Democrats in the House and Senate are rebuking the Biden administration over a decision to leave in place a Trump-era regulatory change that detractors argue caused gun exports to soar, including to countries with poor human rights track records.
As a presidential candidate, Joe Biden said he would reverse a decision by the Trump administration to move export oversight of firearms from the State Department to the Commerce Department. But 18 months into his administration, that has yet to happen — even as gun sales, including those of semiautomatic weapons, have ramped up steeply.
“There are fewer registration requirements, less oversight, more exemptions, and significantly curtailed congressional review,” said Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, at a House Foreign Affairs hearing last week. “It was essentially a giveaway to gun manufacturers a few years ago, and it seems to have worked.”
Deepening the frustration felt by Capitol Hill Democrats […]
Noam Chomsky has said that the USA is the worst terrorist agency in the entire world and the weapons industry is to blame, as well as the government which makes it happen, because of the graft and the pollution of the government since “Citizens United”.
Can’t believe this, more blame than realize the biggest exporter of arms/guns is USA, as it ship’s undisclosed amounts of weapons to Ukraine which never reaches Ukrainian people but rather gets loaded over to another airplane and shipped elsewhere. Recently large airplane crashed in Greece, it was full of American weapons that originally sent to Ukraine, why & what was it doing flying over Greece, checking flight plans really sheds light on what is really going on. Usually like to keep mouth shut, but this is getting insane, this Government refuses to look at obvious and blame others for mistakes created by themselves. Spending should be going on homeless and hungry not to send guns to other places/country’s that sell it to others that shouldn’t have them as they kill own people. We need to control by helping our own .