State Attorneys General Defeated, Small Arms Export Control Reforms Now in Effect

By Larry Keane NSSF’s Intervention on Behalf of Industry Is Successful – Court Allows Export Rules to Take Effect After a decade long push by the NSSF, the final rules for the USML to CCL transition (formerly called Export Control Reform Initiative) took effect yesterday after a federal court in Seattle ruled in NSSF’s favor … Read more

Trump Administration ITAR Move Could Boost Exports for Gun Manufacturers, Reduce Taxes for Gunsmiths

A TTAG reader writes: One of President Obama’s last shots at the firearms community was the imposition of a huge financial tax on gunsmiths through a creative new interpretation of the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). As a result, you can’t even buy a chambering reamer today without registering with the Department of State Directorate of … Read more