Proposed Rule Change for ITAR

[Wendell]

http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2...r-rule-change/

[BigT]

Damn I hope so

[Nocturnalis Discipulo]

I believe this rule change been proposed 3 or 4 times now and every time a shooting has occurred to derail it, Ryan Cleckner talked about it on his podcast.

This would certainly be a big boost to small FFLs.

[OlongJohnson]

They really need to straighten out the Obama overreach that declares all gunsmithing is manufacturing. There was at least 50 years of case law, not just administrative opinions, providing an unambiguous test of whether certain gunsmithing tasks were manufacturing or not. Obama's BATFE simply ignored that fact, pretending it simply didn't exist, when it made the new ITAR rules in 2016.

[joshs]

They really need to straighten out the Obama overreach that declares all gunsmithing is manufacturing. There was at least 50 years of case law, not just administrative opinions, providing an unambiguous test of whether certain gunsmithing tasks were manufacturing or not. Obama's BATFE simply ignored that fact, pretending it simply didn't exist, when it made the new ITAR rules in 2016.

In fairness to ATF, they didn’t change their definition of “manufacturing,” DoS DDTC simply choose to ignore that definition for purposes of the AECA/ITAR.