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Firearms Export Control

S. 459 - Stopping the Traffic in Overseas Proliferation of Ghost Guns Act 
  • Introduced Feb 12 - status, text
  • Press release, "Menendez, Colleagues Introduce Bill to Block Trump Admin Push to Allow Unfettered Proliferation of Untraceable, 3D Printable Guns, Weaken Controls over Foreign Arms Sales," Feb 12.​​
 
H.R. 1134 - Prevent Crime and Terrorism Act of 2019
  • Introduced Feb. 8​ - see status, text
  • Press release, "Torres, Engel Introduce Bill to Block Trump Administration Proposal to Deregulate Firearm Exports," Feb 8. Also see "Torres, Engel Statement on Trump Administration Firearms Export Rule Change," Feb 1​​
  • Experts* to contact: John Lindsay-Poland, Jeff Abramson, Colby Goodman, Christina Arabia, Rachel Stohl, Brittany Benowitz, William Hartung. Additional experts suggested include Kristen Rand at the Violence Policy Center and Susan Waltz at the University of Michigan. ​
 
H.Amdt.512 to H.R.2500 - (Would prevent the President from removing any item from the U.S. Munitions List)
  • ​Offered July 10, 2019 - see status, text​
 

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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).
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See comments from March 5 press briefing:
Jeff Abramson Senior Fellow, Arms Control Association - Feb 8, 2019
Jeff Abramson
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.)

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