90 day export ban?? National Security Concern??

**44 AMP** · October 30, 2023, 08:35 PM

Is there one, or is this just being petty and finding a (legal???) way to hurt the commercial firearms industry??

As reported in the news, the administration is implementing a 90 day ban on the export of civilian firearms, to non governmental purchasers outside the US.

How is this anything but a cheap shot against civilian firearms makers in the US??

WHAT POSSIBLE "National Security Concerns" can there be from the export of SPORTING FIREARMS???

Seems that they are going to continue to allow civilian sale to foreign governments, but not to private gun dealers outside of a short list of "approved" nations.

Thoughts?
(be civil)

Recycled bullet · October 30, 2023, 10:30 PM

If an export ban is to promote public safety then background checks to purchase ammunition are to promote safety... The safety of tyrants.

Repeatedly a pattern emerges, a pattern of behavior expressed through poorly written ignorant legislation and selective enforcement of the law.

What will they think of next

BarryLee · October 31, 2023, 05:46 AM

Whether it is individual gun owners or manufactures the goal is to make firearms ownership, manufacture or sell as difficult and expensive as "legally" possible. This will result in fewer businesses and customers and slow death of the industry.

October 30, 2023, 08:35 PM	#1
44 AMP Staff Join Date: March 11, 2006 Location: Upper US Posts: 28,861	90 day export ban?? National Security Concern?? Is there one, or is this just being petty and finding a (legal???) way to hurt the commercial firearms industry?? As reported in the news, the administration is implementing a 90 day ban on the export of civilian firearms, to non governmental purchasers outside the US. How is this anything but a cheap shot against civilian firearms makers in the US?? WHAT POSSIBLE "National Security Concerns" can there be from the export of SPORTING FIREARMS??? Seems that they are going to continue to allow civilian sale to foreign governments, but not to private gun dealers outside of a short list of "approved" nations. Thoughts? (be civil) __________________ All else being equal (and it almost never is) bigger bullets tend to work better.

October 31, 2023, 05:46 AM	#3
BarryLee Senior Member Join Date: July 29, 2010 Location: The ATL (OTP) Posts: 3,946	Whether it is individual gun owners or manufactures the goal is to make firearms ownership, manufacture or sell as difficult and expensive as "legally" possible. This will result in fewer businesses and customers and slow death of the industry. __________________ A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it ... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. - Milton Friedman

October 30, 2023, 10:30 PM	#2
Recycled bullet Senior Member Join Date: November 13, 2022 Posts: 342	If an export ban is to promote public safety then background checks to purchase ammunition are to promote safety... The safety of tyrants. Repeatedly a pattern emerges, a pattern of behavior expressed through poorly written ignorant legislation and selective enforcement of the law. What will they think of next