Comments on: ALERT: Feds Impose ITAR Registration Burdens on Gunsmiths

By: NotChuck

NotChuck — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 05:11:38 +0000

Rich Kayser, make it even simpler. Anybody who was not listed as a manufacturer before 1968 (the 1968 Gun Control Act), isn’t a manufacturer today.

By: NotChuck

NotChuck — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 05:07:28 +0000

“. . . or furnishing defense services” might well include anybody who teaches a CCW class as well, as long as ‘”they” are expanding regulatory definitions.
It sounds like the DDTC was made up specifically so that the State Department could backdoor domestic gun control iaw the future provisions of trade agreements like the TPP, whereby corporations (or NGO’s incorporated to acquire “standing”) could sue the government into compliance without having to face sovereignty issues or constitutional impediments.

By: Joseph Florio

Joseph Florio — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 03:55:58 +0000

This to me is the Obama administration doing a go around to the second amendment, an amendment he has been trying to weaken for as long as he is in the White House.
I don’t build or change any firearms, but electing Donald Trump now becomes elementary, and necessary.
Mr. Obama has for 7 1/2 years spoken about civil rights for Americans, but when it comes to these second amendment rights for all Americans, it seems to me he wants to ignore it, and throw that right, right out the White House window along with every American firearm company doing business in America.
What do they have against American business doing business in America?
Don’t they realize that these firearms will be made elsewhere if they make it more expensive to make them here in this country?
With these new ridiculous rules, which will create excessive costs, they keep throwing road blocks in front of American firearm companies forcing them to change course, and of course that road takes American companies out of America to do business elsewhere.
If American company nit picking continues, made in America will be science fiction, and not a fact.

By: SRM

SRM — Fri, 05 Aug 2016 00:56:46 +0000

Hitler would be proud!
Taxation without representation . So what should a ffl abide by, these jokers or the atf regs.?

By: Philip Palmer

Philip Palmer — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 19:16:26 +0000

Another oversight by this guidance is how this applies to students working on their certificate and the school house providing the training. Is the school required to register with DDTC? If so, does this registration also cover the students who are essentially machining and smithing a working firearm? Also, the guidance is purposely negligent in defining “firearm” since the DDTC only has jurisdiction over rifles, handguns, shotguns under 18″ barrel length and a small range of optical devices. The Dept of Commerce BIS has jurisdiction of shotguns over 18″, muzzleloaders, airguns, and most optics. Make sure you are aware of the jurisdiction differences and not sucked into registering with the DDTC if you do not fall under their purvue.

By: Rich Kayser

Rich Kayser — Mon, 01 Aug 2016 07:06:02 +0000

Simple enough to deal with:

Just Email your congressman and senators with the reference data.

They can strip them of the ability to apply any of these provisions to American gunsmiths that do not engage in manufacturing as:

a. less than 500 firearms per year.

b. do not manufacture all of the primary parts of a firearm. IE, the action, the barrel, or the stock in quantities of less than 500 of each part per year.

By: Henry Barker

Henry Barker — Mon, 01 Aug 2016 07:02:32 +0000

Another reason to set up manufacturing of firearms outside of the US
can we gaurantee that we can get parts in other countries
Buy Russian or European or ???

By: Richard Wilfong

Richard Wilfong — Sat, 30 Jul 2016 11:19:13 +0000

THIS SHOULD NEVER BE…

By: Editor

Editor — Sat, 30 Jul 2016 10:52:22 +0000

Here is an insightful comment by an FFL-holder posting on the Prince Law Legal Blog:

“Determining that threading a barrel is the same as building a TANK for export is just insanity, it’s high time that Congress investigate this power grab, and separate manufacturers who never export a real item of war, from those who do.

This is clearly gun control being enacted against the entire firearms industry, only because the State Department CAN do so, with no legal oversight by Congress.

Further, what about them making actions which were clearly legal before this determination, and now making them illegal with no action by the very bodies who make the laws?

IS this any different than the EPA ordering people to comply with environmental regulations with no due process? Something that they have clearly been forced to stop doing by the courts?”

MORE: https://blog.princelaw.com/2016/07/25/ddtc-issues-guidance-on-itar-registration/

By: Karl Keller

Karl Keller — Sat, 30 Jul 2016 02:41:35 +0000

If this is by “Executive Order”, could the next “Executive” repeal or rescind such order? If so the election of Donald Trump becomes even more important.