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Firearms Export Control
S. 459 - Stopping the Traffic in Overseas Proliferation of Ghost Guns Act
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H.R. 1134 - Prevent Crime and Terrorism Act of 2019
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Commentary
See video and testimony from March 26 House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight hearing
Written testimony is available from Susan Waltz (pdf) and Jeff Abramson (pdf).
Written testimony is available from Susan Waltz (pdf) and Jeff Abramson (pdf).
See comments from March 5 press briefing:
Jeff Abramson Senior Fellow, Arms Control Association - Feb 8, 2019
Congress can and should seek to block these export regulation changes, which exacerbate the export of U.S. gun violence problems abroad. This legislation would do that. If not halted or significantly changed, the new rules would continue the cynical approach of the Trump administration to treat weapons as any other trade commodity, threatening to undermine long-term global security and upsetting decades of more responsible U.S. arms transfer policy. (See full related statement here.)