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A Sporting Chance

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]

Of Little Import?

Frank Ross Talbert, 40, a Lieutenant Colonel with U.S. Army Explosives Ordinance Disposal (EOD) assigned to Fort Campbell, is facing federal criminal charges after law enforcement officers conducted an investigation and executed multiple search warrants uncovering evidence that Talbert unlawfully imported firearms parts from Russia and other countries, unlawfully dealt in firearms without a federal firearms license, and committed multiple firearms violations related to the possession of machineguns… [More]

Disregarding for a moment that we all should be able to do that, I’m wondering how he thought he could without getting caught and if he exploited his official position in any way to do it.

Or is this just an hysterical way of painting snaring him with some technicalities?

[Via bondmen]

ATF Import Seminar

On September 19, 2023, Export Compliance Training Institute (ECTI) will host a 90-minute webinar, A Primer on Navigating ATF Import Controls, where attorney Johanna Reeves will demystify the ATF’s rules on importing defense articles into the United States. From firearms to destructive devices, we’ve got it all covered! [More]

Here’s how to take part.

I don’t see it on the Reeves & Dola LLP Alerts page yet so posted the email to my WOG Placeholder blog.

If you’re in the industry or just want to know about relevant import/export laws, you really ought to know about these alerts.

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