he reads Firearms News. The thing is, it doesn’t need to be a bill, which would allow for it to fail. :
There’s something else Trump could do quickly that would not require Congressional approval. Back in 1989, George H.W. Bush (the “Read my lips, no new gun laws” president who quit the NRA over its then-Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre repeating Democrat Rep. John Dingell’s “jackbooted thugs” reference to ATF) imposed “a permanent import ban on 43 types of semiautomatic assault rifles, including the Chinese-made AK47 and Israeli-made Uzi carbine,” per The Washington Post. The excuse given was they “were not being used for sport as required by the Gun Control Act of 1968.”
That would be “very easy” to overturn, Firearms News Editor-in Chief, Vincent L. DeNiro, who has a nine-page resume in the gun industry going back to 1982, assesses. “President Trump doesn’t even need Congress to get rid of the unconstitutional 1989 “assault weapons” import ban, he just needs to order the BATFE to declare all imported semi-auto rifles as ‘sporting,’ which is what these same models are considered when domestically produced.” (True, “sporting use” is a term originated in a 1938 German gun control law, and “swords and every terrible implement of the soldier are the birthright of an American,” but it will get the job done and we know why we want them.)
[Via bondmen]
Since the semi-auto import ban was enacted via executive fiat, it can be overturned the same way.
But if they insist on a bill going through Congress: The bill would require the import of firearms when similar products are domestically produced and available for sale in the United States.
There. Fixed it.
“Allow vs require” regarding imports is the same as “may-issue vs shall-issue” regarding CCW licenses. (Which have their own Constitutional problems, but the analogy stands.) “Allowed” just means “not forbidden”; it’s not at all the same as “required”.
The advantage of a bill that is passed is it can’t be undone by the next administration via EO or other arbitrary decision. Everything Biden has done via EO can be undone by Trump next Monday. Just like everything Trump had done his first term was cancelled by Pedo Joe the day he was installed into the White House. Undoing legislation is much harder to do.
“George H.W. Bush (the “Read my lips, no new gun laws” president)”
Pretty sure that was “no new taxes.” Bush not only was never a friend of gun owners, he never even bothered to pretend to be.