I missed this : Just in Time for His Party’s Convention, Obama Administration Releases Latest Execut

Discussion in 'Firearms' started by AD1, Jul 27, 2016.


  1. AD1

    AD1 Monkey+++

    BOHICA

    I missed this last Friday


    On Friday, July 22, just as members of his party were gathering in Philadelphia to coronate Hillary Clinton as their presidential nominee, the Obama Administration once again released a sweeping gun control measure by executive fiat. This time the bad newscame via the U.S. State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC), which is primarily responsible for administering the Arms Export Control Act (AECA) and its implementing rules, the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). The upshot is that DDTC is labeling commercial gunsmiths as “manufacturers” for performing relatively simple work such as threading a barrel or fabricating a small custom part for an older firearm. Under the AECA, “manufactures” are required to register with DDTC at significant expense or risk onerous criminal penalties.

    As with prior executive actions on guns, the administration released its dictate suddenly and without advance warning to or prior input from affected businesses, completely bypassing the normal formalities associated with a significant rulemaking. The guidance is also likely to result in more confusion than clarity and may significantly chill heretofore legal conduct associated with gunsmithing.

    By way of background, the AECA and ITAR concern rules by which military materiel is exported from, and imported to, the United States. The so-called “defense articles” governed by the AECA/ITAR are compiled in what is known as the U.S. Munitions List and include some, but not all, firearms and ammunition, as well as their parts and components. Thus, for purposes of the regime, a spring or floorplate from the magazine of a controlled firearm is subject to the same regulatory framework as the firearm itself.

    Read more here.

    NRA-ILA | Just in Time for His Party’s Convention, Obama Administration Releases Latest Executive Gun Control
     
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  2. Oltymer

    Oltymer Monkey++

    UH, does that apply to an individual working on his own gun? Mounting sight rails for a scope? Building a gas pipe shotgun for their own use?
     
  3. Bandit99

    Bandit99 Monkey+++ Site Supporter+

    Well, if Hillary gets in then this will be small potatoes... She probably will not even extend it as her reforms will encompass and go much, much farther.
     
  4. techsar

    techsar Monkey+++

    No. Executive Orders only pertain to gov't employees.
     
  5. Sgt Nambu

    Sgt Nambu RIP 4/19/2018

    This POTUS is a blight on humanity!
     
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  6. oldawg

    oldawg Monkey+++

    You are FAR to polite sir.
     
  7. chimo

    chimo the few, the proud, the jarhead monkey crowd

    oh goodie...another executive order to ignore.
     
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  8. Sgt Nambu

    Sgt Nambu RIP 4/19/2018

    Yes I try to be polite! It is dripping with venom, though!:)
     
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