LEGALLY ARMED: Democrats Continue Efforts to Derail Export Control Reform
It seems like only yesterday, but more than a year has passed since the Trump Administration published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to adjust U.S. export con... Read more.
Legally Armed: October 2019
Remember when the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) issued industry guidance on compliance matters such as firearm classifications, mark... Read more.
Legally Armed: ATF Issues Final Rule on Bump Stocks
On December 26, 2018, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) issued a final rule amending its regulations to classify bump-fire-type stoc... Read more.
Legally Armed: Failed Prosecution Reveals Alarming ATF Practices in Classifying AR-Type Pistols as Short Barrel Rifles
On October 4, 2018, a jury in Ohio found Kelland Jamieson Wright NOT GUILTY of knowingly possessing an unregistered short barrel rifle. The product at the cente... Read more.
Legally Armed: The Intersection of U.S. Anti-Discrimination Laws with Export Controls and Federal Firearms Laws
In Part One of this series (see “Legally Armed,” Small Arms Review, Vol. 23, No. 4 (April 2019)), we walked through the U.S. anti-discrimination laws that p... Read more.
Legally Armed: December 2018
On August 1–3, 2018, the F.A.I.R. Trade Group and National Shooting Sports Foundation held their annual Firearms Import/Export Conference. The conference, whi... Read more.
Legally Armed: November 2018
In my previous article, I reviewed the U.S. Government’s proposed rules to transition most firearms and ammunition away from the controls of the U.S. Departme... Read more.
Legally Armed: October 2018
On May 24, 2018, the U.S. Government announced its intent to transition most firearms and ammunition away from the export controls of the Department of State to... Read more.
Legally Armed: August 2018
he following article is taken from a Reeves & Dola (www.reevesdola.com) alert published on March 20, 2018, authors Johanna Reeves and Katherine Heubert.
In the ... Read more.
Legally Armed: June 2018
n 1934, Congress passed the Foreign-Trade Zones Act (19 U.S.C. §§81a-81u) (as amended, the “FTZ Act”) to stimulate economic growth and development in the ... Read more.
